About Catherine Christie

2006 SA Business Woman of the Year nomination in Culture and Arts. Another nomination in 2012. Third nomination in year 2014 for *Outstanding Achievement in Culture and Arts-Department of Government, on behalf of the Mdoboko Awards. For 20 years as South Africa’s leading Abstract Artist with much global recognition, the artist has now extended her talent into the Australian market again after exhibiting here 15 years ago in a co-owned gallery with her sister,called Code Red. Recently appointed artiste in residence for Atlas Pearls she continues to paint her world renowned Oyster paintings and Ocean Scapes, exhibiting them in the Atlas showroom in Bayview Terrace, Claremont, WA. With two South African Business Woman of the Year nominations (2006 & 2012) under the belt, there is still clearly so much more to Create and Explore. Catherine also received an outstanding achievement award by SA Government Departure of Culture and Arts 2014.

*This remained a nomination only because Artist was unable to attend the televised event, for various reasons, despite the generous offer of complimentary flights and accomodation to Gauteng-Johannesburg.

“My passion is to paint commissions for homes or corporate interiors that bring life into that space…That hold an inspiring and beautiful congruent energy within the environment that they are placed.My sincere love of colour and form is clear to enjoy in all of my endeavours – coupled with the fact that I take the back drop in which the work will rest, into serious consideration, when planning, painting or designing, so then end result tells a story.” ~ CC

Catherine’s fascination with the organic feminine Oyster is well known amongst her Collectors. The ever evolving Oyster series past 20 years and for which the artist is well renowned,continues..The relevance of such inspiration here for the Artist as she describes it is,”The Oyster offers up a Pearl treasure when it’s tested with Grit or Interference. This is Magic. This is transformation at its best. This is the quintessential premise of true Beauty and Alchemy in all its symbolic form and Splendour.”

Catherine has been painting Oyster inspired theme paintings for two decades and never tires of trying to capture the essence of such poignant truth found in nature. The artists love of the Ocean is visceral in her art and her many Sea-scapes bear testament to this. If one is a collector of Catherine’s works,or a lover of the Ocean,one certainly has to own one of her Oyster or Ocean Series paintings. For any contemporary art collector who enjoys a deep affinity with The Sea,they certainly should aspire to add such a painting to their Collection. The textures and layers are complicated,skilled and reminiscent to the touch of sand,shells and sea salt…while the colour palettes conjure up all that is seductive and alluring of Ocean in its many moods and facets. Beautiful and well executed Emotive Art Works that speak to the Soul and or The Universal Heart. Each work is finished and signed with a stainless steel name plate bottom right corner of the canvas.

Birthdate 1968

Exhibitions

2017 November/December Main Solo Showing

2017 June/July Under a Blood Red Sky

2017 February/March Le Petit Salon de la Mer

2016 Solo Exhibition-The Land Down Under. Atlas Pearls,Bay View Tce, Claremont, Western Australia

2015 April Solo Exhibition “The Ocean,The Oyster and The Pearl.” @ Atlas Pearls Showroom & Gallery,Bay View Terrace,Perth,Western Australia

2014 Award for Outstanding Achievement by Department of South African Government in Culture and Art. (Mdoboko Awards.)

2014 Group Exhibition Imbizo Gallery Natal

2014 Solo Exhibition Casarredo-Gauteng

2013 Solo Exhibit Sibusisi Gallery Melrose Arch-Gauteng

2012 Permanent exhibition in the Catherine Christie Signature Gallery (CCSG)

2012 Permanent exhibition in the CCSG

2011 Re Opening of the CCSG with solo Exhibit ‘Full Circle.’

2011 Invited to Exhibit in The Broadway Gallery New York by owner and editor of the New York Art Times

2010 Yardley Head Offices. Extensive private body of work commissioned.

2009 Solo Exhibition, Dubai, The Gallery.

2008 Solo Exhibition, Fairlawns Boutique Hotel, Gauteng

2007 Solo Exhibition Elements Gallery, Subiaco, Perth, Australia

2007 Exhibition In Tampa, Florida, Wall Street Gallery.

2006 Solo Exhibition at the Catherine Christie Signature Gallery (CCSG), Cape Town

2006 Art Basel, Miami.

2005 Solo Exhibition at the CCSG, Cape Town

2004 Solo Exhibition, Art Now Gallery, Sandton Square, Johannesburg (Sell Out)

2004 Joint Exhibition with Bruce Robertson, top South African Chef, Sheraton, Cape Town, Waterfront

2004 Solo Exhibition in August, CCSG, Cape Town

2004 Group Exhibition, Arabella, Western Cape

2003 Group Exhibition, Chelsea Harbour, London

2003 Solo Exhibition, Code Red Art, Perth, Western Australia (Sell Out)

2003 Group Exhibition, Okha , Cape Town

2002 Group Exhibition, Pakua Design House, Cape Town

2002 Group Exhibition, Code Red Art, Perth, Western Australia

2002 Solo Exhibition, Stanley Pearl, Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia – (Sell Out)

2002 Solo Exhibition, Stanley Pearl, Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia 2001 Group Exhibition, Code Red Art, Perth, Western Australia 2001 Group Exhibition, Okha , Cape Town

2001 Group Exhibition, Pakua Design House, Cape Town

1998 Solo Exhibition ‘Friends’, Louis Leipoldt’s Historical Barn, Cape Town

Awards & Nominations

2012 Nominee in the Socio-Economic Business Developers Category
2006 Nominated South African Woman of the Year in Culture & Arts
August 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award by Mdoboko Awards on behalf of The South African Government of Culture and Arts.

Testimonial

Catherine Christie is simply an inspirational woman; strong yet tender, possessing a pervasive and creative generosity of spirit that is channeled fluently from heart via hand, onto canvas. The output mirrors the input, exactly. The works are heartfelt, energetic, vibrant and absorbing, a paragon of their creator’s special virtues.  Steven Hanson

Achievements

Catherine Christie’s works have been sold to large corporate companies such as Old Mutual/Discovery, Finsource House, Irish & Ashman, amongst many others. Besides taking the corporate and private world by storm, Catherine exhibits her work internationally, in countries like London, Sydney, Perth, Holland and Cape Town. Due to the response from the discerning overseas art buyer, most of her paintings sold throughout the year are sent abroad.