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 I 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 my parallel career as a knowledge exchange Research Psychologist in which I translate academic findings on risk and resiliencies for how we cope with adversity. 

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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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