Catherine Harry

Catherine was born in Surry Hills, Sydney, but spent her childhood years in the beach community Cronulla. Surrounded by the dramatic atmosphere of surf culture, sands and summer, Catherine developed, very early in life an acute awareness of the power of colour.

In the 1970’s, Catherine returned to Surry Hills, Sydney, to pursue her love of colour and atmosphere in Study at East Sydney, now the National Art School, and later at the University of Technology Sydney and Charles Sturt University.

Since graduating, Catherine has spent the last 25 years involved in many diverse elements of visual arts culture. She has spent many years developing youth cultural awareness through community education and teaching. Part of her own development in the visual arts culture has been study at the Julian Ashton Art School, as well as study of traditional and ethnic art practices in Europe and South East Asia.

Although much of Catherine’s formal study has exclusively concentrated on oils, her continually developing personal style in the visual arts has embraced the fluent and immediate effects of water based media.

Catherine describes her own artistic style as contemporary realist and, much of her work subscribes to this notion with an evolution of representational forms of line, pattern and colour in her work.

Catherine comes from an academic background, but for a number of years she has preferred to devote all her time to the production of works in her Sydney studio.