Louise Cattrell

London
The sensibility we use to explore landscape as an ideal, a place of imagination and fantasy is combined with my direct experience of the natural landscape.This dichotomy between experience and imagination has been central to the development of my work . Direct connection and knowledge of landscape reacts to the spectacular changes within the timescale of day, season and year. The importance of physical scale from the limitless infinity of the sky to the enclosure of forest and wood ,the eye moving from the panoramic to that of close scrutiny.This has particular resonance where the borders of sky, land and river converge and depart. Living and working in new and known places has formed the context for paintings in oil and watercolour ,drawings and prints. strong>Influences
Aesthetic/Formal Concerns, Landscape
Areas of work
Exhibiting
Lecturing
Residencies
Collections
Scottish Arts Council, Collection
Gracefield Permanent Collection, Dumfries
Phoenix Assurance Company, Tel Aviv
Coopers and Lybrand Deloitte, London
Frances and Denise Booth
Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, London
Reuters
Qualifications and training
1983 - MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London
1980 - Post Diploma Fine Art (Highly Commended), Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
1979 - Diploma Fine Art, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
Solo exhibitions
2010 - Reflect Land, The Gallery Winchester Discovery Centre, Jewry St Winchester
2009 - North to South, Black Swan Arts, Frome Somerset
2007 - Sylvan, Northern Print Gallery, Stepney Bank Newcastle
2003 - Paintings Louise Cattrell, Owen Taylor Gallery, The Hunting Lodge, Warwick Castle, Warwickshire
2000 - Recollect, Anderson Stewart, London
1999 - Coast, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
1998 - Coast, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed
1998 - Coast, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1998 - Coast, Queen's Hall, Hexham
1998 - Fellowship Exhibition, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed
1996 - Louise Cattrell:Paintings 1989/1996, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1995 - Paintings and Drawings, Oriel, 31 Newtown, Powys
1993 - Paintings and Drawings, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
1992 - Paintings, Beaux Arts, Bath
1985 - Paintings and Drawings, Peterborough City Art Gallery
Group exhibitions
2008 - Open West Midlands 08, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
2007 - The Birmingham Open, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery,Gas Hall, Birmingham
2006 - Drawing Breath-10 years of the Jerwood drawing prize, the gallery, Wimbledon College of Art, London
2006 - Impress:Contemporary printmaking from Leicester Print Workshop, Ropewalk Gallery, Barton-upon-Humber
2006 - Objects in Waiting, End Gallery, Psalter Lane campus, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield
2006 - what do people do all day?, Birmingham Artists, The Mailbox, Birmingham
2005 - All is Leaf, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh
2005 - Images from North Mayo, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co Mayo
2004 - Magic within Reason, Domo Baal, London
2003 - Drawing Parallels, The Waterhall, Birmingham City Art Gallery, Birmingham
2000 - A Different Kind of Show, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2000 - Artfutures, Contemporary Art Society, London
1999 - Littoral, Maritime Museum, Exeter
1999 - Paint Land Beauty, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland
1999 - Watermarks with Sian Bowen, Customs House, South Shields
1998 - International Artists, National Gallery, Sri Lanka
1998 - Plein Air, City Art Gallery, Targovishte
1998 - Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1997 - Berwick Gymnasium Summer Show, Berwick Barracks, Berwick upon Tweed
1996 - Whitechapel Open, London
1995 - Hunting Group Prizes, Royal College of Art, London
1994 - Post Decadence, Cafe Gallery, London
1994 - Rexel Derwent Drawing Open, Cheltenham
1994 - Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1993 - Mixed Show, Salama-Caro, London
1993 - Oriel Mostyn, Open, Wales
1992 - Artists Choice, Flowers, East London
1992 - Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1990 - Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1989 - Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1988 - Royal Academy, London
1988 - Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1982 - New Contemporaries, ICA, London
Residencies
2008 - Imaging the Land International Research Institute, Fowlers Gap/Ochre House, N/A
2008 - Research Fellow ILIRI, COFA,University of NSW, Sydney,Australia, Fowlers Gap Research Station ,NSW,Australai
2003 - Escovaric fellowship, Ecole Cantonale du Valais Sierre, Switzerland
2001 - Ballinglen Fellowship, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co Mayo, Ireland
2000 - Landscape residency, Martha's Vineyard, USA
1998 - International Artists Workshop, British Council, Sri Lanka
1998 - International Artists Workshop, Targovishte, Bulgaria
Public commissions
2006 - Leukaemia Centre, QE2 Hospital, Birmingham
2004 - 4 large paintings, Ministry of Defence, Whitehall, London
Competitions, prizes and awards
2008 - Arts Council England artists award, ILIRI residency and North to South, Black Swan Arts, Australia and Somerset
2007 - The Living North Purchase Prize, Northern Print Gallery, Newcastle Northumberland
2006 - AA2A, School of art and design, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton
2005 - Mezzotint Masterclass with Katsunori Hamanishi, Northern Print, North Shields
2002 - AA2A printmaking, Coventry School of Art and Design, England
1998 - Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Berwick Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed
1993 - Cheltenham Drawing Award , Rexel Derwent Drawing Open, University of Gloucester, Cheltenham
1983 - John Minton Award, Royal College of Art, London
1980 - Farquhar Reid Award, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
1979 - Adam Bruce Thomson, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1979 - Scottish Education Dept Travelling Award, Duncan of Jordanstone college of Art, Dundee
1978 - Hospitalfield Scottish Art College Summer Residencies, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland
Educational experience - tertiary
1995 - Part-time Lecturer, Access, Portsmouth
1993 - Part-time Lecturer, Foundation, Central Saint Martins
1992 - Artist, Talks, Hayward Art Gallery
1991 - Artist, Workshops Talks, Camden Arts Centre
1989 - Artist, Workshops Talks, Whitechapel Art Gallery
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