Mobile Art and Photography That Has Influenced Me – Interview with Catherine Caddigan from the United States
We are delighted to bring you the third in our brand new ‘Mobile Art and Photography that has Influenced Me’ series of interviews at TheAppWhisperer. Within this series, we contact well established and highly regarded mobile photographers and artists and ask them a sequence of questions. Each one relates to mobile art and photography that has inveigled and continues to impact them, by other mobile artists throughout the world. Our third interview is with Catherine Caddigan from the USA, enjoy!
In this interview, Caddigan cites work by Clint Cline, Laurie Amerson, Jane Schultz, Roger Guetta, Bronwyn Penn Nesbitt, Susan Rennie, Juta Jazz, Barbara Nebel, Bobbi McMurry, Oola Cristina, Meri Walker, Kate Zari Roberts, klimtt – Cecilia Sao Thiago.
The image that is currently in the forefront of my mind.
“Clint’s work is so unique to him, so very exquisitely realised”.
‘Theme for a Wall: 4′ ©Clint Cline
The image that changed my life.
“I love the dreamlike, whimsical nature of Laurie’s work. I equate it to Marc Chagall, who was never an inspiration before, but now is”.
‘The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.’ ~Marcus Aurelius – ©Laurie Amerson
Artwork that has influenced my art.
“Bronwyn’s collage technique is carefully developed and so expressive”.
Untitled ©Bronwyn Penn Nesbitt
The image I wish I had created.
“Jane’s work speaks to me, and takes me to her personal world”.
‘The Mirror’ ©Jane Schultz
The image that is most underrated.
“Simplicity and colour convey time and place so well”.
‘Bucolic’ ©Susan Rennie
The image that changed my mind.
“I followed Roger Guetta (Draman) on Flickr, watching his transition to mobile art, admired his success and began my own journey”.
‘Dada Manifesto’ ©Roger Guetta
The most recent image that made me sad.
“Juta creates images are both sensual and narrative in their essence”.
‘Kings New Clothes’ ©Juta Jazz
The most recent image that made me smile.
“This is not that recent but I go back to it because I love Oola’s wry sense of humor in this surreal creation”.
‘Fortunate Eden’ ©Oola Cristina
My comfort images.
‘Remember Following the Aunties Into Church?’ © 2018, Meri Aaron Walker, iPhoneArtGirl.
‘Denver Art Museum’ ©Kate Zari Roberts
Untitled ©Barbara Nebel
The image I would most like to give as a gift.
‘Decisions WIP’ ©Bobbi McMurry
My earliest artistic memory.
“I have memories of going to New York to look at art at the Met, the image, which I love, and which illustrates that memory is by Klimt”
‘Behind the Walls’ ©klimtt – Cecilia Sao Thiago
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Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
