“Strung-Out”
Catherine Hockey
7 July → 22 July 2006

Strung-Out is a work made up geometric drawings rendered with cords and rope anchored to the walls and floor of the gallery, at various points, with hooks and other fastenings. The drawn forms aim to play with the viewer’s perception of forms in space. The 2-dimensional forms appear 3-dimensional, forms overlap and unfold and there is a play with direction and trajectories of planes and line. The viewer’s eye can become busy following a line. My inspiration comes from construction sites, cranes on the skyline, frameworks created by scaffolding, formwork held in place by supports, concrete skeletons of buildings in progress, and the final large geometric structures that are the buildings. While my work tends be drawn from the cityscape they are not representative of any particular place or thing, yet they are recognizable as forms we see everyday.

Catherine Hockey is currently undertaking Masters of Fine Arts at VCA. In 2005, she completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Arts at VCA and was awarded the National Gallery Women’s Association Postgraduate Encouragement Award.

Her work is held in collections at the New England Regional Art Museum in Armidale NSW, UWS – Nepean and private collections in Australia and overseas.