Catherine Heard

Catherine Heard's artwork interrogates histories of medicine, science and the museum. Simultaneously attractive and repulsive, her interdisciplinary creations delve into primal anxieties about the body. Her work is in the collections of The Canada Council Art Bank, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery and the the Art Gallery of Kamloops. Catherine Heard is represented by Birch Contemporary Gallery in Toronto. www.birchcontemporary.com www.catherineheard.com

Writings include:

“Unspeakable Anatomies: Remaking the Body in an Age of Apocalyptic Anxiety.” Re:making, Re-writing, Re-discovery: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Corrado Federici New York: Peter Lang, 2010.

“Uneasy Associations: Wax Bodies Outside the Canon” Disguise, Deception and Trompe L’oeil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Corrado Federici New York: Peter Lang, 2007.