The forensic side of the home.
Collage . Installation . Painting . Writing
From Household Work. Collage. 2021
From the dust works. House dust collected from donors, suspended in water. 2018.
Photograph, exhibited at monumental scale.
Catherine Russ in ‘Looking out at the View’. 2020.
About
Catherine Russ is an artist and writer based in Christchurch. Her work treats the home as a site of evidence: dust, laundry, the residue of repeated labour, and the memory such things hold without being asked to.
From Interiors. My Bedroom. Painting. 2025
Writing
Dog Days — published in Strong Words 4, the best of the Landfall Essay Competition, edited by Lynley Edmeades. The book includes an original collage. Available from Otago University Press.
“A strange dog that I recognise as a German Shepherd zigzags up our driveway with what appears to be a sense of urgency. It lopes through our open front door, hugging the entranceway wall until it reaches the dining room, where it discovers our sleeping dog.”
From 'Dog Days'
Last One Standing — Micro-fiction published in Flash Frontier.