ARTIST STATEMENT
Ethereal Keith’s work in this project aims to create a counterpoint to a world driven by the need for certainty, for surety. A world where we find comfort in the tangible and material Where the more commonly held a belief is, the truer and safer it becomes. While these pursuits give us comfort, they rob us of our curiosity. They come at the cost of forgetting the immensity of who we are. In these paintings, the wraith-like figures and mirage landscapes tease us into the corners of our consciousness. To a peripheral world, distant but familiar. A world we remain connected to by a thread of long-dormant
memories. Like half-remembered pieces of a dream. These works are an invitation to reconnect with the fringes of ourselves.
To expand into the many layers of our own rich mysteries.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
I am a Cape Town-based artist. My art is inspired by the rich diversity of shapes, colour, tones, and interactions that make up my living experience. The things that excite me a desire to capture and communicate. I believe that we share a common primal language, and that visual experience ignites in us memories of that language. My art is an invitation to share a moment, to participate in a silent conversation between expression and experience. Through abstract expression, my art explores the beauty of the ordinary. It aims to evoke in the viewer a familiarity. Not through recognition of objects but
through a common visceral experience. Every viewer and every view will yield a different response. It is this diversity of visual experiences that drives the conversation that unites us.
