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6. Tree mandala h152xw244cm diptych Jan 2020 by Catherine Cassidy

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CATHERINE

A thousand words.

I’m looking for something unknown yet familiar, resonators and signifiers of landscape. I like taking one particular form and investing it with qualities that may seem to belong to something else.

Exhibitions.

Music gallery.

If there was ever a truly universal language, I believe music occupies that spot. Below are some photos taken during a recent recording session I was privileged to sit in on.

Nature gallery.

I have always found time in the wild to be comforting and refreshing. Inspiration abounds at every corner in the great outdoors.

Working on a small Ironbark Series on seductive wo

Working on a small Ironbark Series on seductive wood panels on Dja Dja Wurrung country in Victoria. I was born in these parts and I can feel old dry forest memory kicking in. For me these panels allow me to manipulate paint for ages without the surface getting tired. Magic stuff. #catherinecassidy #artistsoninstagram #paintingonwood #collageonwood #collage #landscapepainting #australianartist #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting

I am very lucky to be supported by two wonderful g

I am very lucky to be supported by two wonderful galleries. Defiance Gallery Sydney @defiancegallery and AKBellinger Gallery Inverell @akbellingergallery . An artist can take great strides when someone has their back. I am very grateful for their encouragement and the opportunities they offer and to be amongst artists I really admire. #catherinecassidy #artistsoninstagram #australianartist #abstractionist #abstraction #landscapepainting #contemporypainting #contemporaryart

See me and my work in Amber Creswells beautiful ne

See me and my work in Amber Creswells beautiful new book AUSTRALIAN ABSTRACT. Published by Thames and Hudson. @thamesandhudsonau You can get yourself an early copy now by hitting up the link @amber_creswell_bell . Read about this country’s amazing , generative and varied abstract artists. Has there actually ever been a book on contemporary Australian abstract artists? Well there sure is now and way overdue is what I say. My response to landscape is visceral and runs animal deep. It’s way bigger than I am. Yesterday I was working deep in Dja Dja Wurrung country in my bush studio. The silence is deafening in the bush and the desert and I crave it. It expands and clears my mind. I love the stillness, lack of clamour, lack of voices. I’m constantly looking for the Other Thing, the tricky, elusive non- forms which come from the very inside of things. They run up via mistakes and experiments and I lie in wait and ambush them as they come in very fast from the forming work. I see my job as finding something powerful and primal that connects both you and me to the natural world. I’ll never ever understand it nor want to. This is ABSTRACTION. #catherinecassidy #artistsoninstagram #australianartist #landscapepainting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting

Absolutely thrilled to be a featured artist in the

Absolutely thrilled to be a featured artist in the new publication AUSTRALIAN ABSTRACT by arts writer Amber Creswell Bell. Its a beautiful thoughtful, production published by Thames and Hudson and is published on March 28th ( but you can order your very own copy right now via the link @amber_creswell_bell ) The thoughts and practice of each artist are generously and sensitively outlined with a warm and accessible text for each artist. And, of course fabulous images. I am honoured to be amongst what I consider Australia’s best artists working within abstraction. Congratulations to Amber @amber_creswell_bell the publisher @thamesandhudsonau and all the wonderful Australian artists within.

Get thee to Defiance Gallery to see the last week

Get thee to Defiance Gallery to see the last week of Defiances stable of artists all together in Defiance 2023- the best of Australia’s contemporary artists if I do say so myself. You won’t see work like this anywhere else- risk takers, work driven by individual vision not market forces.. in other words the real deal. You’ll feel it as soon as you walk in. This work of mine on wood panel is titled Night Road. Small and strong. @defiancegallery #catherinecassidy #australianartist #artistsoninstagram #landscapepainting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart

This painting ‘Standing’ ( from my memories of

This painting ‘Standing’ ( from my memories of the giant anthills of the Gulf Country) can be viewed with 2 other works of mine now in the wonderful exhibition DEFIANCE 2023. .. the first show of the year embracing their gallery artists. Get along tomorrow before you miss out! You know where it is.. right in the middle of everything at Mary Place Paddington. @defiancegallery #catherinecassidy #australianartist #australianpainter #landscaoe #abstraction #artistsoninstagram #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting

Details of some recent Works on Paper. WOPs hold s

Details of some recent Works on Paper. WOPs hold something special in their often mute, withholding nature. There’s always something inexplicable in hurriedly made, simple responses. Historically valued by collectors for their otherworldly, ephemeral nature, works on paper open up parts of the artist’s secret world. We barely understand their conception ourselves. This is the coalface. We are often reluctant to let them go, holding on to that strange, generative place for dear life. However, when they do pop up, they offer a great, affordable entry point to collecting… affordable and easy to hang. #catherinecassidy #australianartist #artistsoninstagram #worksonpaper #landscapepainting #abstraction #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart

Night Road. The magnificent Defiance Gallery Paddi

Night Road. The magnificent Defiance Gallery Paddington steps into 2023 with their fabulous SUMMER SHOW. This small one is one of three of mine in this gorgeous collective exhibition of Defiance artists. It’s a great opportunity to see the gallery’s stable of artists in one exhibition and I’m honoured to be amongst artists of this calibre- some of Australia’s finest. Do not miss. Opening Feb 11th. @defiancegallery #catherinecassidy #australianartists #australianartistsoninstagram #artistsoninstagram #landscapeartist #abstraction #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart

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