Tatum Catano

Tatum Catano was born in Johannesburg on the 23rd of September 1998, matriculating from Crawford College Lonehill in 2016. In the past four years the artist has completed her four-year BA Fine Arts Degree along with majoring in Psychology. Tatum was part of the Labyrinth Project group exhibition at Ellis house in 2020 and she has also participated in multiple student exhibitions such as the Javett Art Centre in 2020 and the Anton Van Wouw Museum in 2018 and 2019.

During her degree, Tatum was involved in a community engagement project at the Baviaansport Correctional Facility where she found the expanded usefulness of art in real-life settings. The artist creates artworks which interrogate the idea of constructed gender roles and how this contributes to the oppression’s women in South Africa face. Tatum works mainly in the medium of wood where she strives to create sculptures showing abstract forms, consisting of sensually curving surfaces, negative spaces and forceful volumes which stand as a result of the artists body’s investment in a material where there is a transformation to fragility.