Catherine Elwes

Catherine Elwes retired as Professor of Moving Image Art at Chelsea College of Arts in 2017. She is a writer but is also known as a video artist and curator, and was active in the feminist art movement in the late 1970s. She co-curated the exhibitons Women’s Images of Men and About Time at the ICA in 1980 and was the director of the biennial UK/Canadian Film & Video Exchange (1998–2006) and co-curator of Figuring Landscapes (2008–10), an international screening exhibition on themes of landscape. Elwes has written extensively about feminist art, performance, installation, landscape and the moving image and is author of Video Loupe (KT Press, 2000), Video Art: A Guided Tour (I.B. Tauris, 2005), Installation and the Moving Image (Wallflower and Columbia University Press, 2015) and Landscape and the Moving Image (Intellect Books, 2022). Elwes is founding editor of the Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) and has contributed to numerous anthologies, journals, exhibition catalogues and periodicals.