Catherine Ferguson CV

Living and working in London

Selected Exhibitions

2023

Green Spaces, Filet Space, London N1 7QP(solo)

2023

RA Summer Exhibition, London, W1J 0BD

2022

Flat , APT Gallery, London, SE8 4SA

2021

RA Summer Exhibition, London, W1J 0BD

2020

Hard Painting, Phoenix Art Space, Brighton BN2 9NB

2019

 Fully Awake, Edinburgh School of Art, Edinburgh

2019

This Instead of That, ArtHouse 1 Gallery, Bermondsey, London

2019

Drift, Thames Side Gallery, Thamesmead, London

2018

The Secret Life of Stuff ArtHouse1 Gallery, Bermondsey, London

2018

Painting/Diagram, Diagram/Painting (solo) at Studio1 Gallery, London

2018

A Road Not Taken, Marylebone Crypt Gallery, London

2018

Paint North, Ladybeck Space, Leeds

2017

‘Creekside 11’, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk

2017

‘Diagramming Caravaggio and Other Baroque Facades’, APT Gallery, Deptford, London

2015

Conference of the Birds, I’klectik, London, SE1 7LG

2014

Group Show, Berloni Gallery, London, WC2E 7ED

2015

The Aldeburgh Beach South Lookout, Suffolk,

2014

‘Switch’, Pulchri Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands

2013

2013 RA Summer Exhibition, London, W1J 0BD

2011

‘Diagrams and Machines’, Gooden Gallery, London (solo)

2010

‘Material Matters’, Gooden Gallery, London (with Andrew Graves and Daisy Richardson)

2009

Roma Contemporary Art Fair, Rome, Italy

2007

Galleria Trama, Madrid, Spain (solo)

2007

John Holden Gallery, Manchester (solo)

2007

VineSpace, London (solo)

2007

‘Painting Unlimited’, APT Gallery, London

2006

Group Show, VineSpace, London


Projects

2022

Curator: ‘Flat’, APT Gallery, London

2020

Curator: ‘The Undersides of Practice’, APT Gallery, London

2018

Curator: ‘The Secret Life of Stuff’, Arthouse1 Gallery, Londonn

2014

Curator: ‘Straddle the Line’, APT Gallery, London

2014

Curator: ‘Hidden (Cache)’ Paintings by Tim Renshaw and Bookworks by John McDowall, Wild Pansy Press exhibition space, Leeds

2010

Conference Organiser: ‘Space, Time and the Image’, APT Gallery, London

2008

Member of Selection Panel for ‘Salon 08’, VINEspace, London

2007

Curator: ‘Painting Unlimited’, APT Gallery, London


Publications

2018

‘Thumb/Rock’ (on the work of Eileen Agar), Arthouse1 Catalogue for The Secret Life of Stuff exhibition

2017

‘The Façade and the Picture Plane’, in Journal of Contemporary Painting, Vol.3, No. 1

2017

Review of Bernice Donszelman at Five Years Gallery, London in Journal of Contemporary Painting, Vol. 2, No. 1

2015

‘Surface and the Becoming-Body of Painting: A Short Essay on the Work of Sean Penlington, commissioned essay www.international3.com

2014

‘Hidden (Cache)’ in Pages (Wild Pansy Press)

2013

‘The Gaze of Discourse’ in Artists as Researchers (Helsinki)

2012

‘Painting and the Metaphor of Discourse’ in Painting with Architecture in Mind, (Bath Spa University Press)

2007

‘A Future for Formalism’ in A Future for Modernism? (Manchester Metropolitan University Press)

2006

‘On the work of Tim Renshaw’ in TurpsBanana (2)


Conference Papers

July 2019

‘Deleuze, Painting and the Case for Abstract Art’, 12th International Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference, Royal Holloway University, London

June 2016 

‘The Diagrammatic Surface of Painting’ at Surface Value Symposium, Reading University

November 2015 

‘The Facade Within’  paper at the Dark Precursor conference organised by Deleuze and Artistic Research (DARE), Ghent, Belgium

July 2015

‘Blocs of Space/Time’, Painting in Time symposium, Tetley Gallery, Leeds

June 2015

‘The Picture Plane and the Page: Moments of Order in Painting/Writing’: 8th International Deleuze Studies Conference, Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts, Design, Stockholm, Sweden

April 2015  

‘The Bits and Pieces of Painting…’, (detail) symposium, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

June 2014

A response to ‘Painting as Commitment (Sunil Manghani) at Paint Club East symposium on Painting and Commitment, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester

July 2013

‘“Movement-image”, “Time-Image”: Two Modes of Abstraction in the Work of Juan Usle’: 6th International Deleuze Studies Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal,

January 2013

‘A Fictional Tale About Painting: Juan Usle in the Underworld’: Techniques de Transmission: l’Autre au Coeur des politiques patrimoniales at Archives Nationales, Paris

February 2012

‘The Gaze of Discourse: Figures on the Surface, Figures of the Surface’, Changing Identities and Contexts in the Arts (CICA): Artistic Research as the New Paradigm for the Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

May 2010

‘The Elusive Surface’, ‘Space, Time and the Image’, APT Gallery, London

September 2008

‘Paintings’ “Surface”: Thomas Scheibitz meets Deleuze, ERI Manchester Metropolitan University

August 2008

‘Painting at the Surface’ at The First International Deleuze Studies Conference, Cardiff University

March 2006

‘A Future for Formalism’ at ‘A Future for Modernism?’ Conference organised by Manchester Metropolitan UniversitJuly 2006

July 2006 

The Life of Forms in Painting (on the work of Juan Usle)’ at ‘The Work of Gilles Deleuze’ Conference organised byGreenwich University Philosophy Department


Qualifications

2007

PhD: Painting, Deleuze and the Art of ‘Surface Effects’, Manchester Metropolitan University

1997

MA (Distinction), Chelsea College of Art and Design

1983

BA(Hons) Fine Art (Painting) Class 2:1, Manchester Polytechnic


Teaching

2020 to date

0.6 Fine Art Tutor (Painting/Research), Royal College of Art, London

2018 to 2020

0.5 Senior Lecturer in Fine Art (Painting), Brighton University

2004 to date

Associate Lecturer, Chelsea College of Arts

2008 to 2019

0.5 Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Leeds

2007 to 2009  

Associate Lecturer in Fine Art, Manchester Metropolitan University

1994 to 2008

Associate Lecturer in Art History, Open University


PhD Supervisions

Completed 2023

Emily Sparkes: Painting After the Internet: Networked Materialities (2nd)

Completed 2023

Desmond Brett: (Re)Modelling Form: Sculpture in Flux

Completed 2019

Alaena Turner: Useful Fictions: Re-enactment as a strategy for Locating the Contemporary in Painting.

Completed 2018

Jo McGonigal: The AFFECT of Painting as a Physical Space

Completed 2017

Adam Stone: ‘The Embodied Experience: Creative Process as Phenomenological Enquiry’ (2nd)

Completed 2018

Sarah Kate Wilson: Durational Painting: gifting, grafting, hosting, collaborating

Completed 2017

John McDowall: The Time of Reading (2nd)

Completed 2014

Eirini Boukla: Ichnographia: Arrogation and Alteration


Additional Examining Roles

2021 

External Examiner, Fine Art PhD, Slade School of Art, UCL

2017-2021 

External Examiner, BA Fine Art Newcastle University

2014-2017

External Examiner, BA Fine Art Coventry University

2016

External Examiner, Fine Art PhD, Lancaster University

2014

External Examiner, Fine Art PhD, National College of Art and Design, Dublin

2009

External Examiner, Fine Art PhD, University of Leeds