Catherine Anderson
Catherine has always had a deep love for animals, particularly horses, which is reflected in her artwork. After immigrating to Australia from the US in 1980, she competed in rodeos in Adelaide, where she was drawn to capture the vitality and power of animals in motion through sculpture. Her first pieces were commissioned by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association to commemorate its 40th anniversary.
Since then, Catherine’s work has featured in a number of exhibitions and private collections, and her work has gained recognition through awards and commissions. Her piece “Flow” is held in the permanent collection of the Tweed Regional Art Gallery at Murwillumbah, and she has done public artworks on commission for the Scenic Rim Regional Council, Queensland Emergency Services, Queensland National Parks and Wildlife, and has created a bronze at Wyaralong Dam commemorating the RAAF history of the area.
In 2016 Catherine was chosen to create a life-sized sculpture of an Australian Navy sailor as commemoration of the Far East Strategic Reserve corps which was unveiled by the Chief of Navy at Memorial Park in Brisbane’s Southbank Parklands. In 2017 she created a dynamic portrait of a working kelpie dog for the town of Bonalbo, which now forms the focal point of the town’s centre. In 2018 she created a “Key to the Scenic Rim” in bronze to be given by Scenic Rim Shire to distinguished citizens in the future.
In 2020 Catherine completed a series of native wildlife pieces entitled “Sharing Space” depicting local fauna which was installed throughout the public spaces in Boonah. In 2024 Catherine was commissioned to create a series of endangered and indigenous wildlife bronzes which feature in the redeveloped Davidson Park in Beaudesert.
Catherine’s sculptures are cast using the traditional lost-wax method of bronze casting, chasing and patinizing each piece by hand in her studio, situated in Boonah’s Old Butter Factory. Catherine is a regular participant in the Open Studios program, when she welcomes visitors to her busy studio.
Awards:
Australia Day Cultural Award 2004
Winner, sculpture section, Just Nudes Exhibition- 2005 and 2006
Finalist, Lexus Mortimore Art Prize 2007 Finalist, Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards 2014
Finalist Stanthorpe Art Prize 2018
Finalist Moreton Bay Regional Art Awards 2019
Grand Champion Sculpture Royal Queensland Brisbane Art Show
Exhibitions:
Swell Sculpture Festival, Currumbin 2005 2006 2023-invitation only
Linden Gallery, Gold Coast-joint exhibition with Harold Lane Boonah Regional Art Gallery-“Quintessence”
Rotary International Art Show-invitation only
Old Courthouse Gallery-inaugural “Just Nudes” Exhibition 2005 and 2006 Boonah Regional Art Gallery “Factory Girls”(four artist exhibition) Queensland Sculpture Society Mt Coot-tha exhibition, 2014, 2018, 2022, 2023
Winner, 3D section, Ipswich Art Show 2021
Queensland Royal Brisbane Art Show 2015 and 2019
