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Catherine Knox

Citadel

Citadel
Catherine Knox

Title: Citadel

Description: Description: Initially prompted by the extravagance of a spectacular residence on a peak in Mbombela, this work, in the making of it, grew beyond commentary on material aspirations to hint at a quest for a refuge. Or even the eternal

Dimensions: 35cm x 45cm

Materials: Cotton paper machine stitched and coloured with faux gold leaf, oil pastels, Inktense pencils, acrylic pigment markers.

Exhibition: GFI Gallery in Gqeberha

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Inventing the Wheel

Inventing the Wheel
Catherine Knox

Title: Inventing the Wheel

Description: Celebrating the unequivocal power of ancient circular form, the composition promotes balance and visual calm while referring to millstones, wheels, coins and runic symbols.

Dimensions: 90cm x 90cm

Materials: Ramie cotton hand printed, hand quilted.

Exhibition: Inter alia, The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum (6 months)

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Culture Club

Culture Club
Catherine Knox

Title: Culture Club

Description: This heavily-stitched, multi-layered piece plays with Southern Hemisphere multi-cultural symbols and cultural references across different time zones. The dark fabric is a patterned hand-dye by Amafu, the remainder of the fabrics are printed with original printing blocks custom-made for the work.

Dimensions: 78 cm x 102 cm

Materials: Cotton fabrics, commercial hand dyed and stamped in my studio, hand and machine stitched and quilted.

Exhibition: (most recent) 2024 Tina Skukan Gallery in Pretoria

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Landmarks

Landmarks
Catherine Knox

Title: Landmarks

Description: This abstract artwork was prompted by Adam's Calendar (a megalithic stone circle in Mpumalanga) and similar traces of early life on earth. Time and history are conceptualised as overlayed strata and different mark-making techniques contrast ideas of the natural and the man-made.

Dimensions: 80 x 80 cm

Materials: Cotton canvas, stained with mud and ink; hand-stitched with waste wool, cotton and silk, seeds and shells.

Exhibition: National Quilt Festival 2024 in Pietermaritzburg

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Bo-Kaap Collage

Bo-Kaap Collage
Catherine Knox

Title: Bo-Kaap Collage

Description: A semi abstract representation of the Bo-Kaap area on the flank of Lions Head, Cape Town. It was always a provisional place, never quite coming to full realisation, a quality represented here by a collage-building process that peters out as it approaches the lower edge of the work, fading in simple outline.

Dimensions: 76cm x 110cm

Materials: Cotton fabrics, machine stitched and quilted.

Exhibition: Widely exhibited earning several awards.

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Crucible

Crucible
Catherine Knox

Title: Crucible

Description: The colours, textures, materials and the processes are the primary subject matter of this abstract piece. Together they generate an energy that invites a visceral response.

Dimensions: 58cm x 58cm

Materials: Dyed, stained rami cotton mounted on faux moirée, machine- and hand-stitched with wool, cotton and silk thread.

Exhibition: 2024 National Quilt Festival and GFI Gallery in Gqeberha

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Cherry Pickers

Cherry Pickers
Catherine Knox

Title: Cherry Pickers

Description: Morsels of waste fabric and heavy stitching combine in this painterly response to an ever-resonant theme of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art.

Dimensions: 80 x 80 cm

Materials: Layers of waste fabrics machine- and hand-stitched

Exhibition: 2022 National Quilt Festival (Stellenbosch; First and Judges Choice awards).
2024 Tina Skukan Gallery in Pretoria.

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Crucible

Crucible
Catherine Knox

Title: Crucible

Description: The colours, textures, materials and the processes are the primary subject matter of this abstract piece. Together they generate an energy that invites a visceral response.

Dimensions: 58 x 58 cm

Materials: Dyed, stained rami cotton mounted on faux moirée, machine- and hand-stitched with wool, cotton and silk thread.

Exhibition: 2024 National Quilt Festival and GFI Gallery in Gqeberha

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Climate Change

Climate Change
Catherine Knox

Title: Climate Change

Description: A gaping scar disrupting the surface speaks of catastrophe - a meteorite strik, a sink-hole, or similar. To ritualise this ominous geography, it is surrounded by the equivalent of standing stones, in this case morphed into human figures. They display various degrees of casual disinterest, oblivious of the warning

Dimensions: 35 x 45 cm

Materials: Cotton paper, torn and stained, hand-stitched, acrylic colour (matt and metallic)

Exhibition: GFI Gallery in Gqeberha

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Catherine Knox

Catherine Knox

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