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Katrine Brink Claassens was born in Pretoria, South Africa. Working in many different mediums but primarily oil and watercolour, she plays with the connection between image and word. She has a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Stellenbosch.

Her exhibitions include a solo show at Salon91 in Cape Town (2011),a solo exhibition The Birds/ Les Oiseaux at Une grenouille dans la théière in Montreal (2010), Cheap as Candy at Syndrome in Montreal (2009) Greatest Hits exhibition at the Association of Visual Arts (AVA) in Cape Town (2008) as well as other various group shows in Cape Town.

An artists' book of hers Paper is You (in collaboration with Wessel Snyman) is both in the Africana section of the University’s JS Gericke Library and in the largest private library of poetry books, The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library (at Emory University).

'I am interested in exploring discourse, and how the narratives are important processes we use in making our identities, memories and ultimately meaning our lives. I work on a small scale in oil paint, always painting from photographs. I work in oil paint because I enjoy the contrast of its weighty historical associations (as opposed to say, acrylic) that seem to contrast with what the medium is all about: the refractive properties of light. Photographs (both my own and ones that I find on the internet) are my point of departure when painting. I use photocopies of photographs, which I trace onto my surface, moving the painting away from its original source, getting a copy of a copy of a copy. I leave the traces of what happened while I was making the work such as writing down a phone number, address or the marks of where I cleaned my brushes.



Sud-africaine née à Pretoria, Katrine Brink Claassens vit et travaille actuellement au Cap. Diplomée de l'école des beaux-arts de l'Université de Stellenbosch, elle a été sélectionnée dans deux compétitions majeures en Afrique du sud: l'atelier Absa ainsi que la Sasol New Signature. Maitrisant plusieurs techniques picturales, notamment la peinture à l'huile et la peinture à l'eau, son art se concentre sur un jeu entre images et mots. Elle a écrit le livre "Paper is you" (en collaboration avec Wessel Snyman). Ce livre s'est placé à la fois dans la section Africana de la bibliothèque JS Gericke ainsi que dans la plus grande bibliothèque de livres poétiques, Raymond Danowski Poetry Library (à l'Université Emory: librairie unique avec une collection historique et contemporaine de livres poétiques ). En groupe, elle exposa de concert avec "Spookasem" au Salon 91 (Le Cap, Afrique du sud). En solo, elle exposa au Syndrome (Montreal, Canada) lors du "Cheap as Candy", mais aussi au salon de thé branché "Une grenouille dans la théière" (Montréal, Canada). Elle participa aussi à: 30 x 30 (Galerie de l'Université de Stellenbosch, Afrique du sud), Postcard Show et Faces and Places au Off the Wall Gallery (Paarl, Afrique du sud), l'exposition Greatest Hits à l'association des arts visuels (AVA) (Le Cap, Afrique du sud).