Artist Catherine Mc Cue Boes

Another version: War Games 16 etchings, Color and b/w etchings, soft ground and dry point. Housing: Hard cover in black book cloth with handmade marbled paper, red ties with bullet casing, double concertina artist book. Unique 1987 Part of the Boys toys series that started in 1987. Watching my son playing with toy soldiers lets to a body of work that reflects the destructive nature of boys and their toys. Does this sound like someone you know?

Catherine Mc Cue, Artist Statement WAR Games 2016 Its strange how first encounters stay with you forever. As a young girl growing up in a family with little interest in the arts my first encounter with images came from my magic lantern slides given to me by my grandmother. The slides where such a rich source of imagery and topics that I enjoyed them still. War Pig War Games, for children is one such set of slides, re invented and created as a boxed set,  complete with artist book and contemporary slides.  Materials used include, solar plate etching, embossed linocut, collage slides and text.  First I started to redraw the images to set the scale and size I needed for the slides, these will be re worked  and printed onto clear film, then mounted and framed. When happy,  I reworked the images using Photoshop, to add  textured and noise.  As these would be printed out as transparencies the correct size for the solar plates, it w

The Book of Lost souls 11 Monoprints

Artist: Catherine Mc Cue Boes Australian: Title :  First Revolution (Macbeth) Lithographs Major artist book produced at that time. Publisher: The Red Shoes Press Date: 1989 Leaves: 11 Lithographs (stone lithography) with screen-printed text. Extracts from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth Size: Images is 23 cm x 18 cm book size 51 cm x 36 cm  Housing:  Red book cloth with handmade marbled paper.  Hard cover, traditional stiched binding. Edition:  One of two (each has different color cover)  Printer:  The artist.   References:  M y work reflects the character Macbeth, urged on by mental suggestion, his thinking and his imagination, a concern between the man and the prediction of greatness, to focus on his state of mind, shortly relaxed, letting argument and reason dissolve.  I  see Macbeth as a fusion of personal vision with the complexities of human nature, e.g., good against evil. My main concern is to examine the emotional aspect of the characters and their gradu

Artist: Catherine Mc Cue Boes Australian: Title : Little book of mixed etchings Publisher: The Red Shoes Press Date: 1985-8 Leaves: 14 mixed etchings, drypoints and color etchings Size:  Book 17 cm x 14 cm Housing: Images:  soft cover in blue texture paper with red tie. Hemp paper with orange book paper inserts spiral binding. Edition: Unique in this form  Printer: The artist.  Typeface:  References: This little book of etchings contains early and even first etchings produced and cover topic such as emerging into womanhood and self-portrait.   _____________________________________________________________________________

Artist: Catherine Mc Cue Boes Australian: Title :  Boys Toys Publisher: The Red Shoes Press Date: 1987 Leaves: 8 screenprinted images Size: Book size: 30 cm x 38 cm Housing: Leather spine in cream with blue textured paper, spiral binding  Edition: 1 of 3  Printer: The artist. References:   While watching my young sons playing on a trampoline I created these images also playing in the surf. In these images, I tried to capture the sense of them Jumping higher trying to catch the sun and rolling in the surf trying to catch a wave.   _________________________________________________________________________________

Catherine Mc Cue Boes Australian: Title :  The book of Clones mark 3 Publisher: The Red Shoes Press Date: 2004 Leaves: 15 pages, computer-generated images, two images per page, printed on to textured paper. Size: Book size 21 cm x 32 cm  Housing: Red textured book cloth with green tie, Japanese   stab binding Edition: 1/5  Printer: The artist.  Typeface:  References:  An early and easier to handle  version of the Book of Clones and based on ‘ Against Nature, book of clones mark 2’. Intended as an artist proof this simple version of the Book of Cones turned out to be quite good, so an edition of five have been produced. 

Artist: Catherine Mc Cue Boes Australian: Title : Red Shoes linocuts Considered a major work at that time . Publisher: The Red Shoes Press Date: 1995  Leaves: 6 hand colored linocuts Size: Book size 61 cm x 46 cm  Housing:  Hard cover in red and black book cloth, with red linen thread. Italian paper inserts. Text written by the artist. Edition: 2  Printer: The artist.  Typeface:  References: Inspired by Hans Christian Andersons story ‘The Red Shoes’ and ‘Women who run with Wolves’ by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. These two accounts of the Red Shoes has inspired my version of the Red Shoes.

Artist: Catherine Mc Cue Boes Australian: Title : Devils Marbles N.T. Publisher: The Red Shoes Press Date: 1991 Leaves: 5 monoprints in color, 8 drawings, pen, 1 hand colored lithograph,  Size: Book size 35 cm x 34 cm  when open Housing: hard cover, brown book cloth with shaped cover Edition: Unique  Printer: The artist. References:  While traveling around Australia in an old converted school bus I had an opportunity to spend a lot of time at the Devils Marbles in the Northern Territory. During that time, I became fascinated by the strange red/orange rock formations and produced a range of monoprints watercolors and drawings.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Artist: Catherine Mc Cue Boes Australian: Title :  Madonna’s  Publisher: The Red Shoes Press Date: 2013 Leaves: 5 lose images, large scale water color and wax resist, collaged elements, photographed and printed onto velvet archival rag paper   Size: Images: 48 x 33cm folio size 49 x 34cm Housing:  Hard cover, folio in red/gold end paper with red book cloth.   Image of Madonna in gold leaf on the front cover. Dark blue textured paper inserts, red ties. Edition: 1/5 Printer: The artist. Typeface: References: