The International 3

Preview

24th June 6pm - 8pm

Exhibition Continues

25th June - 24th July 2005

Exhibition Opening Times

Thurs - Sun 12pm - 5pm

An interest in the traces we leave behind, and their use to recreate potential narratives is at the centre of Catherine Bertola’s work. Whether using graphite powder to highlight the overlapping of fingerprints on a domestic light-switch, Switched 1999, or the precise scoring around the leaves of embossed wallpaper decorating a disused flat in If walls could talk…2002, Bertola’s work brings the past to life.

In Domestic Landscapes, we see Bertola move away from found or prescribed physical locations as a trigger for her response, to a new body of work that results directly from a period of research into the history of Victorian domesticity. In the application of flock to a previously plain tea set, or in making white the gallery’s entrance step through a laborious cleaning and polishing process, we see Bertola make reference to this era’s very differing notions of ‘house-work’.

As an extension of the exhibition, a new publication, LOST NARRATIVES – The Work of Catherine Bertola, has been produced bringing together the last six years of the artists’ practice with accompanying essays by Judith Flanders, (Author of The Victorian House,published Harper and Collins 2003), Trevor Keeble (Head of School of Art and Design History and Course Director MA Design History – Kingston University), and Rachael Thomas (Senior Curator, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin).

LOST NARRATIVES is published by Art Editions North in association with Work & Leisure International and distributed through Cornerhouse Publications.

The International 3 is supported by Arts Council England.