Katherine Spindler completed her BA(FA) and MFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town. Her new body of work "Living Images" was debuted at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair in February 2025.
Over the years, Spindler has held a number of solo exhibitions, including the pivotal Still, presented at the FNB Johannesburg Art Fair in 2018. This particular body of work was featured in the Paris Conservatory’s exquisite publication Saison 2023/2024 and explores relationships between image and sound, teaching and learning.
The artist has worked as an educator at secondary and tertiary levels since completing her undergraduate degree in 2011. She has designed and facilitated courses in colour, painting, and creative processes at Cape Town Creative Academy, and for many years taught drawing and printmaking at her alma mater, Michaelis.
In 2018 Barnard Gallery published To Hold Time - the first book on the artist’s work - a of copy of which is held in the Thomas J. Watson Library Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Solo Exhibitions
2025, Living Images,
Glen Carlou Gallery, Paarl
2025, Living Images, solo booth with Untitled Art, Investec Cape Town Art Fair,
2022, Interlude, Barnard Gallery,
Cape Town
2021, Paintings For Disappearing
Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2019, From Matter To Matter, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2018, Still, Solo booth at Johannesburg Art Fair, Gauteng
2017, To Hold Time, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2015, Selah, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2011, At Sea, Commune.1 Gallery, Cape Town
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2023, ARTWORDS curated by Jean Dryer, Glen Carlou Gallery, Paarl, Western Cape
2022, O - The Air Between Us with Carolyn Parton, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2022, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre
2022, PAINTER PAINTER! Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2022, Abstract_ed. Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2020, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town
2020, Hope and Dreams III, Online exhibition, Barnard Gallery
2020, Hello From the Inside, Online exhibition, Barnard Gallery
2020, Homework, Online exhibition curated by Alastair Whitton, Barnard Gallery
2019, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town
2019, Monochrome, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2018, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town
2018, New Romantics, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2018, AKAA, Carreau du Temple, Paris
2018, -Nano 1.2, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2018, Barnard Collective, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2017, Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town
2017, Fluid: Perspectives in Paint, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2017, Nano 1.1, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2017, Barnard Collective, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2017, AKAA, Carreau du Temple, Paris
2016, Air, Standard Bank Gallery, Gauteng
2016, Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town
2016, Future/Present, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2016, Nano-, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2015, Cape Town Art Fair, The Avenue, Waterfront, Cape Town
2015, Picture and Paper, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2015, Dinner Collection, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2015, Then and Now: Conversations in Time, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2015, Surface: Emerging Painters, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2014, Seeking Eden. Casa Labia Gallery, Cape Town
2014, Dinner Collection, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2014, Paint Matters, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2013, The [Common] Garden, a collaboration with Elgin Rust, Gordon Institute, Cape Town City Hall, Cape Town
2013, Muse, Casa Labia Gallery, Cape Town
2012, Commune.1’s first birthday, Commune.1, Cape Town
2012, Cross-Currents, David Krut Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2012, Masters Grad Show, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town
2012, Landscape Re-orientation, David Krut Projects, Cape Town
2011, This is not final, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
2010, This is not final, Substation Gallery at WITS, Gauteng,
2005, Krisp! Art.b Gallery, Belville, Western Cape
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2023, Saison 2023-2024, CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL SUPERIEUR DE MUSIQUE ET DE DANSE DE PARIS. A chapter on my work is included in this extraordinary publication (pp. 92-99).
