A NEW show at Black Swan Arts, A Vocabulary of Making Revealed, by artist Cath Bloomfield features collagraph and collaged prints inspired by the human form and landscape. The show starts on Saturday 17th September and runs until Sunday 23rd October.
Cath Bloomfield explores colour, texture and narrative using the medium of collagraph and collage. Utilising textured and contrasting materials, she layers and constructs plates and stencils for printing. Inspired by landscape and the human figure, Cath utilises sculptural moments in her work as a visual exploration of internal ideas. The armoured female figures that feature in A Vocabulary of Making Revealed are a call from the abstract and the abstract shapes are a response. When presented together, the pieces engage in a conversation, sometimes in agreement and sometimes not.
Cath said, “I am an experimental artist. The process of my practice allows my work to evolve. Responding to the surrounding themes in my life, I want to question the formal presentation of two-dimensional work in the gallery space. Giving free rein to ideas often results in new and surprising directions. Print is a varied feast and I revel in the ongoing journey wherever this might take me.”
Cath studied sculpture and ceramics at Bath Spa University and multi-disciplinary printmaking at the University of the West of England. She has exhibited across the UK and is a regular exhibitor with the Cloth Road Arts Trail, Wylye Valley Art Trail and Somerset Art Works. Her work is held in private collections in the UK, Europe and United States.
A preview will take place on Friday 16th September from 6pm–8pm, everyone is welcome to come along.
Fans of Cath’s work can find out more about the ideas behind the exhibition in an informal artist’s talk on Saturday 15th October at 2pm in the Long Gallery, with curators Fiona Campbell and Judith Rogers. For further information, please visit www.blackswanarts .org.uk
