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After Swallowing a Microscope 2025
Memoria 01 (in Carnazione Series)
Aspergillus 2025
Untitled 2025
Acrylic and acrylic ink on canvas 150 × 100 × 2 cm
Plant-based silk threads, retractable fibre, regenerated cotton, linen, hemp, watercolour intervention, solidified with plant-based resin 133 × 30 × 24 cm
Beaded foam 37.5 × 37.5 × 2 cm
Oil on wood 83.5 × 58.5 × 2 cm
2025
Caterina Roppo caterinaroppo.art
Catherine McColgan cb_mccolgan
Caroline Sharma carolinemindscape
Catherine Chan You Fee cchanyoufee Catherine Chan You Fee explores figuration, portraiture and abstraction through oil and watercolour painting. By shifting media, scale and technique, Catherine Chan You Fee pushes perceptions of the human form, questioning identity and psychology. The works mirror an inner landscape while inviting viewers into a subjective dialogue. Untitled represents a significant step forward within a wider body of oil works. Its meanings unfold like riddles, carrying elements of figuration and illusion within the landscape. The scene appears still, yet remains visually active, functioning as an experiment in both illusion and beauty.
Caterina Roppo is an Italian visual artist whose practice merges ancestral techniques with contemporary experimentation. Working with plant fibre and Jacquard weaving, Roppo creates textile works that evoke wounds, organic textures and sculptural forms. Roppo’s practice advocates equal, non-patriarchal dialogue, using ritual and symbolism to envision self-creation where vulnerability becomes transformative and fosters communal spaces for healing and exchange. This work is a sculpture that appears as a stone, yet subverts its nature. It is a stone without weight, the image of a trauma that has been traversed. The pain remains, but the burden disperses. The work becomes both threshold and vessel, a fragile and dense body where untold stories, inherited gestures, and collective silences are sedimented.
Catherine McColgan is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice bridges art and science to explore the ethical and philosophical dimensions of bio art. Working from a microbial perspective, McColgan investigates symbiosis, existence and what it means to be human. Using scanning electron microscopy, she creates abstracted images of human cells that challenge perception and scale. These images reveal the body as an ecosystem made up of interdependent forms of life. Aspergillus is an embroidery depicting a Petri dish originally created by Catherine McColgan by painting watercolour onto an agar jelly base. The dish developed a mould later identified as the pathogenic fungus Aspergillus, leading to its autoclaving by the university. This encounter inspired both the creation and the title of the work.
Caroline Sharma’s practice unfolds in three stages: free-associative mark-making, digital editing and final compositions using colour blocking, masking and connective lines. Working in acrylic and ink, Sharma creates paintings that echo print aesthetics while rooted in painting traditions. After Swallowing a Microscope unfolds in two stages. The first establishes lines and textures reminiscent of internal organs, shaped in part by the location of Caroline Sharma’s studio along the Jack the Ripper tour. In the second stage, digital techniques are used to experiment with masking, producing circular forms that recall Petri dishes. Connective lines extend across the composition, suggesting ‘lines of inquiry’ reminiscent of a crime scene.
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