2022, Airborne Particle - A chapter on my painting is featured in Ashraf Jamal’s book Strange Cargo, published by Skira
2020, Local Virtual Exhibitions, Visi Magazine, May 2020
2019, Ashraf Jamal, Art Africa Magazine, September 11, 2019
2018, Nina Liebenberg, Art Africa Magazine, September 1, 2018
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2011, Recipient of MacIver Scholarship and NRF funding
2010, Recipient of the Jules Kramer Fine Art Materials Award and Masters Research Scholarship
2009, Recipient of the Katrine Harries Memorial Bursary, MacIver Scholarship, and Jules Kramer Fine Art Travel Scholarship
2004, Katrine Harries Print Cabinet Purchase Award for excellence in printmaking
2004, Michaelis School of Fine Art Staff Award for printmaking awarded for excellence in the final year of practical work
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2016, Artist-in-residence, Sylt Foundation, Sylt, Germany
2016, Visiting artist at Künstlerhaus Meinersen, Lower Saxony, Germany
2025, Living Images,
Glen Carlou Gallery, Paarl
2025, Living Images, solo booth with Untitled Art, Investec Cape Town Art Fair,
2022, Interlude, Barnard Gallery,
Cape Town
2021, Paintings For Disappearing
Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2019, From Matter To Matter, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2018, Still, Solo booth at Johannesburg Art Fair, Gauteng
2017, To Hold Time, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2015, Selah, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2011, At Sea, Commune.1 Gallery, Cape Town
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2023, ARTWORDS curated by Jean Dryer, Glen Carlou Gallery, Paarl, Western Cape
2022, O - The Air Between Us with Carolyn Parton, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2022, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre
2022, PAINTER PAINTER! Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2022, Abstract_ed. Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2020, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town
2020, Hope and Dreams III, Online exhibition, Barnard Gallery
2020, Hello From the Inside, Online exhibition, Barnard Gallery
2020, Homework, Online exhibition curated by Alastair Whitton, Barnard Gallery
2019, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town
2019, Monochrome, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2018, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town
2018, New Romantics, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2018, AKAA, Carreau du Temple, Paris
2018, -Nano 1.2, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2018, Barnard Collective, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2017, Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town
2017, Fluid: Perspectives in Paint, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2017, Nano 1.1, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2017, Barnard Collective, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2017, AKAA, Carreau du Temple, Paris
2016, Air, Standard Bank Gallery, Gauteng
2016, Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town Convention Centre, Cape Town
2016, Future/Present, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2016, Nano-, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2015, Cape Town Art Fair, The Avenue, Waterfront, Cape Town
2015, Picture and Paper, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2015, Dinner Collection, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2015, Then and Now: Conversations in Time, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2015, Surface: Emerging Painters, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2014, Seeking Eden. Casa Labia Gallery, Cape Town
2014, Dinner Collection, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2014, Paint Matters, Barnard Gallery, Cape Town
2013, The [Common] Garden, a collaboration with Elgin Rust, Gordon Institute, Cape Town City Hall, Cape Town
2013, Muse, Casa Labia Gallery, Cape Town
2012, Commune.1’s first birthday, Commune.1, Cape Town
2012, Cross-Currents, David Krut Projects, Cape Town, South Africa
2012, Masters Grad Show, Michaelis Gallery, Cape Town
2012, Landscape Re-orientation, David Krut Projects, Cape Town
2011, This is not final, Michaelis Gallery, University of Cape Town, Cape Town
2010, This is not final, Substation Gallery at WITS, Gauteng,
2005, Krisp! Art.b Gallery, Belville, Western Cape
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Press Links
2023, Saison 2023-2024, CONSERVATOIRE NATIONAL SUPERIEUR DE MUSIQUE ET DE DANSE DE PARIS. A chapter on my work is included in this extraordinary publication (pp. 92-99).
2022, Airborne Particle - A chapter on my painting is featured in Ashraf Jamal’s book Strange Cargo, published by Skira
2020, Local Virtual Exhibitions, Visi Magazine, May 2020
2019, Ashraf Jamal, Art Africa Magazine, September 11, 2019
2018, Nina Liebenberg, Art Africa Magazine, September 1, 2018
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Awards
2011, Recipient of MacIver Scholarship and NRF funding
2010, Recipient of the Jules Kramer Fine Art Materials Award and Masters Research Scholarship
2009, Recipient of the Katrine Harries Memorial Bursary, MacIver Scholarship, and Jules Kramer Fine Art Travel Scholarship
2004, Katrine Harries Print Cabinet Purchase Award for excellence in printmaking
2004, Michaelis School of Fine Art Staff Award for printmaking awarded for excellence in the final year of practical work
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Residencies
2016, Artist-in-residence, Sylt Foundation, Sylt, Germany
2016, Visiting artist at Künstlerhaus Meinersen, Lower Saxony, Germany