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.

© Catherine Watling 2008