2023 BC Applied Art + Design Award Recipients Compilation Film. (courtesy of GAB Films + BCAF)
BC achievement art exhibition
November 16 - 22, 2023
Roundouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre, Vancouver, BC
“I could elucidate my work as “Five ‘n Dime meets haute couture” — an ongoing challenge to transform the discarded in pursuit of a fine line where garish and alluring vacillate.”
civilization rebooted
FaveLAB’s 14 day Artist Residency in Athens, Greece, 2023.
Having walked the ancient pilgrimage road, Iera Odos (The Sacred Way) from Kerameikos Burial Grounds in Athens to Elefsina, I documented and collected littered debris for use as art material.
Once a sacred procession that marked the most famous secret religious rite of ancient Greece, the Eleusinian Mysteries, the road today is largely buried by suburban streets and industry.
The works in progress from the plastics I collected along Iera Odos are a culmination of a story told today underlaid by the Greek myths of yesterday.
Image: Box ring made of street debris, Athens, Greece.
Bridget Catchpole, 2023
“Taking on issues ranging from decay and waste to consumerism and the environment, Catchpole creates striking visual objects that attract our attention while making us think about the world we have made.”
animal, vegetable, mineral
contemporary jewellery exhibition of nordic bridges
january 28 - february 25, 2023
galerie noel guyomarc’h
montreal, QC
september 21 - november 20, 2022
harbourfront centre
Toronto, ON
“By turning [plastic] into ornaments for the body and for life, Catchpole shifts our perspective towards a poetry of possibility, a reconstruction of these materials through art, deeply emotional as it may be.”
Dear, what have you done with Nana’s Pearls?
In 2022, Nana’s Pearls was one of thirty-three contemporary jewellery and objects accepted in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts donated by Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h and Stephane Blackburn.
“To wear a Catchpole piece, created with a figurative open hand, is to wear an emblem of compassionate benevolence; for oneself, for humanity, and for the environment.”
Sculpture & Jewellery Collections
Stages of healing
Still the ocean sounds the same
Paysage de l’intime
Collected work
Past work