About me
Dominique Catton was born in San Francisco CA and grew up in Rome, Italy. After receiving a BFA from Rome University of Fine Arts she attends a One Year Program at the International Center of Photography where she develops and intimate and poetic language in non narrative video structures and image sequences. Her work was exhibited at Flash Art Event in Milan, Rita Hilmann Gallery in New York, Instanbul Art Fair and is present in several collections around Europe.
After collaborating as a curatorial consultant at Dumbo Arts Center in Brooklyn she moved to Mali where she worked as a teaching professor in Art and Multimedia at Bamako’s Conservatoir des Arts and the Centre pour la Formation Photographique and then Cameroon where she collaborated as a visual artist for different organisations while working on her personal projects involving the local communities.
Since September 2015 Dominique lives in London, UK.
Projects
- Cotton stringsRed dirt interwines stories, legends and dances, while the Niger River invigorates lives and clears space. The project presented is entitled « Cotton Strings and Termites Sand » a collection of photographs taken in a 6 month time span in 2013, during the war held by the French against the islamic tuareg whom had occupied the north part of the country. Of cotton strings is made the clothing of Segou-Koro's King, a thick dense fabric and is the traditional dress of the ancient Bambara Kingdom, whom were defeated by colonisers in 1889. Termites sand are mounds built by insects and can be seen almost everywhere in these lands. This sand on rare occasions is mixed together with karitè's butter and then used as a prestigious and exclusive building material, such as for the Royal Palace. Every encounter, passage, village in this thirsty land, threatened by the advancing desert, guards mysteries which have been preserved by the passing of time. A time in which traditions, popular beliefs, systems of production and lifestyle remain intact despite ongoing progress. Cotton Strings and Termites Sand tells the story of a generous and open population which lives in time suspended. This millenary civilisation has seen passing kings, flourishing plantations and mortal droughts.
- Le BaumIn team with WWF Central Africa and the Centre de Creation de Mode du Cameroon this project was created to promote a multimedia campaign to defend the rights of the Baaka ethnic group , who are forced out of the forest because of deforestation and relocated in villages in which they encounter several obvious problems, which include shelter, education of children and health. Aim of the project was to create awareness of their culture and helping them adapt in their new environment by using their culture heritage. Le BAUM is the traditional cloth from the Pigmey's tradition made from natural fibres from the trees of the forest. A group of young fashion designers from Yaounde were selected to design and produce a collection of unique pieces using this traditional fabric.
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Work history
Multimedia Artist, Photographer and Editor
Visual Communication strategies and Rich media content producer
Videographer & Photographer
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• Produced reportages and videos on WWF's activities on the ground
• Developed and implemented visual communication strategies for WWF's website
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Skills
- Visual Arts
- Print Design
- Art Direction
- Design
- Final Cut Pro
- Illustrator
- Indesign
- Photoshop
Education
One Year Certificate Program in General Studies in Photography
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MFA in Fine Arts Major in Painting
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