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Catherine Parsonage

MA work

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    Oil on gesso board

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    Steel, hard expandable foam and spray paint

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    oil on canvas

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I am sealed into a polymer sphere, crawling up walls reaching for momentum in the rush of thought to clamber all the way to the top. Sweating, rosy cheeked and nauseous from the exertion I realise I'm upside down and fall, I am sure dogged perseverance will out but I am so involved in this monotony that the memory of its origin and conclusion has dissipated. There must be something of mine in this bludey ball, something that I have ownership of, even if it is my own madness. My struggle is not madness but the impressing versatility of the task, and I know I will remain here turning in the same space within the same parameters, in the knowledge that I can neither win nor lose, and who could tell if I'd prefer one strain or the other would we be so deliciously happy if we reached our desired destination, answers flicker propelling themselves with us on their backs into possibility.

Programme
Painting

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  • Catherine Parsonage profile image

  • MA Degree

    School

    School of Humanities

    Programme

    MA Painting, 2013

  • I am sealed into a polymer sphere, crawling up walls reaching for momentum in the rush of thought to clamber all the way to the top. Sweating, rosy cheeked and nauseous from the exertion I realise I'm upside down and fall, I am sure dogged perseverance will out but I am so involved in this monotony that the memory of its origin and conclusion has dissipated. There must be something of mine in this bludey ball, something that I have ownership of, even if it is my own madness. My struggle is not madness but the impressing versatility of the task, and I know I will remain here turning in the same space within the same parameters, in the knowledge that I can neither win nor lose, and who could tell if I'd prefer one strain or the other would we be so deliciously happy if we reached our desired destination, answers flicker propelling themselves with us on their backs into possibility.

  • Degrees

  • BA, Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2011; BTEC, Art & Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2009

  • Exhibitions

  • RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London, 2012–3; Work in Progress, Royal College of Art, London, 2012; Saatchi New Sensations, Bloomsbury House, London, 2011; BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, 2011

  • Awards

  • Winner, Basil Alkazzi Scholarship, 2011–13; Selected, Catlin Prize, 2011

  • Conferences

  • "How to do a Professional Critical Practice Talk", Manchester Metropolitan University, 2013; 'Artist Talk', Artist Talk & Crit MA Students, Kingston University, 2013; 'How to do a Professional Critical Practice Talk', Manchester Metropolitan University, 2012

  • Publications

  • 'Young British Artists 2.0', Alex Needham, The Guardian, 2012; Catlin Guide, Justin Hammond, 2011; 'Experience New Sensations', Think-Work-Play, 2011; BP Portrait Award 2011, Alison Weir, 2011

Registered Office: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU