Catherine Long

Rooted in the artist’s formative training in contemporary dance and somatic practice, Catherine Long’s works treat the canvas as a choreographic field: a site activated through rhythm, gravity, and the body’s intuitive intelligence. Marks are laid down with the urgency of gesture, mobilising the artist’s full body in relation to the canvas as an arena of space. Long’s paintings propose abstraction as an embodied encounter, an experience that precedes language and registers first as bodily sensation.