Project description:
Select 12 of the freshest contemporary artists and offer them studio spaces in a Grade One listed Victorian Gothic church …The Florence Trust studios are unique in their commitment to the production and promotion of new work in a stunning and collaborative environment.
(Publicity leaflet, 2001).

Catherine Jacobs was one of 12 artists awarded a place on the prestigious Florence Trust annual studio residency programme in 2002.  During this successful year Catherine produced a new body of photographic work, participated in talks for business communities and represented the Trust in a solo show at the headquarters of ARC Marketing. The residency culminated in a Summer Exhibition, where her work was sponsored by John Jones and exhibited in their stunning box frames. 

ARC Marketing, Catherine Jacobs solo exhibition, 2003.
Two installation shots from the show at ARC Marketing Headquarters London, W6 are shown below. 

Fresh Art, 2003
Business Design Centre, Florence Trust artists also held a stand at Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, London where Catherine was selected by Artists Newsletter to a give talk on the Florence Trust Residency, with Director Rod McIntosh, for their Artist Professional Development (APD) Breakfast Talks Programme.                            

Summer Exhibition, curated by Cherry Smith
Catherine Jacobs invents a photographic language for interior psychological states with a cool slickness that inches towards stickiness (Summer Exhibition Press Release, Rod McIntosh, Director, Florence Trust, 2003).  For the Summer Exhibition Catherine showed eleven new works from Uncertainties, an ongoing series based on current psychological debates in attachment theory.  Recalling physical sensations and interiors states in the viewer, the works were exhibited as large scale, C-Type photographic prints. If you could photograph the feeling before a tear it would look like this. A welling up. A prickliness, Composure slipping over an edge. A nerve getting irritated, sand in a mussel before the pearl. Jacobs' powerful images resonate with a double-edged and subtle seduction below the eye, the heart, the muscle and sinew, just as pleasure itself brings fear of pleasure and fear of letting go.
(Cherry Smith, curator, Florence Trust Catalogue, 2003).