Cyanotype on Fabric & Appliqué Quilts
By Cathy Corbishley
Cathy Corbishley is a retired urological histopathologist from St George's Hospital and Medical School who has been designing and making art textiles since 1994. Her most recent work uses cyanotype photographic printing on fabric ("Blueprinting") and is inspired by historical themes.
Cathy exhibits nationally and internationally. Her work is held both by private collectors and in permanent museum collections in the UK and beyond.
Three Ships from Hull 1 - Captain Cook's "Resolution" (2017)
Cyanotype on cotton (44 x 68 inches) ... view full-screen version
Made for an exhibition at the Hull Maritime Museum and subsequently exhibited in the Ferens Art Gallery ...
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CATHY CORBISHLEY 2017 - PERSONAL USE ONLY
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Three Ships from Hull 2 - Exploration and Whaling (2017)
Cyanotype on cotton (44 x 68 inches) ... view full-screen version
Made for an exhibition at the Hull Maritime Museum and subsequently exhibited in the Ferens Art Gallery ...
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CATHY CORBISHLEY 2017 - PERSONAL USE ONLY
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Blood Film - detail (1999)
Appliqué quilt (20 x 20 inches) ... view full-screen version
Made as a retirement present for a Haematologist and used as a cover image for the BJU International ...
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CATHY CORBISHLEY 1999 - PERSONAL USE ONLY
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Endurance 1 - The Ship and the James Caird (2010)
Cyanotype on cotton (43 x 64 inches)... view full-screen version
Part of a large series of wallhangings made for exhibitions and museums, and for descendants of Shackleton's Endurance expedition ...
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CATHY CORBISHLEY 2010 - PERSONAL USE ONLY
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Threads of Green - The Green Man (2019)
Cyanotype on green printed fabric (50 x 58 inches) ... view full-screen version
Using original artwork by Zoe Michel, this print was made for an exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum of Farming ...
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CATHY CORBISHLEY 2019 - PERSONAL USE ONLY
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Uncle Bill 2 (2018)
Cyanotype on Cotton (36 x 54 inches) ... view full-screen version
This is a wallhanging featuring images of Dr Edward Wilson, a St George's alumnus, who died in Antarctica with Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 - part of a Terra Nova / Captain Scott series ...
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CATHY CORBISHLEY 2018 - PERSONAL USE ONLY
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Remarkable Trees 2 (2006)
Appliqué quilt (72 inches square) ... view full-screen version
Made to raise money for Prostate UK from an original design by Laura Reinstatler ...
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CATHY CORBISHLEY 2006 - PERSONAL USE ONLY
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Muybridge in Motion (2017)
Cyanotype on cotton organdie (60 x 86 inches) ... view full-screen version
Made as a commission for the Kingston on Thames Museum, who inherited the photographer Eadweard Muybridge's photographic collection on his death in 1904 ...
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CATHY CORBISHLEY 2017 - PERSONAL USE ONLY
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