catherine or kate

We are Catherine or Kate, visual artists from Brisbane, Australia. We  have been working collaboratively since 2008. We have recently returned from a residency at Skaftell Centre of Art in Iceland and are extremely excited about facilitating a project that brings some of the work we encountered during this time to Australia.

This work will be shown at Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane from May 9th-26th, 2012. The exhibition looks at notions of sea-faring, travel and humour and responds to our time in Iceland as part of a residency at Skaftfell Centre of Visual Art. Central to the exhibition is the work of Ásgeir Emilsson (1931-1999), long-term resident of Seyðisfjörður.


Ashtray made from aluminium can and photograph, courtesy Skaftfell Art Centre.

The youngest of twelve siblings Geiri worked as a fisherman and in his spare time made works from aluminium cans and cigarette packaging. This exhibition will be the first showing of Ásgeir’s work outside of his home town Seyðisfjörður.

Artists exhibiting alongside Geiri’s work are:

aiPotu, NORWAY


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aiPotu is a collaboration between the artists Anders Kjellesvik (b.1980) and Andreas Siqueland (b.1973). Anders & Andreas met at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen in 2004 and have since been working together making travel related projects. Aipotu were last in Australia for the 2008 Sydney Biennale.

Paul Harrison & John Wood, UK


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Paul Harrison (b.1966) and John Wood (b.1969) have been working collaboratively since 1993 producing single screen and installation based video works. The work investigates the relationship between the human figure and architecture, developed through short form video (20 seconds – 3 minutes) with particular emphasis on actions being formulated and resolved within a given duration. They have exhibited widely, have work in numerous public and private collections (including MOMA, NY: Tate, London: Centre Pompidou, Paris), and are represented by galleries in London, Lisbon, Basel, Paris and Naples.

Joseph Breikers, AUSTRALIA


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Joseph Breikers (b.1983) is a Brisbane based artist and founding co-director of Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space. Breikers work for this exhibition has been derived from his time spent in Skagaströnd, Iceland (the home of Hallbjorn Hjartarson, The Icelandic Cowboy). During his time in Skagaströnd Breikers explored the image of the slouching cowboy or outlaw.

Catherine or Kate, AUSTRALIA


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Catherine Sagin (b.1986) and Kate Woodcroft (b.1987) have been working collaboratively since 2008. Catherine or Kate are the curators of the exhibition and will also be exhibiting alongside the aforementioned artists.