Round and Round

Catherine Bertola creates installations, objects and drawings that respond to particular sites, collections and historic contexts. Underpinning the work is a desire to look beyond the surface of objects and buildings, to uncover forgotten and invisible histories of places and people, as a way of reframing and considering the past. Exhibitions have included; Sad Bones, Workplace Gallery Gateshead UK; To be forever known, Brontë Parsonage Museum Haworth, UK; Acts of Making, Crafts Council UK touring show; Silences, Nässjö Konsthall, Nässjö, Sweden and Temple Gallery Philadelphia, USA; Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design New York, USA; From Trash to Treasure, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, and Shake before Using, Artium Vitoria Gastiez, Spain. Bertola has worked on commissions for National Museum Wales Cardiff, UK, V&A London, UK, The Government Art Collection, National Trust and Crafts Council UK. She has work in several public and private collections and is represented by Workplace Gallery, Gateshead and M+R Fricke, Berlin.