Catherine McCaw-Aldworth

I was able to take part in a ceramics workshop today which was very helpful in letting me explore new avenues of work. ceramics is very important in the home as It is what most of our eating appliances such as plates, bowls and cups are made from. There are various forms of ceramics that one can work with but today I was working with terracotta clay and used it in some unconventional ways. I created two simple houses, four walls, a triangular roof and knife drawn doors and windows, much like a three-dimensional children’s drawing. I then threw these houses against a wall to smash and deform them, this became the finished piece. It reminds me of Dorothy’s house from the Wizard of Oz when it lands atop the wicked witch. This kind of displacement of a house is somewhat nauseating, it could be seen as a demolished pile of clay from a child or an abstract piece of an artist. .

The time has come and DOMESTIC DISHARMONY is here! I am so proud and beyond thrilled with how this show has turned out. If you’re near Farnham come by and say hi and see some amazing work! DOMESTIC DISHARMONY is a collective work of five female artists centring around the theme of the domestic and all that surrounds it. The works of Catherine McCaw-Aldworth, Lauren Rea, Eleanor McLean, Julia Da Costa and Maria Kaminska.  The work varies from three dimensional sculpture and to dimensional painting and poetry on bed sheets. Whether the work is poetic in the form of words or in the form of dripping wax from lace, the work finds a way to connect with its audience. 

I am currently putting together a show called DOMESTIC DISHARMONY and I am working on some new pieces to have in the show. I am going to show the print ‘Traces’ from the crit show as I had some really good feedback from that piece and I really want to show it again to a wider audience and outside of the dirty studio environment where our crit shows take place. I had an idea for a piece that I call ‘The Seven Dwarves’ this will consist of seven wax cans in the stages of crumpling on a box shelf. The cans represent empty alcoholic drinks that can be left around the home by parents. The stages of crumpling in the cans also refers to the deterioration of the home. How a situational place can decay. One thing that I find quite interesting is how parents or guardians tell their children fairy tales and stories to mask what’s really going on in the home. By influencing the child’s imagination, it distracts them from what’s really going on around them. these sto...