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Catherine Ross was educated at Grant Mac Ewan Community College, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the Banff Centre.

Ross has exhibited extensively across Canada in notable solo exhibitions at Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Galerie d’art de l’Université de Moncton, Plug In, Stride Gallery, Prairie Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum, Grunt Gallery, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery. And the Glenbow Museum. Important two-person exhibitions have paired her work with the sculptors Glen MacKinnon at St. Mary’s University Art Gallery and Pierre Morin at Museé régional de Rimouski and with photographer Catherine Bodmer at Expressions Centre, and sculptor Denton Fredrickson, with the public commission for the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Aeolian Aviary, 2011.

Impossible Really! Currently on exhibition at the Gallery at casa, combines a narrow framed video footage of ocean waves as they come in contact with the shore. The camera positioned at about 12 inches high, was determined by the stature of a miniature dachshund. A miniature dachshund that has been realistically modeled, rendered in bronze and cast as 3 suites of 7 dogs each, making a total of 21 bronze dachshunds that cast their intense and intent gaze upon the projected image of the ocean, each other and the audience. In the installation the projector will sit with the dogs upon the floor projecting a seamless panorama of the ocean upon the gallery walls. The cast image will fall upon the dogs being at once a completion and an interruption of the moving image as similarly the stillness of the cast shadows of the bronze figures will both interrupt and complete the video projection. Impossible really! is a reference to the myth of Sisyphus, and the character of the miniature dachshund that is the model for the bronze dachshunds is my now deceased dog, Appleton, who tried to stop the movement of the ocean with his bark and intent gaze.