Catherine Chick
Catherine completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University Of Tasmania School Of Art in 2009 and is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art and Design through course work. Her practice is diverse and ranges from taxidermy to performance with a little bit of everything in-between. Catherine has participated in several group shows and has been fortunate to work with Heather and Ivan Morison in Queenstown on their “Mr Clevver” project.
Queenstown is embedded in heritage. My Great Grandfather Jack Lees was a shift boss trapped at the 1000 foot level in the 1912 North Mt Lyell mining disaster. His heroic actions saved many others and resulted in the presentation of a Royal Humane Society Certificate for bravery; he died less than twelve months later as a result of the smoke and fume inhalation- ‘miners’ lung’. Every time I travel into Queenstown, I marvel at the harsh beauty of the landscape, the scar of the highway winding precariously into the township, the surrounding edifices of sheer granite that reflect so many different moods; to me everything about Queenstown is captivating. “The Bends” is a travelling tribute to the Lyell Highway. The Huon Pine flitch or waste edge was retrieved from Lake Gordon and milled in Queenstown, the road edging intertwined with surgical steel sutures, scars of containment. It is a landscape that I can introduce into other landscapes and capture created moments and memories.
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