Catharine MacTavish
Self Centred
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Catharine MacTavish book of drawings from the "Self Centred" series(1974-79) coincides with MacTavish’s self-described “formal awakening” from which all of her later work stems. These large format graphite drawings and stone lithographs begin as simple hand-eye renderings, which in rapid succession turn to a fly’s-eye view that depicts the dissolving body of the artist enclosed inside distorted rooms. Self Centred is both a technical and philosophical inquiry, exploring the way peripheral vision has been conventionally excluded from art while also realizing what it might be like for the artist to “be out of the picture.”