At the age of forty-eight Catherine Arthur gave up her job as a technical design journalist to go to Hornsey School of Art. Shortly after completing her course she discovered that she had breast cancer. Over the past year Catherine Arthur has composed a unique cycle of drawings, mythologizing the crisis in her body, reinterpreting ancient symbols as well as creating new ones of her own. This article is extended from a speech given at Lauderdale House in London for the opening of the exhibition L…
Read moreAt the age of forty-eight Catherine Arthur gave up her job as a technical design journalist to go to Hornsey School of Art. Shortly after completing her course she discovered that she had breast cancer. Over the past year Catherine Arthur has composed a unique cycle of drawings, mythologizing the crisis in her body, reinterpreting ancient symbols as well as creating new ones of her own. This article is extended from a speech given at Lauderdale House in London for the opening of the exhibition Love and Pain: the cancer drawings and erotic drawings of Catherine Arthur’.
