Katherine Boucher Beug, artist: 'I’m a dinosaur. I really believe in the craft aspect'
Katherine Boucher Beug, artist.
Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Christo and David Hockney are just some of the giants of the art world whose work is featured in Radharc: Dearcthaí I bPrionta / Perspectives in Print, currently showing at the Crawford Art Gallery in Cork. The exhibition is drawn from the Crawford’s own collection of prints, and also includes work by a host of contemporary Irish artists, such as Fiona Kelly, Frieda Meaney and Maria Simonds-Gooding.
Even in such illustrious company, Katherine Boucher Beug’s Thought Before Song lithographs are striking for their union of bold abstract images and poetic blocks of text. Boucher Beug, a native of Princeton, New Jersey long resident in Dunderrow, near Kinsale, Co Cork, traces her interest in combining image and text to her time at Northwestern University in Illinois, where she studied English and Fine Art for her primary degree.
