Idyia

Icebergs 2

Curl Curl Bathers

Dyamene (one who can)

Seven Sisters (Sterope, Merope, Electra, Maia, Taygeta, Celaeno, Alcyone)

Suspended

Deep Blue Waitemata

Immersive Emergence

Hotel Zaza

Immersion and Emergence #1

Liminal Blue 

Liquid Field 

Atlas Splash

Pounamu Splash

Ophelia

Wai I & II

Saffron Seas

Mariposa Blue

Waimarama Bathers

Piha Surfers

Infra Moana II

Synchronised Bathers

Liquid light

Walking on Water

Immersion Emergence 

Synchronised Bathers ii 

Pounamu Petrichor

White Wash Bathers

Seaside Curl Curl

Curial Curial:  Parallel Word I & II

Euphonius Psychedelia

Elephant Tongaparutu

Pounamu Rapids

Liquid Lines

Opulent Incendiary

We Are Water- installation

Oceanids, Kaitiaki

Immersion Emergence

Lucent Semillion

Zaza 

Dayamene (One Who Can)

Immersion Emergence, Liquid Kiss

Immersion Emergence, Mazu (Godess of the Sea)

Plunge, Deep Ocean Blue #2 

Plunge, Deep Ocean Blue #3

Spellbound Chartreuse

Echoes of Venus

Plunge, Deep ocean blue 1

Plunge, Deep Ocean Blue #1

Plunge, Deep ocean blue 3

Cresting Wave

Icebergs #2

Piha surfers

Poolside Immersion Emergency 9

Blossom Euphoria

Oceanids, Kaitaki

Plunge, Deep ocean blue 2

Curial Curial: Parallel Word I & ii 

Wai i

Immersion Emergence, Mazu (Goddess of the Sea)

Hydrophobic Pluviophile

Ephemeral Fuchsia

Curl curl bathers

Elephant Tongaparatu

Mellifluous Aurora

Cathy Carter’s work is inspired by concerns about climate change and our evolving relationship with bodies of water, drawing our attention to the growing evidence that these liquid ecosystems are under significant threat. Her practice navigates our complex psychological relationship to water, through different perspectives and geographical locations, as well as exploring bodies of water as physical, cultural, and unique environmental ‘landscapes’. Within these landscapes, there is an opportunity to reconnect emotionally with the natural world and make connections with internal worlds. She seeks to embody seeing as an experience rather than solely as an observation.

Carter employs intricate digital collaging techniques, to create works of hyper reality which explore human relationships to bodies of water as unique environmental, physical and cultural landscapes. Shooting, assembling, layering and manipulating photographic images, Carter’s highly constructed works offer immersive experiences, sensuous and psychologically-compelling encounters within spaces of isolation and destabilization.


Cathy is a graduate of Auckland University of Technology with a Master of Art and Design (Hons) 2013. A finalist in the 

international HeadOn Landscape Prize, 2018

 (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 & 2014), and the international HeadOn Portrait Prize (2019, 

). She was a finalist in 2018, 2017 and 2016 Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award. Carter’s work has been exhibited in Auckland, Wellington, Taranaki, Hawkes Bay, Sydney, Paris, Sczcecin Poland, Cincinnati Ohio and New York City. Her work is held in many collections including 

Cathy Carter - Breath of Time

Cathy Carter - Breath of Time