Catherine Truman is known internationally for her meticulously crafted objects and installations using carved and stained English limewood.
Catherine Truman / Artist biography
Truman trained in metal smithing and jewelery in South Australia, and in 1990 she went to Japan to study with the contemporary masters of the traditional 'netsuke' carving. Truman’s earlier work dealt with social issues such as housing, shelter, and ecological concerns, with more recent works concerned with the body and with the sensations and memories that are located within it and the history of anatomical imaging of the body.
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Truman has exhibited consistently since the early 1980s, particularly in Australia, Japan and Germany, and her work is held in public and private collections worldwide. She has undertaken residencies in Rome (2002) and Manchester (2003). Truman is a recent recipient of an Australia Council Fellowship. She has exhibited at SOFA Chicago and SOFA New York and was part of the exhibition Light Black, which toured to the JamFactory, Adelaide, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
