Mixed media
Cathy Abraham
Cape Town, South Africa · Born 1968
Biography
Abraham works in mixed media with domestic materials; tea, coffee, wine, ink, bleach, household paints often mixed with conventional art materials. Conceptually, she references the domestic material that surrounds her and articulates and questions the repetition of daily life and focuses on the details that she encounters in her life.
Artist Statement
"“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, 2025"
