Cathy Abraham b. 1968 in Cape Town, South Africa where she currently lives and works. She specialised in process-based art at the Michaelis School of Fine Arts, University of Cape Town (UCT), where she graduated with an MFA (with Distinction) in 2018. Abraham’s creative work is deeply rooted in a ritual based practice. She works in film, mixed media, installation, painting and sculpture though her choice of media is primarily informed by her subject matter. 

Abraham works systematically with repetitive gestures as a way of thinking through the patterns that mark our daily existence. The developed surfaces of her works consider boundaries between reality, fantasy and illusion.