Catherine-Esther Cowie

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Defensive Posturing - Collage

Feminine Intuition - Collage

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Under the Flesh Tree - Collage

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Artist Statement

I work in collage for its accessibility—I can use whatever I find around my house—and I don’t have to be the best painter or the best draftsman to create interesting pieces. For this series I wanted to work with black paper and cut outs from an anatomy book. Right now, I am in an exploratory state, working with different materials/mediums as well as subject matter. The themes I generally touch on are trauma, memory, and immigration. 

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Catherine-Esther Cowie is a poet, visual artist and short story writer from St. Lucia who has lived in Canada and now resides in the US. Her poetry and visual art has been featured  in  journals including Prairie Schooner, RHINO Poetry, West Branch Journal, The Florida Review, CALYX:  and the PN Review. Her debut poetry collection is Heirloom (Carcanet Press, 2025) which was shortlisted for a Forward Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.