Catherine Elwes
Catherine Elwes | |
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Born | 1952 St Maixent |
Education | Slade School of Fine Art Royal College of Art |
Notable work | Menstruation II |
Style | Video art |
Catherine Elwes (born 1952) is a British artist, curator and critic working predominantly in the field of video art and a significant figure in the British feminist art movement.[1][2][3]
Early life
She was born in St Maixent, France.[4] She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and later graduated with an MA in Environmental Media from the Royal College of Art.[5]
Career
Elwes began working with video in the late 1970s.[citation needed] In 1979 she performed Menstruation II, a three-day performance at the Slade which lasted for the duration of a menstrual period.[6]
She co-curated the exhibitions Women’s Images of Men (with
Elwes’ video practice is archived at LUX online and REWIND.[1][9]
Elwes taught art for many years and was director of the early Digital Editing Research Programme at Camberwell College of Art in London.[10] She retired as Professor of Moving Image Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2017.[citation needed]
She now lives in Oxford.[3]
Notable artworks
- Menstruation II (1979), Slade College of Art
- Kensington Gore (1982)[11]
- The critic's informed viewing (1982)[12]
- First House (1986)[13][14]
- Post-card (1986)[15]
See also
External links
References
- ^ a b "Catherine Elwes". LUX Online. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ISBN 0953654109.
- ^ a b "Beyond Single Screen Programme". Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Luxonline". www.luxonline.org.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ "Catherine Elwes". www.ewva.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ISBN 086358179X.
- ISBN 0-905263-08-1.
- ISBN 978-1-84150-162-8.
- ^ "Catherine Elwes – Rewind". rewind.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Catherine Elwes | www.li-ma.nl". www.li-ma.nl. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ "Kensington Gore". LUX. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Elwes Works". www.ewva.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "The rise of the gallery retrospective". Apollo Magazine. 30 May 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "First House". LUX. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ISBN 978-0-86196-734-6.