IN PRINT 2020 Resident - Catherine MacDonald
Catherine is a printmaker from Whanganui, and has a month long printmaking residency at the Caselberg House. During this time she will be working in the Brasch Studio at the house.
Biography
Catherine Macdonald was born in Whanganui New Zealand . She studied Fine Arts at Whanganui Regional Polytechnic and graduated in 1997 with a BFA majoring in Printmaking. Her practice has branched out to include printmaking (mainly drypoint, woodcut, letterpress), bookbinding, drawing, writing and furniture making. In 1998 she was Community Artist in Residence for the Community Arts Council Wanganui ,and she partook in residencies in 1999 at Pompallier in Russell and 2017 at The Art Vault, Mildura, Australia. She has worked in the Museum/Gallery fields and more recently has been employed as a draft person in an architectural firm.
2010 she was the Open Award winner, in the Whanganui Arts Review, Sarjeant Gallery, with the work A Place Where Things Really Happen and in 2020 her work Just a Moment, won the Article & Money Poppins Excellence Award in the Whanganui Arts Review. In 2003 she was commissioned to design and hand print the cover for Real Life Bird Song published by Wai-te-Ata Press, V.U.W. In 2014 she produced the cover for a book of poetry by Airini Beautrais Dear Neil Roberts, published by VUP. She has had articles published in Imprint, The Journal of the Print Council of Australia and Printmaking Today, UK. She was a founding Trustee of the Whanganui Artists Open Studios Event, and a committee member of the Whanganui Literary Festival.
She exhibits throughout New Zealand and her work is held in the public collections of the Sarjeant Gallery in New Zealand, State Library of Victoria and the Print Council of Australia and private collections in New Zealand, Australia and Europe.
Artist’s statement
Dunedin isn't a place I know well, I was last here nearly 20 years ago and then only briefly. I remember stone buildings, a great public art gallery and losing a scarf. I'm looking forward to getting to know the place better.
I'm excited to be located out on the peninsula and all the wildlife it contains, and shall be packing plenty of sketchbooks.
I work mainly using drypoint, scratching into aluminium plates, it's an intaglio technique, quite an immediate process that doesn't require too many chemicals. It will be a treat to get to spend uninterrupted time making, free from the distractions of daily life. My work often is a reaction to with what is going on around me so it'll be interesting to see what results from a new environment.
Learn more about Catherine:
website: www.catherinemacdonald.co.nz
blog: catherinemacdonaldnz.wordpress.com
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catherinemacdonaldartist/