Cathy Carter New Zealand Photographer and Multimedia Artist
  • Art Awards (dropdown)
    • Molly Morpeth Painting and Drawing Competition 2023
    • Wallace Art Awards 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014
    • Devonian Reefs, Molly Morpeth 3D Award, 2020
    • Parkins Prize 2019
    • Headon International Portrait Competition Finalist 2015, 2016, 2018
    • Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards Finalist 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Series of Works
    • Almost Paradise, 2021
    • Goldilocks Zone 2022
    • Wai Wai Wai 2019
    • Weird Fishes, 2018
    • Poolside, Immersion and Emergence Malolo , 2017
    • Poolside Immersion and Emergence 2017
    • Waimarama, Residency: Waimarama, Reflecting on Water, 2018
    • Portals of Bare Attention 2016 / 2017
    • Waimarama, Reflecting on Water, Motu-O-Kura, 2018
    • Seaside Series 2016
    • Between Worlds
    • Oceanids: Rising
    • Oceanids # 1, 2, 3, 4
    • Drifting #1, 2, 3
    • Immersive Emergence
    • We Float
    • Viridescent -becoming green
    • Waitemata, 'Obsidian Waters' ( A public project)
    • Ophelia # 1, 2
    • Imminence
    • Immersion and Emergence
    • Adrift
    • Subtle Space
    • Mist
    • Zone of Immanence
    • Fluid Fields
    • Convergence
    • Sea Lion Rotation (light projection of stills)
    • Arpeggio ( Light projection of stills)
    • Arpeggio
  • Photos of Exhibited Work
    • Wai Wai Wai exhibition Nkb Gallery
    • Weird Fishes, 2018 Allpress Studio
    • Photoforum Exhibition 2018
    • Waitemata, Auckland Art Gallery
    • Arthaus Gallery 2017 Auckland Festival of Photography 2017, Theme: Identity. 2017 'Open Waters', (curated by Cathy Carter)
    • State of Play 2016
    • Oceanids , Paris Apartment.
    • Oceanids Rising 2016 Moaroom, Paris.
    • We Float 2014
    • Immersive Emergence 2013 (installation)
    • Imminence 2013
    • Zone Of Immanence 2012
    • Convergence 2012
    • Transitions 2012
    • Land vs Sea 2011 (Immersion and Emergence)
    • Mist 2010
    • Waterways 2012
    • Between Worlds
  • ABOUT
    • Curiculum Vitae (condensed)
    • Curiculum Vitae (expanded)
    • Profile
    • Contact: cathy.carter@xtra.co.nz
    • Press
    • Links
    • News
Masters Thesis
'Immersion Emergence' 
Masters of Visual Arts, Hons,  AUT University 2013

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https://openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/5978
AUCKLAND ART FAIR (Virtual) 2020
30th April -17th May, 2020
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PRESS
Published: Catalogues, Books

inSPIRACJE 12 BREATHTAKING
Between the Everyday and a Dream
published 2017 Lena Wicherkiewicz, Daria Grabowska ISBN 978-83-64629-61-7

https://contemporaryhum.com/calendar/cathy-carter-and-matthew-cowan-in-breathtaking-inspiracje-2017-curated-by-rob-garrett

Imago Mundi Luciano Benetton Collection 
New Zealand: Kiwi Consciousness Contemporary Artist from New Zealand
published 2016. Texts Carlo Antonio Biscotto, Rosa Mario Falvo, Andrew Paul Wood, Ngarino Ellis, ISBN 978-88-99657-28-4

The Exposure Award Portrait Collection (the 5th annual exposure award 2015)
curation and essay: William Etundi Jr Daria Brit Shapiro
REVIEWS
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Don Abbott , Wai Wai Wai reviewed for Art New Zealand/Spring 2019 Edition 171
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Nina Seja, Weird Fishes – Reviewed for PhotoForum
www.photoforum-nz.org/blog/2018/11/30/weird-fishes-reviewed

 Mareea Vegas, ‘Creative Flow’,  D-Photo Magazine,
www.dphoto.co.nz/blog/2017/9/29/creative-flow

