Catherine Clayton-Smith Rescue

I am interested in the way we visualise, remember and record the world and our feelings. I collect remnants of all the various ways we see – online imagery, torn pages from magazines, digital photographs and physical artefacts – stored alongside my own internally imprinted visual memories.

Rescue integrates imagery and allegory from subjects such as a 14th-century painting of a blindfolded woman with 13 arms, the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in Thailand, and the axolotl’s ability to regenerate limbs.

These diverse references combine to form a hopeful landscape with rays of light reaching out to the viewer, presenting a transcendental reality beyond the visible world.

Catherine Clayton-Smith, 2023