Catherine Orr Suffolk, United Kingdom
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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

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Grass tamed, Cyanotype photogram, 2021

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Poppies, Cyanotype photogram, 2021

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Watching the wind in the marsh by the wood, Cyanotype photogram, 2021

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Llyn grasses, September , Cyanotype photogram, 2021

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Young bracken 1 & 2, Cyanotype photogram, 2021

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Hedge plants, winter, Cyanotype photogram, 2021

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Crested dog's tail, Cyanotype photogram, 2021

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Waving grass, winter 2022, Cyanotype photogram, 2022

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Pavement plants, Bernard's house, Cyanotype photogram, 2021

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Barley lines 132, Cyanotype photogram, 2022

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Winter grass, King's Forest, Cyanotype photogram, 2021

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Projects and exhibitions

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100 x 100 exhibition

01/03/2022 — 31/03/2022

BobCat Gallery, Online exhibition Details

The Art of Music

14/10/2021 — 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

PopUp PickUp

28/08/2021 — 29/08/2021

Lübecker Altstadtinsel, Lübeck, Germany Details

Aeonian magazine No 5

01/07/2021 — 31/07/2021

online due to Covid Details

Zanna magazine, Gold award

01/07/2021 — 31/07/2021

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International Festival of Experimental Photography 2021, Cyanotype & Anthotype month

01/03/2021 — 31/03/2022

I was selected as one of the final 9 artists selected from 321 works from 43 different countries.

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