Abigale Calisse is a South African multidisciplinary artist whose work explores generational trauma, memory, and the inherited language of domestic craft. Having lived between South Africa and Mauritius before returning home, her practice bridges geography and emotion-anchored in the shared, silent legacies carried through womanhood.

Working primarily in lithography and crochet, Abigale intertwines printmaking with tactile textile traditions to investigate themes of gender-based violence (GBV) and childhood trauma. Her work reflects on how trauma is not only experienced individually, but also passed down generationally-transmitted through the same hands that stitch, mend, and make. By printing lithographs on crocheted surfaces, she transforms the pattern itself into metaphor: each variation represents the shifting, cyclical nature of inherited pain and the resilience woven through it. At the core of her process is repetition-an act of quiet persistence. The meticulous, rhythmic motions of her mediums mirror the slow labour of healing Through this, her studio becomes both a site of making and a space of recovery.

Each thread, each print, becomes an intimate offering-an invitation to witness, remember, and begin again