Media steel and bronze
Dated 2017
Size 12.5 x 16.25 x 15.5 in. / 31.8 x 41.3 x 39.4 cm.
Sold $3,250 Estimate $1,000 - $2,200

Notes
signed and dated on bottom

Reference
lot includes exhibition catalogue aLmost actuaL, published by the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2021

Provenance
proceeds going to the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge; donated by the artist, see artist's website at catherineburgess.ca

Biographical Information
Catherine Burgess ~ [b.1953] Canadian
Catherine Burgess is an Alberta sculptor who has been making and exhibiting her work for the past 45 years. Born in Ponoka, Alberta in 1953, she lived in Edmonton from 1955-1960, spent the 1960’s in Vancouver and returned to Edmonton in 1969 where she has lived and worked to the present day. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta in 1975. Her early education also included a summer session at Yale University -Yale at Norfolk in 1974. She attended several influential artists’ workshops: Emma Lake Artists’ Workshop in 1977; the inaugural Triangle Artists’ Workshop in Pine Plains, New York in 1982; and the Hardingham Sculpture Workshop In Norfolk, England in 1988. During her career she has mounted over 30 solo exhibitions and participated in over 70 group exhibitions in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain. Her work is represented in over 25 public collections in Canada.

see artist's web site at catherineburgess.ca; a Catherine Burgess exhibition titled aLmost actuaL was held at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery in 2021

see Catherine Burgess, by N. Tousley, Edmonton Art Gallery, 1990; Things As They Are, by B.Grenville, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1994