Catherine
Watling is an artist specialising in inter-disciplinary collaboration
with a special interest in art/science research. Her work predominantly
focuses on the alternative use of digital tools to create interactive
experiential environments, films and web-based artworks.
Current
works in development include Minutiae ,a collaboration with Cardiff
University Micropalaeontologist Professor Paul Pearson. Their muse the
beautiful collection of single-celled microfossils foraminifera, whose
intricate structures reveal hidden secrets of evoltion and allude to
the origins of complex life on earth. Works in progress for this project
included Minutiae 01 - a series of stereogrammes and a site specific
projection at fo.am Brussels in 2003 and Minutiae Tree an interactive
installation at the 2Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Dec 2006.
Interdisciplinary
projects include Kilwa, a dual-screen film exploring the intersection
between art, science and archaeology resulting from a period as attached
artist at the Kilwa Archaeological Survey 2003, Tanzania, Africa, 1000
words - a video artwork exploring how personal choice is communicated
by disabled young people and The White Canary - an installation/play
exploring the Antarctic experience.
Catherine
is regularly involved with community based arts projects and runs workshops
based on the creative use of technology with children, the elderly and
people with physical and learning difficulties.