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Forsiden Utstillinger 13.08-27.09 // Kate and Carol

Kate and Carol

Katharine MacDaid & Cheryl Newman

Kate and Carol 

13. august – 27. september 2026

Opening Thursday 13th August 2026, 6 PM. The exhibition will be opened by artist Linda Bournane Engelberth.

Katharine MacDaid and Cheryl Newman both photograph their mothers, or rather, make photographs with their mothers. Having first met while teaching together in Oslo, the artists discovered a shared preoccupation with photographing the women they each call “mum.” Returning repeatedly to their mothers over time, both artists use photography as a way of observing how relationships are formed and reformed through acts of looking.

One Hundred Yards from Home

Cheryl Newman’s practice is rooted in collaboration and exchange. Her mother, Carol, becomes an active participant in the image-making process, moving between restraint and play. The work, One Hundred Yards from Home, is shaped through gesture, humour, and interaction, searching for a space where performance feels natural rather than constructed.

My Mother, Kate

Katharine MacDaid’s long-term project My Mother, Kate takes a more contained approach. Made over two decades, it consists of portraits of her mother taken each time they meet. Her mother, Kate, carries a reserved emotional register that shapes their dynamic. The work sits within this tension, between intimacy and distance, affection and control.

“For me, the act of photographing is central. It is a way to embrace our relationship in a way that I haven’t since my childhood,” says Newman. For MacDaid, “it is an act of both affection and awareness, an intimate gesture from a position of distance.”

Presented together, the two practices form a dialogue rather than a single narrative: one open and collaborative, the other more contained and observational. The exhibition brings these approaches together without resolving their differences, allowing space for contrast, overlap, and reflection.

At its core, Kate and Carol considers how mother–daughter relationships are shaped over time, and how repeated acts of looking can become a way of understanding and connection.

 

The exhibition is supported by Fritt Ord

Cheryl Newman is a London-based photographic artist, curator, and photography director whose work blends photography, collage, and autobiographical narrative to explore intimacy, memory, and identity. She holds an MA from the University of Westminster and a BA from Brighton University, and she also works in editorial and academic roles while exhibiting internationally.

Katharine MacDaid is a Belfast-born photographic artist based in Oslo whose work explores landscape, longing, and inherited identity through projects made across Ireland, the UK, the Middle East, and North America. She holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London, and has exhibited internationally with work that draws on personal memory and familial histories.