Catherine Orr Suffolk, United Kingdom
Catherine has a first class degree in Photography from the University of Westminster. Disillusioned with Photoshop and filters, she began to work with the cyanotype photogram. An historic process, using iron salts, light and water, the cyanotype is an environmentally friendly printing method. Botanical specimens are collected from local spaces, seeds are returned: each print treads lightly.
Catherine Orr’s work celebrates the wild and wonderful world of plants. She arranges/disarranges nature and celebrates the variety and vitality of plants from her adopted county of Suffolk. Exploiting the confines of the cyanotype photogram, her prints record the movement of plants in the wind and the fleeting passage of sunlight over their leaves.
In her prints, as in nature, there is often botanical chaos: specimens are arranged haphazardly, leaves may be damaged, stalks bent, seeds and pollen spilled across the paper. Occasionally there is a restrained graphic order and simplicity where each plant is displayed more formally, a reminder of traditional garden cultivation and the imposition of human order on the wilderness.
Artwork
Criss cross, Cyanotype photogram, 2021
Grass tamed, Cyanotype photogram, 2021
Poppies, Cyanotype photogram, 2021
Watching the wind in the marsh by the wood, Cyanotype photogram, 2021
Llyn grasses, September , Cyanotype photogram, 2021
Young bracken 1 & 2, Cyanotype photogram, 2021
Hedge plants, winter, Cyanotype photogram, 2021
Crested dog's tail, Cyanotype photogram, 2021
Waving grass, winter 2022, Cyanotype photogram, 2022
Pavement plants, Bernard's house, Cyanotype photogram, 2021
Barley lines 132, Cyanotype photogram, 2022
Winter grass, King's Forest, Cyanotype photogram, 2021
Projects and exhibitions
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100 x 100 exhibition01/03/2022 — 31/03/2022 |
BobCat Gallery, Online exhibition | Details |
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The Art of Music14/10/2021 — 25/10/2021 A collaboration between the musician and film-maker, David Ian Bickley and Catherine Orr (the image is a still from the video, Moon Blue) |
King Street Arts, Lancaster | Details |
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PopUp PickUp28/08/2021 — 29/08/2021 |
Lübecker Altstadtinsel, Lübeck, Germany | Details |
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Aeonian magazine No 501/07/2021 — 31/07/2021 |
online due to Covid | Details |
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Zanna magazine, Gold award01/07/2021 — 31/07/2021 |
Online, due to Covid | Details |
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International Festival of Experimental Photography 2021, Cyanotype & Anthotype month01/03/2021 — 31/03/2022 I was selected as one of the final 9 artists selected from 321 works from 43 different countries. |
Online, due to Covid | Details |