Strauss & co - 19 November 2015, Johannesburg

EDUCATION ENDOWMENT AUCTION 74 110 NORMAN CLIVE CATHERINE SOUTH AFRICAN 1949– Hominid signed and dated 1977 ink, pencil and gouache on paper 22 by 38 cm R16 000 – 20 000 Norman Catherine , born in 1949, is an artist and sculptor based in Johannesburg. He is from East London, South Africa where he studied art at the East London Technical School of Art. His first solo exhibition was in 1969, and subsequently he has had 25 solo exhibitions spanning the last thirty years. His work is displayed in numerous public and private collections, internationally and locally. Catherine works in an assortment of media, ranging from oil, acrylic, watercolour, and airbrush; as well as wood, fibreglass, wire, and metal. His visual trademarks have included rough-edged comical and nightmarish forms, rendered in brash cartoon colours. Catherine’s art has undergone several metamorphoses over the last 40 years. Each passing decade character-ized by different attributes; from the airbrush paintings of the 1970s and his paintings from the early 1990s, to his recent prints that have set the tone of future artworks being described as a ‘pre-millennial menagerie of anthropomorphic beasts’. SA Taxi Finance and SA Taxi Foundation are privileged to work in an industry that holistically encompasses the yin and yang of South Africa – we are passionate about everything that makes our country great. Norman Catherine needs no introduction – through his use of mixed media, his creations are a physical representation of South African ingenuity and resourcefulness. His characteristic trademarks are tinged with humour and are a beautiful testimony of our willingness as South Africans to see the comedy in our situation. DONATED BY THE ARTIST for the APS Education Endowment Fund