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The First Five

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The First Five - Catherine Ross

The First Five 

Past work by artist and sculptor Catherine Ross

This exhibition consists of two distinct parts – sculptures of rocking horses and huge three-metre drawings she made in a process involving paper and steel plates. All the works were made in the 1980’s – the drawings between ’82 and ’85 and ’89. Two drawings are from her days at the Banff School of Fine Arts while others were created while at Dalhousie University in Halifax. They reflect on the places she was living at the time with the Banff efforts being highly concentrated, almost claustrophobic in nature. The Dalhousie-era works are more reflective of the seascape of the East Coast, open with distinct horizons.

The rocking horses, with their sharp edges and animated stances, are not the kind people would associate with childhood. But they do give people the chance to reflect back on a part of their lives they have long since left behind. “I didn’t want to make carousel horses. I wanted something that was on the edge and modern and contemporary.” She also wanted the works to allude to childhood but with their distinct layers and edges, she wanted to show the reality of life.

The rocking horses have all played a role in her personal life. One with two horses together has been a fixture for several years in the living room of Savill Group Architecture owner John Savill. The sculpture has one horse slightly ahead of the other, suggesting a competition but as Ross points out, people sitting on them would have to rock in unison to get the piece rocking.

As an artist, Ross tries to keep her sculptures simple and readily accessible to a wide audience. “In the ’70s and ’80s, art was intimidating for some people. It was confusing. I didn’t want to produce work like that. I wanted to keep it simple.”

– excerpt form Lethbridge Herald article, 2001, written by Al Beeber

To watch a video about Catherine and her art and work at the University of Lethbridge, follow the link to YouTube

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Shows

  • 2022
    • Jeffrey Spalding - A Tribute.
    • Janice Rahn & Michael Campbell
    • Billy McCarroll - Recent Work
    • Colour & Connections
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  • 2021
    • IN THE SHADOW OF SUMMER
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  • 2020
    • O Death
    • Material Instincts: Ruminations on Motherhood and Craft
    • Studium
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  • 2019
    • Construct Counterpoint
    • askîy iskwew
    • This Apparent Magnitude
    • Salvage
    • Unruly Bodies II
    • Ghosts and Angels
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  • 2018
    • Art Becomes Nature
    • Occurrences
    • THE FIGURE in Relationship
    • Wer bist du?
    • That's not what I meant.
    • CORPUS PHILOSOPHORUM
    • I Reserve The Right
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  • 2017
    • From Away To
    • Return
    • Court Painter
    • IIKAAKIIMAAT
    • Underfoot: Domestic Abstraction
    • OLD BRICKS NEW TRICKS
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  • 2016
    • Collision of.....
    • Confined Landscapes: A Project From The Carceral Landscape
    • FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS
    • COURT PAINTER & THE POLITICAL ELITE
    • Interface
    • /GRENZE
    • Faltamos Fantasmas
    • Evan Peacock
    • Ecoscapes: envisioning science and ecology
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  • 2015
    • The Field of Appearances
    • (un)Desirables
    • Time... Place... People...
    • LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS
    • Half Pace
    • I Wish I Was A Little More Delicate
    • Inappropriate Intensities
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  • 2014
    • senselikeblueplace
    • The Study of Where is Near
    • The Entangled Argument
    • Liar Liar
    • Hoarder Tendencies
    • DICKENS!
    • Recent Acquisitions
    • MUTATIONS
    • MICROCOSM
    • Hobby Shop
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  • 2013
    • Bloodless & Boneless
    • Unity in Opposition
    • Three Women
    • Pablo's Grid / Drop Cloth Paintings
    • Principles of Nostalgia
    • M.E.D.I.U.M
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  • 2012
    • End of Time
    • All You Can Eat
    • Manufacturer
    • The Wandering Thought II
    • The Voice Reached Us
    • Debra Tisdale
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  • 2011
    • Paradise Lost
    • Nature As Culture
    • Architectural Drawing
    • Decoy
    • Iconographies
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  • 2010
    • Nouveau Frankenstein
    • Potemkin – Whole Sum of Its Parts
    • The Irreal and The Imaginary
    • Elyse Longair
    • At the other side of beyond
    • Walks in the Wood
    • Muster
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  • 2009
    • Come Through my Doorway
    • Fortuna
    • Triangulation
    • Membrane
    • New Works
    • Serendipity
    • Early Work
    • Dear Edward
    • These are for Science
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  • 2008
    • Abitation
    • Drawing Distance
    • Paper Fitting
    • Potluck
    • A Haphazard History
    • Portraits from the Hive
    • Leftovers
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  • ARCHIVE
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