Catharine Salmon's art/research practice is diverse and centred on values-based installation, painting and writing. At the core of her work are environmental, political and societal questions and concerns, and connection with community. Salmon exhib...More
Catharine Salmon's art/research practice is diverse and centred on values-based installation, painting and writing. At the core of her work are environmental, political and societal questions and concerns, and connection with community. Salmon exhibits in publically funded galleries. She has presented papers at conferences on the efficacy of environmental art, the relational links between illness, compassion and wellbeing, and art and its power to communicate. Her most recent writing, 'Pukeko and Butter Papers: Reflections on an Environmental Art Practice' is a chapter in the book - 'Art & Future,' Cambridge Art Scholars Publishing (2018). The essay 'Circle of Compassion' was published in the Journal of Applied Arts and Health, UK (2016). In her environmental installation practice, Salmon works with constructed, found and commissioned forms, linking them variously with sound, light and text. The materials range widely and include bird wings, flower petals, domestic elements and painting. Her underlying intent is to re-contextualise everyday objects / places and familiar art forms to engage, connect and provoke. As an artist, Salmon is particularly interested in intertextuality and the way perceptions and imaginations are informed by what has been previously encountered. This has stimulated engagement with diverse and distinct aesthetic arenas and in regards to climate change, Op art, process art and still life modalities have come to the fore.
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