Café Zorba 2021
Kate McCrickard
* 1974 in Kasama, Zambia
Charcoal and coloured pastel on paper. Size of sheet: 85 x 92 cm.
Signed and dated.
£ 2,000.-
McCrickard is a painter, printmaker and writer who grew up in Kasama,
Zambia and studied an MA in Fine Art at the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland where she was awarded both the John Kinross Scholarship and
MacLean Watters Medal and the Sir John Ford Travel Scholarship to Spain.
She is now based in Paris, France.
Her work can be found in
numerous major collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
The New York Public Library, The British Museum, Los Angeles County
Museum, The Davison Art Centre, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, and
The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. As a writer, she was a regular
contributor to the American global journal ideas, Art in Print and has
also written for Print Quarterly, Art South Africa and exhibition
catalogues for Hayward Touring, London, Thames and Hudson and the Royal
Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. She wrote a monograph on the South African
artist William Kentridge for Tate Publishing in 2010.