Cathy Abraham
Cathy Abraham (b. 1968; Cape Town, South Africa) is an abstract multi-media artist whose practice encompasses the mediums of film, installation, painting, sculpture, and mixed media. Abraham attended the Michaelis School of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town (UCT), where she graduated with a Master’s in Fine Art with Distinction in 2018.
“My practice is deeply rooted in repetition as a material prayer. Invoking transformation and healing, these prayers address past sufferings that continue to haunt the present. Appearing as shadows in the overlapping ‘ghosts’ of colliding brushstrokes, such hauntings give form to otherwise formless traumas, the apparitions tracing the wound in its residue. My unfolding engagement with numbers and ritual action is meditative and devotional, a means of transcending the self towards an understanding of the interconnected, miraculous nature of all beings.”
Cathy Abraham