It's almost Investec Cape Town Art Fair and Untitled will be there.

We will be showing "Living Images" a solo presentation by artist Katherine Spindler.

21-23 February 2025
Lookout L6
Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), Cape Town

There is an eloquence in the rough draft, in the unrehearsed act.

As artists we make to find our way. We make to see, to feel, to move through. Much like we do in speaking, or in writing, we can surprise ourselves with what we say we see. To paint is to speak, as well as to listen. Meaning is located somewhere between emergence and disappearance, between clarity and suggestion, between what is thought and what is felt. Paintings encourage a kind of slow looking that is remedic, consolatory, essential.

Light Touches I, 2025 | Oil on canvas | 160 x 190  cm

The artist’s lived experience of aphantasia (an inability to visualize), and dyslexia (a learning disorder affecting reading and language skills) offer personal insight into her practice; though appearing to be paradoxical for this visual artist who loves words, it is interesting to note she approaches making not from preconceived imagined image, but rather in response to inarticulable feeling or sensation.

Retina Tickling, 2025 | Oil on Fabriano | 57 x 72 x 5 cm (framed)

Her work with text is not dissimilar; photocopied onto disused notebook pages she meticulously gilds the shapes by hand. Words shimmer with a mysterious pointedness; simultaneously reminiscent of nonsense and scripture, they fill the walls of her home-studio shifting throughout the day as the light changes:  “let the colours you lay on be violent”; “failures as fragments of other masterpieces”; “a small and special gift - the twig on the hedge”. Words too can function as paintings do; by means of suggestion, they can unfold this way and that. Living images.

Contact us for the portfolio:

 lille@untitledart.co.za or alexandra@untitledart.co.za

Katherine Spindler

Katherine Spindler completed her BA(FA) and MFA (cum laude) at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town (UCT). To date the artist has presented numerous solo exhibitions including a landmark solo presentation “Still” at the FNB Johannesburg Art Fair in 2018. This particular body of work was featured in the Paris Conservatory’s exquisite publication Saison 2023/2024 which explores and celebrates relationships between image and sound, teaching and learning. The artist has worked as an educator at secondary and tertiary levels since completing her undergraduate degree in 2011. She has designed and facilitated courses in colour, painting, and creative processes at Cape Town Creative Academy, and for many years taught drawing and printmaking at Michaelis School of Fine Art. A copy of a book on the artist’s work To Hold Time is housed in the Thomas J. Watson Library Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.