Catherine Jacobs is a London based Fine Art Photographer whose urban and rural photographic landscapes invite viewers to participate in a game of associations of physical sensations and interior emotional states. Emerging forms flicker at the end of a tunnel of darkness, like dusk or dawn in an unknown territory. Are you safe or uncomfortable? Enclosed or engulfed? Human or animal? Is this a horizon of flesh or feeling? (Cherry Smyth, Writer, Curator, poet, Florence Trust Catalogue 2003).
Created especially for the camera, the work is made from small-scale, temporary installations with no digital manipulation employed. Aesthetically, there is a play on scale where a tension prevails between the macro and the micro essence of the work. It is this push and pull between the everyday and the ethereal that tugs at our consciousness. (Alex Boyd, Exhibition Curator, Midlands Art Centre, 2005).
The work reflects the insights gained through Catherine’s established career in psychological research, giving her a unique perspective into the themes she explores. Her particular areas of interest are in attachment theory and the ways people relate to each other.
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Catherine Jacobs London United Kingdom 1970
Participation in residencies, photographic festivals and exhibitions form the central part of Catherine Jacobs’s artistic practice. In February 2006 she was selected as the Artist-in-Residence for the Barking, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust’s Viewfinder project. This is an innovative photographic project working with patients and staff of a large Cancer Ward to produce photographs of their favourite landscapes. Further recent involvements include Picture This, a charity auction in aid of War Child at the Oxo Tower and Bargehouse, London, with artists Sam Taylor-Wood and Damien Hirst. In 2005 Catherine staged a successful interactive solo exhibition of her ‘Uncertainties’ series at the public arts centre, mac, in Birmingham. She is currently exploring possibilities of touring this show.
From 2002-3 Catherine held a prestigious Florence Trust studio residency and participated in Fresh ART with the studio group. Her work has also been included in international photography festivals such as Photo LA, 11th Los Angeles Photographic Print Exhibition and the Herefordshire Photography Festival. Other galleries that have shown her work include ArtSway, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, Artco and Harris-Interiors. Artist-led exhibitions also form an important aspect of Catherine’s practice and involvements include shows with the London artist-networking group Vision In Art, Sense and Sensuality that toured five Shropshire Galleries and Re-union at the APT gallery. Catherine has a degree in psychology from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1988) and a BTEC National Certificate in Photography from City of Westminster College, London (1998).
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