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Catherine Phillips



The fragmented landscape of the limestone quarry of Provence and the built environment of the AndalucĂ­an white village street form the basis for interrogations into the perception of space, form and light.

Initially investigated with photography manipulated with the use of transparency and photomontage, spatial compositions are abstracted further through the media of print and drawing, exploring the relationships of figure/ground, presence/absence, solid/void, the notions of inside/outside and the concept of the edge or boundary.

The central questions that emerge are to do with the relationship between the perception of flatness and depth in two dimensions and its relationship to space in the field and boundary of the picture plane and beyond. The arising concern in the work is to do with the creation of something with fluctuating readings where there are paradoxical suggestions of opposing logic that simultaneously reinforce and deny tangible definition, with the idea of challenging any simple model of perceiving subject and perceived object.