Vivienne Haldane, ‘Wonderful Water’, Living Hawkes Bay
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/586d86fb59cc688e1a7f138b/t/5b7b62e588251bcb57674211/1534812970362/Muse_LivingHBay_Carter.pdf

'Contemporary HUM' is a central hub for Aotearoa arts abroad. We champion the international projects of New Zealand creative practitioners through publishing, events and projects.
https://contemporaryhum.com/calendar/cathy-carter-and-matthew-cowan-in-breathtaking-inspiracje-2017-curated-by-rob-garrett

Don Abbott , ART NEW ZEALAND #160 Summer/2016-2017, p49
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Donna Chisholm North & South Magazine, September 2016,
Issue 366 Family Ties 

www.pressreader.com/australia/north-south/20160901/281590944966750

Photo Forum May 23rd 2016
International Photo Festival a career boost for Cathy Carter
photoforum-nz.org/blog/?p=6645

Shooting to Success, The Hobson, June 2016.
issuu.com/thehobson/docs/the_hobson_june_16/21?e=0

International Recognition for Kiwi Photographer's ‘Idyia’,  D-Photo Magazine,
 http://www.dphoto.co.nz/photography-news-equipment-and-camera-reviews-and-tutorials-1/photography-news-6900/international-recognition-for-kiwi-photographers-idyia?rq=Cathy%20carter

Sophia Schön,  Cathy Carter at Antoinette Godkin, 'We Float'  2014.

​AUT University, Outstanding Alumni Cathy Carter
https://alumni.aut.ac.nz/outstanding-alumni/profile?id=59046&page=Notable

​Astrid Austin, ‘Auckland Artist to Share Waimarama Exhibition’
Waimarama Reflecting on Water,  Hawkes Bay Today, Saturday Feb 3rd 2018
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503462&objectid=11986304


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Vivienne Haldane, Wonderful Water’,Living Hawkes Bay‘ 
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/586d86fb59cc688e1a7f138b/t/5b7b62e588251bcb57674211/1534812970362/Muse_LivingHBay_Carter.pdf
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Living Hawkes Bay, Summer 2017 / 2018

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Manifest Gallery. 'H2o ' 2017.
November 10th - December 8th
2727 Woodburn Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45206, USA
www.manifestgallery.org/about/schedule.html
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ART NEW ZEALAND #160 Summer/2016-2017 (article)

 'The space between the elements in Cathy carter's composite image of bathers in Waikiki is random however; study it and see how far each of the swimmers moved between the 2 captures. A serene and contemplative wprk, its themes seep from the wall into the viewer - indolence, indifference to the passing of time, joy at the kind of colour a jellybean world can produce.' Don Abbott
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 Sophia Schön, 'We Float'  2014.


The gallery was once located in the inner city, an up market high street. It now lives in a gleaming white multiplex apartment building that is more Miami then Auckland. Maybe it’s a sign of the times. It doesn’t matter. Inside it is domestic luxe; white on white with lush tropical orchids and bromeliads. The lounge is punctuated with art, works by Cathy Carter, the first to exhibit in this space with We Float.

Her images are placed in the domestic scene, in the kitchen, above the bench. I don’t know if this should matter. I feel I am elsewhere, overseas, some place so rich in context it’s hard to stay afloat. But all of this is secondary, as the pieces pull me in. Eye watering detail takes me right up close, close enough to see the structure of the print, but in due course the sheer scale and reflections wash me out again. Like the tide I find myself in an ebb and flow, moving around the space between the domestic and the gallery. Cathy Carter’s work aims and succeeds in pulling me under, and gently bringing me back to the surface.

In between the visceral experiences there is more. Time for one quick breath. Works like ‘Blue Refrain 2014’ are infused with suggestions of philosophies and social concerns. But it is a calling from the silent deep where light no longer reaches that intrigues me the most about Cathy’s work. We Float has taken the gallery into the domestic, and with that tip toed the abyss, refusing to make eye contact.

 


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