Cath Campbell

Cath Campbell makes sculpture, drawing and large scale architectural interventions, which attempt to reinvent our associations with the built environment. Working with engineers, architects, and fabricators, Campbell’s public interventions often subtly re-order existing materials within urban space and buildings to create works that are visually tense and deliberately disorientating. This area of Campbell’s practice extends to working collaboratively with other artists, creating text works that question their own social and political environment, and architectural structures that deliberately cross a line into design. This strategy is complemented by a series of drawings on paper and in steel of real and invented architectural spaces. The works on paper are palimpsest-like and are often inspired by plans for buildings that are inaccessible The drawings borrow their titles from sentimental pop songs such as All I Need Is The Air That You Breathe… or If You Leave Me Now and imply that architecture could be used as a metaphor for states of being. This tenuous relationship between object and subject locates Campbell’s practice in an ambiguous territory between profundity and self-parody.