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A dual-national, Catherine Mason was brought up in the United States and has spent the past twenty years in London, immersed in the world of art. Her early days working as an assistant to an art dealer encouraged her to pursue her interest in art to degree level, gaining a BA (Hons) in History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London in 1993. She then went on to obtain a Masters degree in Museums & Gallery Management from City University, London.

From there she set out to communicate her enthusiasm for art by running adult education courses at various colleges and museums, including Birkbeck’s Faculty for Continuing Education and the Workers Educational Association. In 1998, she joined NADFAS (The National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies) and continues to lecture to art societies, clubs and groups around the British Isles on a regular basis.

Catherine has also worked as a consultant, organising exhibitions, running public relations campaigns and promoting artists. She founded The Art Partnership with Alexandra Billam and over the years, worked with many of the major London art dealers and galleries.

Trip to Henry Moore's studios & gardens, Herts.


Her specialities are 20th-Century visual arts and Contemporary art – the art of our own times.

"I am interested in bridging the gap between the public perception of Contemporary art and the very real accessibility and enjoyment of this art."

In 2002 Catherine began researching the history of British computer arts at Birkbeck, University of London with the CACHe Project (Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories, etc.), funded by the UK's Arts & Humanities Research Council. In 2006 she produced Bits in Motion, a screening of early British computer animation, at London's National Film Theatre. She has contributed to Futures Past: Twenty Years of Arts Computing published by Intellect, 2007 and White Heat, Cold Logic: British Computer Art 1960-1980, forthcoming MIT Press. Her latest book is A Computer in the Art Room: the origins of British computer arts 1950-80 published 2008. (see What’s New)



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