Catherine Roe

My interests and current practice lie within the landscape genre, using the notion of the sublime as a backdrop or stage to perform and interplay domestic objects. There is a strong element of colour, performance and lighting in my work.

I am interested in the original magic of photography’s medium where the camera can suspend time so that gestures, movements and objects are apprehended at a moment where the human eye cannot arrest them.

My work is inspired by artists such as Sian Bonnell, Dan Holdsworth, Edgar Martins, Gregory Crewdson, and Julia Fullerton- Batten.

1-2 A selection of images from the series ‘Linda’s Garage’, 2008

The series of photographs reveal inanimate objects kept hidden away in a garage, in a new light. With a sculptural element to them, the objects become almost unfamiliar.

3-10 A selection of images from the series ‘Catharsis’, 2009

‘Catharsis’ refers to the purging of emotions or relieving of emotional tensions. The series addresses physical and psychological states, particularly the inner tensions and emotional dynamics of adolescence and growing up. It also addresses bodily functions and religious, sexual, universal, cultural, social, and emotional symbolism.

The series explores transitional states such as twilight, puberty and adulthood, life and death, the divine and profane, movement and stillness, the conscious and unconscious, the dreaming and waking brain.