Catherine Harper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3924761 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Harper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Harper |
| SIGNATURE | HARPER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3465-2253 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tate Britain Commission
A Letter From Special Edition Editor in Chief - Dr. Catherine Harper
The contributors to this special issue consider how urban, rural, local, and global communications, experimental and innovative media used alongside indigenous knowledge and folkloric craft practices, respect for the disparity of human identity, heritage, tradition, and culture, and the importance of documenting, preserving, and protecting, and enhancing creativity and cultural diversity is essential for our collective future. They presented thei…
Crafting the Intimate Body
The intimate body—essentialized in Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, complicated in Helen Chadwick’s Eat Me—is revisited through discourse on intersex, debate around trans identities and contemporary feminisms, via the subversive actions of radical crafting and visual, textual, material and performic queering
Catherine Harper, “Áine” (2020), 150 × 200 cms, Stitched and Quilted “Intimate Textiles” Artwork
The stitched and quilted “intimate textiles” artwork titled Aine was started pre-lockdown in January 2020 on a 2-week residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland. I wrote about the design:The s
The Canon and the Gift
The Matter of Material conference at Turner Contemporary, Margate, sits in conversation with Karen Wright’s curation of the Entangled: Threads & Making exhibition, and continues the infinite construction of the multi-dimensional web—actual, textual, material, digital, sensual, somatic, decorative, functional, ritual, personal, social, and economic—of textiles. A web that twists and turns through history and into contemporary culture, and across t…
Oestrogen Rising 2016
A weaver, seamstress, laundress and artist, in this essay I shall spin a yarn, tangle a web, and construct a text(ile) of the inter-weave of narrative and identity that I define as my intellectual, textual, somatic and material/visual practice obsessions. My work explores ‘the places in-between’ in the entanglements of Irish and Northern Irish gender and identity, and in the abject fabrics of death and of desire. As an Irish feminist, sense-makin…
Psychological distress may affect nutrition indicators in Australian adults
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this research was to explore which demographic and health status variables moderated the relationship between psychological distress and three nutrition indicators: the consumption of fruits, vegetables and takeaway. METHOD: We analysed data from the 2009 Self-Reported Health Status Survey Report collected in the state of Queensland, Australia. Adults (N = 6881) reported several demographic and health status variables. M…
A comparison of EQ-5D-3L population norms in Queensland, Australia, estimated using utility value sets from Australia, the UK and USA
Revolting Bodies, Desiring Lesbians
This introduction gives the background to this special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies that has its origin in the 18th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference of 2011. It traces the theme of Revolting Bodies: Desiring Lesbians across the ten articles of this collection and gives a brief summary of each
The Very Recent Fall and Rise of Harris Tweed
In September 2009, the UK's BBC4 televised Tweed, the story of an iconic, indigenous, handwoven fabric-Harris Tweed. This article is edited from the transcript of the program, written by Ian Denyer
I Found Myself inside Her Fur
Fur is the ultimate “fabric of desire.” Humans covet the gorgeousness of the stuff on the backs of the wild and the caged, and from that desire to those enacted in the orgasmic moment of death, the climactic moment of consumption, the ecstatic moment of the performic enactment of fur through wearing it, fur is synonymous with desire. In this article, the author examines fur as both a fetish-fabric that disavows its bodily origin, a material fabri…
Pecha Cucha
This text and image piece of work was blind reviewed and published in Textile: the Journal of Cloth and Culture 6:2, July 2008, 112-125. It was accompanied by 23 images (see footnotes or enclosed images). The work originated from an invited presentation by Catherine Harper at Fabrica, Brighton in response to Catherine Bertola’s exhibition Prickings at that venue in 2006. Catherine Harper was also commissioned to write the catalogue essay for the …
Letter from Catherine Harper
Rethinking Decoration
Narelle Jubelin at Goldsmiths College, London
Dr. Catherine Harper reviews Narelle Jubelin's Constance Howard Memorial Lecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, November 2001. She discusses Jubelin's deliberate and seductive use of the traditions of petit point embroidery in relation to her examination of colonialism, consumption, and identity.Textile means have been used by a range of female visual practitioners to examine, for example, women's historical and contemporary oppress…
