The Notice Board is showing Caitlin’s textile pieces: We for a time must part. 2024, in support of her “grief – as an expression of love” investigation. Caitlin’s work explores how making and materials compliment and support loss. The Notice Board is interested in how the space of making, at difficult times, can become a Land of the free.
Caitlin says: I am interested in interrogating relationships to grief within a complex consumerist society. Influenced by funerary art and tradition from the Victorian era I reference a period when death and grief were expressed through lavishly decorated objects and fashion. My quilted objects use materials and making methods that are associated with comfort to explore these darker aspects of the human condition.
Caitlin Bowe is an early career artist based in Kaurna Country, Adelaide, South Australia. Working with sculpture, Caitlin uses casting and textile techniques to explore ancestral mythology, the gothic Victorian, and funerary arts. Since graduating from Adelaide Central School of Art with First Class Honours in 2017, Caitlin has continued to exhibit regularly receiving awards including the CARCLEW Fellowship. She has also undertaken residencies including Studio Kura (Japan), Scottish Sculpture Workshop, and the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Children’s Art Space Residency. @caitlin.bowe