Catherine Street is a visual artist based in Scotland.
Contact: catherinestreet[at]hotmail[dot]com
PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2012
Human Race – Inside the History of Sports Medicine, various venues across Scotland
2011
AXA in Action performance festival, Prague, Czech Republic
cabin:codex, DJCAD Visual Research Centre, DCA, Dundee, curated by Sophia Hao and David Faithfull
Sounds from the next room, collaborative exhibition with Kate Temple, Gladstone’s Land, Edinburgh
Dark Waters, group exhibition, Station Project, Platform Arts Gallery, Belfast
Never or Now performance festival, Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen, Norway
2010
Group show, Number 35 Gallery, New York, curated by Gavin Morrison, Atopia Projects
Sweat Lodge, group show, Transmission, Glasgow
Screening of video work from Scotland, Seltsimaja community house, Tallinn, Estonia
Represented at Supermarket Art Fair, Sweden by X-RAY at the Perseverance
2009
Scottish Arts Council artists’ bursary for research (31st January 2009-31st January 2010).
Reading of Pendulum, Lady Gaby’s Wonderbar, Kreuzberg, Berlin, an evening of performance also featuring Ruth Barker
Installation and Performance with Wounded Knee, Warehouse of Horrors, Studio Warehouse, Glasgow
Residency at the Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Dalcrombie, Inverness-shire
X-RAY, screening of artists’ film and video at the Perseverance, London
2008
Concrete Shadows, group show with Kate Davis, Ines Schaber and Lucy Skaer, The Changing Room, Stirling, Scotland
Caravan of Horrors, group video screening in conjunction with Fools in Print launch, the Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
… Collaborative performance and installation event with Anna Copland, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
EmergeD at Brunnenstrasse 185, performance and video event with Agnes Nedregard, Berlin
2007
Your words and my mouth, performance and installation, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland
Edinburgh’s Death Space and the Word’s, performance and tour with Anna Copland, part of Edinburgh Art Festival
Unknown Purposes and Characteristics: work in progress, Stills, Edinburgh
Build a Room, an evening of live performance with Agnes Nedregard and Aileen Campbell at Stills, Edinburgh.
Artist in Residence 2007/2008, Stills, Edinburgh
I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real, solo show, The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Scotland
2005
Performance and installation in two venues at the Kirkgate Shopping Centre, Leith, EmergeD at the Leith Festival
Aurora, installation of drawings and wall drawing at EXTENSION at the Glasgow Art Fair
Group show, Forever and a Day Büro, Berlin
Don’t make love to an owl drink Cresswell’s Pineapple Juice, group show with Joep van Liefland, Andrew Gilbert and Tine Furler, 5 Neuerbahnhof Strasse, Berlin
PUBLICATIONS
Gnommero, collection of artists’ writings, 2010
Art & Text, edited by Aimee Selby, Blackdog publishing, 2009
Collage, edited by Blanche Craig, Blackdog publishing, 2008
Catherine Street, with text by Ruth Barker, Stills, 2008
I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real, exhibition catalogue, The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, 2006
STATEMENT
Catherine Street’s practice is extremely diverse and incorporates drawing, collage, writing, performance, video and installation. Her approach to making work is an experimental one and the presentation of different pieces of work in various formats is important to her practice; individual objects, performances, images and writing can be combined, used and re-used in different ways for different purposes and contexts. Much of Street’s performance work has involved using her own body as a static element within an installation. However, as writing becomes more prominent within her practice, and the interface between language and body is highlighted, she is currently interested in the problem of presenting writing through live performance whilst maintaining a focus on the body.
Much of Street’s work is underpinned by an interest in the meaning of destruction and fragmentation as well as the contrasting realms of language and the visceral experience of the body. Her focus on the colliding themes of language and physical experience has recently led her to take an interest in the area of mind, agency and free will.
LINKS
People
Ben Ewart-Dean – Film-maker based in Glasgow
Ruth Barker – Visual artist based in Glasgow
Lyndsay Mann – Visual artist based in Edinburgh
Wounded Knee – A’cappella/Folk/Trance
Clom – An Irishman living in Leith
Organisations and Projects
Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Dalcrombie, Scotland