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Narelle Jubelin at Goldsmiths College, London
Dr. Catherine Harper reviews Narelle Jubelin's Constance Howard Memorial Lecture at Goldsmiths College, University of London, November 2001. She discusses Jubelin's deliberate and seductive use of the traditions of petit point embroidery in relation to her examination of colonialism, consumption, and identity.Textile means have been used by a range of female visual practitioners to examine, for example, women's historical and contemporary oppress…
Letter from Catherine Harper
Rethinking Decoration
I Found Myself inside Her Fur
Fur is the ultimate “fabric of desire.” Humans covet the gorgeousness of the stuff on the backs of the wild and the caged, and from that desire to those enacted in the orgasmic moment of death, the climactic moment of consumption, the ecstatic moment of the performic enactment of fur through wearing it, fur is synonymous with desire. In this article, the author examines fur as both a fetish-fabric that disavows its bodily origin, a material fabri…
Pecha Cucha
This text and image piece of work was blind reviewed and published in Textile: the Journal of Cloth and Culture 6:2, July 2008, 112-125. It was accompanied by 23 images (see footnotes or enclosed images). The work originated from an invited presentation by Catherine Harper at Fabrica, Brighton in response to Catherine Bertola’s exhibition Prickings at that venue in 2006. Catherine Harper was also commissioned to write the catalogue essay for the …
The Very Recent Fall and Rise of Harris Tweed
In September 2009, the UK's BBC4 televised Tweed, the story of an iconic, indigenous, handwoven fabric-Harris Tweed. This article is edited from the transcript of the program, written by Ian Denyer
Revolting Bodies, Desiring Lesbians
This introduction gives the background to this special issue of the Journal of Lesbian Studies that has its origin in the 18th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference of 2011. It traces the theme of Revolting Bodies: Desiring Lesbians across the ten articles of this collection and gives a brief summary of each
A comparison of EQ-5D-3L population norms in Queensland, Australia, estimated using utility value sets from Australia, the UK and USA
Psychological distress may affect nutrition indicators in Australian adults
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this research was to explore which demographic and health status variables moderated the relationship between psychological distress and three nutrition indicators: the consumption of fruits, vegetables and takeaway. METHOD: We analysed data from the 2009 Self-Reported Health Status Survey Report collected in the state of Queensland, Australia. Adults (N = 6881) reported several demographic and health status variables. M…
Oestrogen Rising 2016
A weaver, seamstress, laundress and artist, in this essay I shall spin a yarn, tangle a web, and construct a text(ile) of the inter-weave of narrative and identity that I define as my intellectual, textual, somatic and material/visual practice obsessions. My work explores ‘the places in-between’ in the entanglements of Irish and Northern Irish gender and identity, and in the abject fabrics of death and of desire. As an Irish feminist, sense-makin…
The Canon and the Gift
The Matter of Material conference at Turner Contemporary, Margate, sits in conversation with Karen Wright’s curation of the Entangled: Threads & Making exhibition, and continues the infinite construction of the multi-dimensional web—actual, textual, material, digital, sensual, somatic, decorative, functional, ritual, personal, social, and economic—of textiles. A web that twists and turns through history and into contemporary culture, and across t…
Catherine Harper, “Áine” (2020), 150 × 200 cms, Stitched and Quilted “Intimate Textiles” Artwork
The stitched and quilted “intimate textiles” artwork titled Aine was started pre-lockdown in January 2020 on a 2-week residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Center, Ireland. I wrote about the design:The s
Crafting the Intimate Body
The intimate body—essentialized in Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, complicated in Helen Chadwick’s Eat Me—is revisited through discourse on intersex, debate around trans identities and contemporary feminisms, via the subversive actions of radical crafting and visual, textual, material and performic queering
A Letter From Special Edition Editor in Chief - Dr. Catherine Harper
The contributors to this special issue consider how urban, rural, local, and global communications, experimental and innovative media used alongside indigenous knowledge and folkloric craft practices, respect for the disparity of human identity, heritage, tradition, and culture, and the importance of documenting, preserving, and protecting, and enhancing creativity and cultural diversity is essential for our collective future. They presented thei…
Tate Britain Commission
Art (9 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art history (5 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)