Cath Lewis is a visual artist and arts educator based in South Wales. Her artwork utilises a multitude of media and techniques.  It is process led, site responsive and specific.

She works within the wider community and environment as a freelance art teacher and practitioner, specialising in digital and traditional print, paper-making, bookbinding and a variety of textile techniques.

The use of environmentally sustainable materials and techniques is essential to her.

The work aims to demonstrate the many complex processes involved in the making of a simple, everyday product that we may take for granted. Her collections highlight themes that persist within her practice: environmental sustainability, commodification and globalisation, participation and process.

I explore issues surrounding technology and aesthetics in a visual art context, including the relationships between more traditional forms of making and participatory modes of communication and dialogue. Although artworks are often in a virtual or digital format, the lure of the processes always draws me back to working physically with materials. I try to work only with what I already have or am given, bearing in mind the traditions of the Bricoleur, Arte Povera and Gutai manifestos.

Things in our lives are acquired very easily, without us having to think too much about provenance or consequence. The artwork is not an end product but a focal point around  which ideas are formed and disseminated. I hope this work will engage the viewer on many levels - to evoke enchantment with nature, to promote re-involvement with our environment and to invoke responsibility for our actions and decisions.

the weight of the soul in feathers; installation photograph, 2010