Cathy Abraham (b.1968) is a South African artist based in Cape Town. Abraham completed her MFA, with distinction, at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2018. She works systematically to unlock surface meaning in the search for a deeper understanding of the purpose of the everyday. Abraham constantly questions the boundaries between reality, fantasy and illusion in comparison with existence and death. She uses materials in quirky playful ways. Her practice is grounded in the belief in links between art and science; spiritual practice and reincarnation; and the search for ways of shifting perspectives. Her work challenges notions of time and space; as well as expectation versus reality – collapsing past, present and future