Strauss & co - 16 February 2019, Cape Town

25 11 Kate Gottgens SOUTH AFRICAN 1965– Rattle 2016 signed on the reverse oil on canvas 85 by 120 cm R80 000 – 120 000 ‘At the time of making these paintings I was reading Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life , which was an inspiring parallel picture of young men entering adulthood. My characters are almost all millennials, Generation Y … It’s a response to my environment, observing my millennial children growing up in an affluent but changeable world filled to bursting with real and psychic hunger and emptiness.’ Kate Gottgens, quoted in Layla Leiman (2016) Are you scared of this too? Kate Gottgens new show ‘Famine’, [Online] Available: https://10and5.com/2016/09/26/are-you-scared-of-this-too-kate-gottgens- new-show-famine/ [6 December 2018]. EXHIBITED SMAC Gallery, Johannesburg, Kate Gottgens: Famine , 11 September to 6 October 2016. LITERATURE Sean O’Toole. (2017) Kate Gottgens: Painting, Cape Town: SMAC Gallery. Illustrated in colour on page 76.