Provenance

Rust-en-Vrede Gallery, Cape Town, 2019.

Private Collection.

Notes

"The work of Cape Town artist Caryn Scrimgeour is a playfully deceptive and decidedly contemporary take on one of the oldest genres in art history – the still life. Scrimgeour creates intricate birds-eye views of objects scattered on patterned fabrics – the aftermath of strange dinner parties. Her paintings resist the conventional notion that the genre, also known as nature morte (or ‘dead nature’), is empty of life."^1.

^1. Lena Sulik (2023) Caryn Scrimgeour, About, online, https://www.carynscrimgeour.co.za/about, accessed 16 August 2024.