Catherine Bell and Arts Project Australia artist, Cathy Staughton, aka The Two Cathies, have worked together on projects since The Portrait Exchange (2009), their first collaborative venture for APA. The creative partnership’s current project involves working exclusively with the infamous Boston Dynamics Robot ‘Spot’ during a six-month residency at RMIT Health Transformation Lab.
In the collaboration each artist performs as a muse for the other and their individual practices are strengthened. Broader contexts of intersectional feminism and social activism inform this method. Staughton paints portraits of Bell, and Bell produces video portraits to document their collaborative interaction. From this process, The Two Cathies produce separate artworks. For this collaboration, Staughton’s paintings and Bell’s videos are exhibited alongside each other and shown as one body of work.
For more information please visit the Getrude Glasshouse website.
Opening celebration
Date: Thursday 20 April
Time: 5 – 7pm
Location: Gertrude Glasshouse, 44 Glasshouse Road, Collingwood
Exhibition continues: Friday 21 April – Friday 20 May
