Are you ready for the Tour de Yorkshire

2 Hours and 9 minutes  RE-cycle-D
1200 mm x 860 mm

digital print on opal acrylic
£350

This digital artwork is  part of an ongoing collaboration between Cycle Heaven and Bar Lane.  I wanted to capture the daily activities of the workshop and the skill and speed of the technicians.  I brought in my 25 year old bike to be reconditioned and photographed  for the duration of the service. 

Watercolour print in signed limited edition of 25 available upon request.
£175 (numbers 2 to 24 available on demand)

Exhibited at   Artfest 2011, Art Ferens Open Exhibition, Hull, 2013.

What I have been working on:

Over the last year I have been working on a new digital artwork which is just back from the printers and ready to be installed for unveiling on Monday, 10th November 2014.

Here is a little teaser:

A detail from the Artwork named "EXCEPTIONAL CHANGES", which celebrates the numerous  changes which have happened at York St John university, under the leadership of Prof Fleming over the relatively short period of the past 5 years.

 It especially commemorates the handing over of the old student Association of the Colleges of Ripon and York St John, created in the 1890's to the alumni society created in 2008.

I will post full images after the unveiling.

the Darton Centre Project

Past - Present - Future

The Darton Centre project is completed and installed.  It will be officially be opened on Friday 2nd December.   The treasured old building of the Darton Urban District Council has been celebrated in the artwork produced for the New Darton Centre, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire through engagement with the community, local history group, children's centre, high school and former councillors and employees of the Darton U.D.C.  An artefact trail guides visitors through the various items of historical value salvaged from the former building and leads towards the artwork and oral history audio recording.

Audio unit with  Art Deco door handles from the former Darton Urban District Council Offices

Detail of  artwork on aluminium composite panel. 

Green Smoke Rising, Tanka

Green Smoke Rising, 2006

Print on photographic paper, edition of 100, 1000mm x 605 mm.

£265 framed, £200 unframed

Tanka are an ancient form of Japanese Poetry still used today.  The Tanka Seasons and Green Smoke Rising artworks are a response to Japanese Tanka poetry written about a thousand years ago, between 1250 AD and 850 AD.  The poems are ancient but the imagery expressed in them is still true today.  I linked the old poems with contemporary imagery and technology to produce digital prints.   Their content resonates across time and space from the Far East to the West.

I discovered the Tanka poems and oriental aesthetics while studying at York St John University in 2005 and 2006 under the guidance of  Dr Hisashi Nakamura.  Dr Nakamura is a founder of the Anglo-Japanese Tanka society (www.tankasociety.com)  and originally translated the poems into English.  He later published them in a book The Floating Bridge: Tanka Poems in English (ISBN 978-1-85072-360-8).  

Alas!

How sad to think

That my body will end in pale green

After all,

A mist over the fields.

Poem by Ono No Komanchi, c.850, translated by Dr Hisashi Nakamura.

Endeavour: Hospitals in Whitby over Time

Artwork produced for Residency at Whitby Hospital, commissioned by Hafney (Hospital Art for North East Yorkshire), 2010. 

Endeavour, a history of hospitals in Whitby over time where records show the first hospital in 1109 by Spital Bridge until the present hospital on Spring Hill and the same site as the 1925 War Memorial Hospital built with donations from Whitby Residents themselves - truly their hospital. 

Digital Print on aluminium composite,

2400 mm x 700 mm .

Research, photographs, history and anecdotal history gathered with input from the staff at Whitby Hospital.  Maps, photos, postcards and archives gathered with the help of the Literary and Philosophical society at the Whitby Museum in Pannett Park.  www.whitbymuseum.org.uk

A second work was designed for the Day Unit  to give the dark end of a corridor a view onto Whitby.

Trompe L'Oeil, a view of Whitby

digital print on Aluminium composite

1000 mm x 600 mm

Photographs by Nurses Jo Richardson and Shirley Wood,

Digital Composition by Catherine Scriven.

Heritage Public Work

Alumni Abundantes, 1841 - 2010
Complete work displayed,  6 x 1000 mm x 750 mm
Printed on anodised aluminium

Supported by the Association of The Colleges of Ripon and York St John. 

“You have produced a wonderful reflection on the history of the two Colleges.”

John Maw, MBE, Honorary Fellow.

Former Vice Chancellor Professor Dianne Willcocks, CBE, said:

“Catherine’s remarkable installation piece is a real tribute to the creativity and professionalism of our York St John alumni. She has produced a wonderful artwork that honours generations of York St John students and inspires us with hope and confidence for the future. It truly reflects the university motto “ut vitam habeant et abundantius” - that they shall have life and have it in abundance.”

