Cathy Rogers British, b. 1967

These newer works continue Cathy's exploration of the relationship between the filmstrip and objects and organic material in the physical world; presenting form, volume, apparent empty spaces and movement on the filmstrip without a camera lens, in a metrical relationship and analogous to the filmstrip. 

Cathy studied at Chelsea College of Art (1999-2002 Design and Public Arts); University of the Creative Arts Maidstone (2007-2009, Artists' Film, Video and Photography) and latterly the Royal College of Art (2011-2014) with an MPhil from the School of Communication. Her projected works took inspiration from the structural-materialist film movement that began in the UK in the late 1960s.  Experimentation with the structure of the photochemical filmstrip, the camera and the relationship to the subject were key themes.  Her practice evolved through researching and writing about Paracinema (a technological and materialist deconstructed idea of cinema; one that did not necessarily contain all of the traditional components of cinema but could still be considered as such). 

Cathy's response was to focus on making a body of work that primarily focused on the filmstrip, what constituted an image and how it could be made without all of the necessary components of cinema (projector, screen, lens cameras, cinema auditoriums). Instead she prioritised creating images on photochemical film using alternative cameraless methods (pinhole, photogram, contact print) and subject matter (voids in stairwells, empty spaces, radiators, plants; the aim being to push what constituted an image made in these ways in terms of how and on what basis we recognise it as such when presented either as projection, installation or static form. This culminated in her MPhil Thesis titled 'Film Outside Cinema' ( RCA, 2014).

The recent 16mm film photogram lightboxes continues the exploration of making work that sits between the mediums of cinema, photography and sculptural objects.

Cathy also co-programmes and presents experimental film screenings in Ramsgate inviting local, national and international artists and filmmakers to show and talk about their work.

Her works are shown as installations, photographic objects and in programmed screenings.