Catherine Ade
Catherine Ade | Printmaking | Bristol
Catherine's practice is rooted in drawing and lithographic printmaking. At her studio in Bristol, she draws directly on to the lithographic limestone or ball grained aluminium plates, where her final images are resolved.
The labour intensive processes in lithography and their endless technical possibilities are a key element of her practice. Mixing inks, chemically processing the matrix and printing her multi layered images by hand form part of the creative process.
Catherine has a particular interest in the 'seen-unseen', paying attention to our wordless and silent experiences, our interior worlds and private lives as highly charged places - both in terms of their physical properties, their powerful symbolism, and their ever changing role in the topography of personal identity.
Catherine studied at UWIC in Cardiff, UWE in Bristol and Tamarind Institute for Lithography, USA. She previously worked at The Curwen Studio, London and now runs The Lemonade Press collaborative lithographic studio in Bristol.