March 2010.

Here is the sequence of panels :

1841 -1890's

1890's - 1920's

1920's -1940's

1940's - 1960's

1960's - 1980's

1980's - 2010.

I was very grateful for the opportunity to produce this piece and gain access to the archives for the University which covers the rich history and heritage of the colleges of Ripon and York St John and the development toward Univesity status.  When Roddy Hunter, John Maw and I looked at a focus for this heritage piece in the archives the long narrow photographs of the past students (alumni) caught our attention.  It was decided to make them the centre of the work.  This is where the title of the work has been derived from, the abundance of past students or alumni.  It is also based on the motto of the University which  is: "Ut Vitam Habeant et Abundantius".  Translated as "That they may have life and in abundance".  I think the archives were proof of the fulfilment of this motto. 

I am also very grateful to all the past students who attended the Archive roadshow day in 2009 and shared there memories and experiences of their time at the colleges.  They highlighted their respect for the buildings which were part of the campuses, the strong connections to the church represented by both Ripon Cathedral and York Minster, the different routines and the change which occured in the 1960-70's.  This change was echoed in the archives as the photographs changed from black and white to colour.  With the testimony of past students in mind, the intention for this piece is to make some of the archives visible to all students so that they can share in the rich history of the University, the developments over time, the connection to the community and  foster pride for their university. Ultimately this piece is about people over time.

'Alumni Abundates' is displayed in a corridor in the Quad on the Lord Mayor's site of York St John University.  It is in a corridor that connects the front entrance to the centre of the Quad (Main old Building) and fondly referred to by past students as 'windy passage'.  I like to think I have added to this by bring in a visual form of wind of change which occured over the last 169 years.  The corridor is the start of the Heritage Trail which is a walk round the campus of York St John.

Widening Participation

C4C foyer.

Drama workshop

Collaboration 4 creativity.

These layered photoworks were produced as a commission for the Wider Participation Office at York St. John in collaboration with the Sangat Centre in Keighley to give the opportunity to women to consider furthering their education and personal development.

Drawing workshop

Process Photos from Archaeological Dig

Working on the graduate show I am producing some more process photos. This one is from the entrance yard in front of the headquarters, which gets very busy, especially when the weather is compliant.



Digital layered print, 50 x 50 cm
Hungate Archaeological Dig, York, 2007-8

Site Photograph of Hungate Dig

This is the compostie site image from Block H excavation area at the Hungate Dig

Block H, 9/08/07 - 29/11/07
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4 Layered Digital colour print, 50 cm x 50 cm each.
Catherine Scriven, 2007 - 08.

Here are the individual photographs and like a composite plan drawn by the archaeologist, each layered photograph is part of the larger image, as seen above.

To view the photographs as displayed at the installation please click the following link: http://catherine-scriven.blogspot.com/2008/01/installation-at-hungate-dig.html

Archaeology Process Photoworks

Photographs: layers of time and process:
The activity on site is fascinating and in constant flux. I intended to capture this activity, the textures, features and some of the archaeological processes performed on the site and in the HQ building. The resulting images are like palimpsests, reminiscent of the work of Indris Khan, with stratified, layered moments in time.





Room with a view, 9/08/07 – 5/10/07
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Layered Digital colour print, 50 cm x 50 cm.
Catherine Scriven, 2007 - 08.

This print allows a glimpse into the process of the digital layering of the photographs.







Washing finds, 5/10/07
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Layered Digital colour print, 50 cm x 50 cm.
Catherine Scriven, 2007 - 08.






Trowelling, 4/10/07
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Layered Digital colour print, 50 cm x 50 cm.
Catherine Scriven, 2007 - 08.





Bagging, 11/10/07
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Layered Digital colour print, 50 cm x 50 cm.
Catherine Scriven, 2007 - 08.






Recording, 9/08/07
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Layered Digital colour print, 50 cm x 50 cm.
Catherine Scriven, 2007 - 08.

To view the photographs as displayed at the installation, please click the following link: http://catherine-scriven.blogspot.com/2008/01/installation-at-hungate-dig.html

Tanka Seasons

Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer from the Tanka Seasons Series, based on Japanese Tanka Poetry, a ancient form of poetry with a rigid format of 31 syllables divided over 5 lines (5,7,5,7,7 syllables per line). The symbolic images used in the poetry is often based on nature and closely related to the seasons, something which seems lots in our urban 24/7 society.

Layered digital photographs, 2005

Prints of these are available upon request, 585 x 470 mm.

£145 each framed, 10% discount for the set of four

£85 unframed, 10%  for the set of four.