Welcome to my website
I make ambiguous,  open-ended works in photography, painting and sculpture, that invite shared responses and dialogue.  

I've been a professional artist since 1999 and my work has been shown in institutions (including a solo show at the midlands arts centre), commercial galleries  (including Flowers Gallery, Sarah Mysercough Fine Art), at photo festivals  (Herefordshire Photography Festival,  Photo LA) and many artist-led spaces (Lewisham Art House, Whitstable Bienalle Satellite). I've also held residencies at the Florence Trust (2002-3), on a working sheep farm in Constable country (Rural Idyll? 2011) and in 2006 ran Viewfinder, a £10k landscape photography  residency for Redbridge NHS Trust working with patients of a cancer ward to revisit and photograph their favourite landscape scene in the UK.

I have an established, experimental studio artistic practice working in a hands-on way with  everyday materials such as glues, beauty products and household liquids.  The work develops bymoving between mediums, e.g. sculpture into photography; photography into painting.  My large-scale photography emerge from small-installations  and are shot on medium format film with no manipulation employed. My paintings are usually small-scale, textural and involve layering and eroding of layers over time. 

​The  artworks are informed by research papers from my parallel career as a Research Psychologist where I work with a team at Middlesex University assessing the impact  styles of relating,  experiences of care and abuse, severe life events and social deprivation. In that post knowledge exchange and translating academic findings into practice is the main aspect of my role. 

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Social Media

I use instragram as a kind of art sketch book for ideas and references  - I'm on www.instagram.com/catherine5524
I'm also on twitter at www.twitter.com/catherinejacob5 where I post psychology research and articles about activism that I'm engaged with. 

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