Hounds Of Love
The Great Central, Leicester, 2010 

Rachel Cattle's drawings in regulation 4B pencil capture scenes inspired by folklore, popular music, classic horror and romance. Shown here for the first time will be her latest series of drawings ‘The Trees’ based on the carvings of peoples names found in the bark of trees in her local park. These markers of territory and love speak of the pre-emptive and the invocation of creative forces.

Pinned on the wall of her studio, amongst the photos of tree trunks, are photocopies of song lyrics; Pulp’s ‘The Trees’ and Kate Bush’s ‘Hounds of Love’, that starts: “It's in the trees! It's coming!" inspired by 1957 British horror movie Night Of The Demon. There is also a folk story called ‘The Girl and The Dead Man’ found in ‘The Gift’ by Lewis Hyde. In this tale, three sisters set out into the world armed only with their wits and bread baked by their mother. A small loaf and her blessing or a large loaf and her curse.

The show is informed by an interest in transformative processes and the ways in which the temporal is recorded and made permanent. The work documents and recreates trigger points perhaps in an attempt to recapture the moment of possibility.