Cat Roissetter

“Cat Roissetter’s tracings of bodies and objects torn from assigned locations, fill empty pages and are distempered by a noumenal grime –  her drawn image made spectral, thinly outlined, mechanically stripped from some unknown elsewhere but without gaining any better purchase on their ontological ground – shimmering outlines devoid of gravity, floating and often even cut-out, so that the figural solidity of a particular form is discarded in favour of a simple hole. These Bodies Without Organs – as Deleuze and Guattari insist upon: ‘a hole is as much a particle as that which passes through it.”                  

                                                                        J A K E  C H A P M A N

Following her celebrated 2016 painting exhibition, A Thousand Plateaus, Cat Roissetter returned to Brocket London in 2018 to present a solo drawings exhibition based on three uncanny narratives, illustrated by this exceptional artist and draughtswoman. 

J.W. Dunne & Other Stories is based on the artist's fictional meeting of the prolific early 20th century inventor and his peers and included a boy of works on paper amongst an immersive canopy of trees through the gallery’s two floors.

Roissetter’s practice encompasses painting, drawing and printmaking.

Delicate reimaginings of intimate, dreamlike, and often nightmarish mis-en-scénes, draw from a diverse range of source material, including 18th century English portraiture, pornography, found photographs and children’s literature among other things. Colourful cherub-like forms, uneasy eroticism, and an abstraction developed through a unique use of materials, beautifully manifest in an ambiguous world of nostalgia, nuance and suggestion.

Cat Roissetter is based in Sheffield, UK.