Talks that Catherine has researched and written for various organisations include:
Public Lecture: Laura and Harold Knight in Cornwall: The Light, the landscape and the people for the Autumn in Malvern Festival 13 October 2018
Public Lecture: Alfred Wallis: Naïve Painter and Modernist Inspiration for Truro Community Library 26 September 2018
Public Lecture: Alfred De Pass 1861 - 1952 ‘A Life of Giving’ His Art donations to Public Collections in the South West and London from 1898 - 1947 for the Art Fund at Epiphany House, Truro, October 2016
Public Lecture: The Sunshine Painter: The Art and Life of Henry Scott Tuke for the Newlyn Arts Festival at The Centre, Newlyn, October 2016
Public Lecture: Dame Laura Knight RA at Truro Community Library, Truro, September 2016
Public Lecture: Rural Realism The Influence of Jules Bastien-Lepage on the Newlyn School Artists and their International contemporaries for the Friends of Penlee House, Penzance, March 2016
In 2009 Catherine became an Arts Society lecturer and has considerable experience in giving illustrated talks and gallery tours. She has given numerous slide and power point lectures on aspects of Cornish Art.
Exhibitions that Catherine has researched, organised and curated as a freelancer include:
Co-curated The Window: Retrospective Exhibition Vincent Tutton At Falmouth Art Gallery for the Estate of Vince Tutton 7 January - 2 March 2019
Researched and co-curated exhibition 'Poems, Plays and Fairytales: Literary-Inspired works by Newlyn Artists' June - September 2013 for Penlee House Gallery and Museum
Researched and curated the re-dsiplay of the Art collection at Torre Abbey, Torquay as part of the Phase II development including displays focusing on Frederick Thrupp (1812 - 1895). On view from Summer 2013.
Catching the Light: A Retrospective of Henry Scott Tuke 10 May - 12 July 2008 Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
Catching the Light: The Sunshine Paintings of Henry Scott Tuke, 3 May - 12 July 2008, Falmouth Art Gallery
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- General Introductions : Cornish Art 1880 to the present - 7 talks
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- Catching the Light: The Art and Life of Henry Scott Tuke (1858 - 1929)
- Under the Open Sky, The Paintings of Newlyn and Lamorna Artists 1880 - 1940
- The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society Tuke Collection
- The Wild Body - The Portfolio of Fifteen Drawings within Wyndham Lewis’ work 1912 - 1919
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