CATHERINE HARDING
Bio
Primarily self-taught, I work in a diverse range of art mediums and techniques including sculpture, drawing, painting and printmaking. My art themes are generally around investigating nature, the environment and re-engaging with traditional cultural artwork. My work often incorporates re-cycling or using natural materials.
I enjoy working in both traditional and digital media. My current art practice also incorporates a variety of crafts from designing clothes and accessories in fabric, to beadwork, wirework, paper engineering (3d cards, origami, kirigami), knitting, crochet, tatting, weaving, macramé, and eco-dyeing.
NATUS
Frog on Huon Pine
The sculpture above was made during lockdown in 2020 for a TAFE assignment titled unified assemblage. He is created from old electronic parts, bits of broken headphones, mobile phones, speakers and even an old camera. I love frogs so of course it was the first image that came to me when pondering at the pile of pieces on my desk. He is much more that a reconstruction though. He represents the broken things we throw casually away, to become landfill. What if those things could be re-created into something beautiful, made whole with a new purpose. What if this could be extended to how we feel about ourselves?  And so Natus was born. (Natus is latin for born). The Huon Pine he sits on is from Strahan in Tasmania. A trip we made 14 years ago and I could never quite work out what to use the wood for, until now, waiting for its creation to do it justice.