Cat Auburn is a New Zealand artist currently based in the United Kingdom. Her socially-engaged projects draw on site-specific narratives and histories, frequently employing anthropomorphism—the attribution of human motivation, characteristics or behaviour to animals—to explore notions of socialisation, power, freedom, and constraint.
A recreation of the John Constable painting The Hay Wain (1821).
A film that condenses the various sites of the Royal Arcade, a piece of classical-style architecture in Newcastle (UK), into one location onscreen.
Amidst the languid wash of the ocean on shore, a moment of surreal transformation at Birdlings Flat, Banks Peninsula.