bio

BIOGRAPHY
Catherine Gates was born in 1972 in Pennsylvania. Her early years and schooling were in the Far East, the Middle East, North Africa, and North America. The artist's childhood memories are vibrant with multicultural exposure. There were many observations and lessons about cultural geography.

Gates dedicated some years to studying and understanding architecture as theory, discipline, practice, and project. While living in Australia, she was awarded an architecture degree with first class honors. Design principles and theories applied in architecture and urbanism are part of her work.

She has experience on projects of varying size: as small as a napkin sketch, as charming as a boat shed, and as large as a metropolitan area. Catherine Gates' work has been exhibited in Australia, USA, and Iceland.

Drawing the urban subject is ongoing for the artist. Her work schedule and drawing board are full with sketches that will spawn several complete series of theoretical urban designs for people to observe, critique, and speculate. In addition, the artist has plans to design and build her own studio.

PRODUCTIVITY
Cath is currently busy with business development and writing architectural comment.