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