Catherine Truman is an established contemporary jeweller and object-maker working across the disciplines of art and science. She is co-founder of Gray Street Workshop, Adelaide South Australia where she currently lives and works.

Truman’s practice is research-based; renowned for its diversity and incorporates contemporary jewellery, objects, digital image and film installation with a focus upon the parallels between artistic process and scientific method.

Truman has researched historical and contemporary anatomical collections world-wide and has participated in a number of art/science- based residencies including the Autonomic Neurotransmission Laboratory, the Anatomy and Histology departments and the Microscopy Suite, School of Medicine, Flinders University, Adelaide.

During 2019 Truman undertook a project titled The Visible Light Project: experiments in light and vision incorporating two residencies in tandem – at the Flinders Centre for Ophthalmology, Eye and Vision Research, School of Medicine, Flinders University and the State Herbarium, Botanic Gardens of South Australia to draw ‘creative’ parallels between the physiology and structures of the human eye and plants and the ways both process light into energy.  

Catherine Truman mentors Michelle Wilkinson

White Lea

White Leaf

 Catherine Truman and Leaf