
KATE ARTHUR
BODY PORTRAITS
BODY PORTRAITS
BODY PORTRAITS
BODY PORTRAITS
BODY PORTRAITS
BODY PORTRAITS
BODY PORTRAITS
BODY PORTRAITS
MORE OR LESS A MERMAID
MORE OR LESS A MERMAID
MORE OR LESS A MERMAID
Body Portraits
Body Portraits
Body Portraits
Kate Arthur is a South African artist whose creative practice includes painting, drawing, printmaking, installation and performance. While she maintains a longstanding interest in portraiture, identity politics and representations of the body, her recent work moves increasingly into abstraction, exploring concepts and emotions through process-led work, valuing intuition, experimentation and play. She has exhibited in various group shows around the country and in 2017 she won first and second place in the Sanlam National Portrait Award.
RESIDENCIES & COMPETITIONS
2019 Drawing Research Residency, L’AiR Arts/DRAWinternational, Paris/Caylus
2017 Sanlam Portrait Award (winner), Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town
2016 Barclays L’Atelier Western Cape Exhibition (regional finalist), Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town
2015 Sanlam Portrait Award (Top 40), Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town
2008 ABSA L’Atelier Awards (finalist), Johannesburg
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennale (finalist), Port Elizabeth
2007 Sasol New Signatures Competition (finalist), Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
2006 Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum Biennale (finalist), Port Elizabeth
EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS
2021
Summer Group Show, Everard Read / CIRCA, Cape Town
Site Visit, curated by Clare Patrick, L’Air Arts (online)
2020
Midland (solo), Everard Read / CIRCA, Cape Town
The Portrait Show, curated by Musa Nxumalo, Everard Read / CIRCA, Johannesburg
Another kind of blue, curated by Amé Bell, David Krut Projects, KKNK (online)
Art for Books: The Clarke’s Bookshop Fundraising Auction, Clarke's Bookshop (online)
2019
In the flesh (solo), Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town
The invisible realm of possibility, curated by John McNorton, FIAP Jean Monnet, Paris
Gloss (installation), Infecting the City: Public Arts Festival, ICA, Cape Town
Kind of blue, David Krut Projects, Johannesburg
Anon, curated by Sarah Jayne Fell, Pop Up Place, Cape Town
2018
Saltwater (solo), Cubicle Series, Everard Read / CIRCA, Cape Town
Sunday Service, curated by Heinrich Groenewald & Brett Charles Seiler, GUS, Stellenbosch
BOTANICA, curated by Adele van Heerden, Art.b Gallery, Cape Town
SAME SAME, Gallery One11, Cape Town
Body Politic: Transformation (performance), Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Cape Town
Rain Dance, The Voorkamer Gallery, Chandler House, Cape Town
Cape Town Art Fair, Clarke's Bookshop, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town
2017
People and Portraiture, Everard Read/CIRCA, Cape Town
Array, curated by Isabella Kuijers, The Gallery at Taj, Cape Town
A Panel of Patrons, Julia Meintjes Fine Art, Tokara Winery, Stellenbosch
Potblou Blou Pot, Woordfees Festival, Stellenbosch University Gallery, Stellenbosch
Cape Town Art Fair, Warren Editions, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town
2016
Things you can tell (solo), The Voorkamer Gallery, Chandler House, Cape Town
HB, The Voorkamer Gallery, Chandler House, Cape Town
Fugly, The Voorkamer Gallery, Chandler House, Cape Town
Opening Exhibition, Loading Bay Gallery, Durban
BUZZART2016, KZNSA Gallery, Durban
Turbine Art Fair, Warren Editions, Turbine Hall, Johannesburg
2015
P!nk, The Voorkamer Gallery, Chandler House, Cape Town
Anthropology III, Breathing Space Gallery, Durban
Min of meer ’n meermin, Kamersvol Geskenke, City Hall, Cape Town
He sells seascapes by the seashore, The Voorkamer Gallery, Chandler House, Cape Town
Wet Paint, The Voorkamer Gallery, Chandler House, Cape Town
Frida Mash-Up, Alex Hamilton Studio Gallery, Cape Town
THAT ART FAIR, Salt River Parkade, Cape Town
2014
Drawingrooms (solo), City Soirée, Cape Town
Open City Vol. II, Church Square, Cape Town
2008 Epicene (performance) by Joni Barnard, New Voices Program, National Arts Festival, Makhanda
2007 Rhodes University Student Exhibition, Department of Fine Art, National Arts Festival, Makhanda
2006 stART Exhibition (co-curator), Student Arts Festival, St Aidan’s Cathedral, Makhanda
2005 Rhodes University Student Exhibition, Department of Fine Art, National Arts Festival, Makhanda
2004 Rhodes University Student Exhibition, Department of Fine Art, National Arts Festival, Makhanda
SELECTED ONLINE MEDIA
2018 Jameson Indie Channel, 'Love over fear: Kate Arthur paints tributes to queer bodies'
2017 NBC OUT, 'South African artist furthers queer visibility with body portraits'
2016 Between 10and5, 'Painting queer bodies in Kate Arthur’s latest work'