Gabrielle Goliath is a visual artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has a degree in Fine Art from Wits University, and is currently engaged in their MAFA masters programme. Before moving on to Fine Art,  she completed a Diploma in Fashion Design at Wits Tech.

Recent bodies of work have focussed on issues of personal and cultural identity, as well as those of violence and victimization. Much of her work is photographic in nature, however the construction and presentation of it, often in glass and perspex housings, is an important element of her work.

Gabrielle has taken part in a number of group shows and workshops, was represented at the Joburg Art Fair and recently exhibited in the 'Four Tales' show at Gallery Momo, curated by Thembinkosi Goniwe. Whilst in her fourth year of studies at Wits, she was joint winner of the Martienssen Prize, and also won the Art's Alive JHB City Art Competition in 2007.

Currently she is working on a research paper entitled 'the Sublime Politic' and a new body of work 'Murder on Seventh'. Playing with the 'whodunnit', murder-mystery tradition, Murder on Seventh investigates within the South African psyche (troubled as it is by crime and violence) our need for closure, our desire for the restoration of order.

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