Australian photographer and art director Catherine Croll has become a cultural ambassador between two worlds. Jonah M. Kessel
October 2009
China Daily – Beijing
How Sweeping Strokes Can Link Cultures: Since 2005, China is Catherine Croll’s second home. A photographer and printmaker engaged in multi-disciplinary arts practices such as installation and video art, Croll has spent the last four years facilitating arts exchange between Australia and China. Her journey in arts management began with planning and hosting community cultural development programs in Australia. In 2007, after a whirlwind tour through 40 cities in China, she earned herself a residency with Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. Her findings about the country’s immensely vibrant and diverse cultural landscape went into a series of books: China: a Portrait, China: a Passage, China: a Palate and so on. Curating the From Mao to Now show at the Sydney Olympic Park in 2008, a cultural show to mark Beijing Olympics, reaffirmed her Chinese connection. Eighty Australian Chinese artists were featured, showcasing how the art of the two countries keep inspiring each other. …more
Coming Home on ABC TV
May 2009
ABC TV News Breakfast Show covered Coming Home.
December 2008
Australian Art Monthly – Artnotes
Issue 216, Summer Dec-Feb, 2008
August 2008
Australian Art Review – Feature
“Crossing Cultures” pp 46 – 49
Issue 16, Aug-Oct, 2008
February 2008
Newcastle Herald
Gloria Petyarre Gift to Newcastle Region Art Gallery
Catherine Croll and the five panel Gloria Petyarre - Newcastle Herald
Precious Painting Generous Gift to City
AFTER Catherine Croll and her family sorted out her father’s estate, which included a lot of modern art, she said she was determined to pass on precious works for others to enjoy before she died.
After listening to the apology to the stolen generations at Newcastle City Hall on Wednesday, Ms Croll walked across Civic Park and saw her newly donated painting to the Newcastle Region Gallery, a work by Aboriginal artist Gloria Petyarre, hung and ready for viewing.
“It was uplifting, seeing the painting installed in a public gallery for the entire community to enjoy” she said.
Petyarre’s painting in acrylic, Leaves 2001, covers five panels and is the centrepiece of a new show that opens today.
Petyarre, born about 1945, is from Anungara in the Northern Territory and a member of the Utopia art community.
Ms Croll, of Newcastle East, said her father bought the work in the mid-1990s.
Author: By FRANCES THOMPSON Date: 15/02/2008
December 2007
Australian Art Monthly – Artnotes
Issue 206, Summer Dec-Feb, 2007
Photographic travels
In 2006-07 photographer Catherine Croll traveled 20,000 km solo across mainland China and Tibet by local bus, train and ferry to compile a portfolio of photographs which captures a country and people in a period of rapid change. Catherine Croll first visited China on a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to research and document traditional cultural practices and their interface with changing, modern China. Her current residency at Red Gate Galley has provided her with the contacts and resources required to publish a collection of her images and deliver 60 portraits for the newly refurbished Wangfujing Hostel in central Beijing. During November Catherine worked with the Shanghai Propaganda Museum to assess the feasibility of staging an exhibition of posters from the Cultural Revolution at Sydney Olympic Park during the Beijing Olympic Games. RN
Catherine Croll with her Exhibition - Catherines great Adventure
March 2007
The Daily Telegraph – Article
“Catherine’s Great Adventure”
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DTM 28 March 2007: Artist Catherine Croll with her exhibition ‘Double Happiness – Catherine’s Great Adventure’ at the John Paynter Gallery in Newcastle. The exhibition includes 350 photographs which colourfully illustrate Croll’s three month journey across China & Tibet. Published: The Daily Telegraph – March 29, 2007 Page: 020 Edition: NE Keywords: Photography Photograph Photo Pic. Liam Driver.
February 2004
ABC Radio 1233 – Interview with Lindy Burns listen
