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News
AXIA MODERN ART
1010 High Street
Armadale, Victoria
28 May - 4 June 2010
INTRODUCING
...CAROLINE CHRISTIE
New Paintings
'Axia Modern Art is proud to introduce one of Western
Australia’s leading Expressionist painters, Caroline Christie. Christie's
paintings are sensitive and evocative. She uses delicate painterly drips
and threads them together to form lace-like filigree to evoke a sense of
atmospheric turbulence'.
Read more...
Click to enlarge If
You Know Enough To Be Interested &
I Hear
Her Stories
Click to enlarge Utopia,
The
Force Behind & The
Experience Of Looking
Book
Launch
February 2010
PROCESSING
PAINT
The Life and
Works of Caroline Christie: Processing Paint by arts writer
Rebecca deRooy, was recently released in Western Australia. This news
was publicised in local and interstate publications, in particular the
West Australian arts editor Stephen Bevis describing the book as, ‘a work
of art in itself’ (10 February 2010).
Prior to release, copies were sold to 13 state and
national libraries and can now be found in Perth’s finest bookstores and
specialist art gallery shops, including:
Art Gallery of WA book shop
Aspects of Kings Park
The Lane Book Store, Claremont
The Book Cafe, Swanbourne
Collins Book store, Cottesloe
Millpoint Café and Bookstore
'As an Australian Abstract
Expressionist Painter, Processing Paint follows the development of my
artwork from the narrative driven pieces
to my current automative works. I enable my medium to express itself on
canvas. Using chemical combinations and manipulations of gravity, reactions
are captured and paint is encouraged to share it’s nature. Based
on psychoanalytic principles the viewer is asked to project a personal
meaning using the stimuli of colour, texture and light'. Caroline
Christie.
Based on a series of artist interviews the book is separated into four
distinct sections. The first three sections provide an in depth
discussion of the artists life experiences, philosophical position and
her process of painting respectively, that underpin the work.
In illustration of this, the final section follows the historical development
of the paintings and the threads of visual elements that follow through.
Processing Paint is a welcome addition to the very short list of
published West Australian artists. Written by respected arts writer
Rebecca deRooy, it is an interesting insight into Abstract Expressionism;
and designed to be visually stimulating it may also be enjoyed as a coffee
table book.
Preparations to release The
Life and Works of Caroline Christie: Processing Paint in the
Eastern states are underway.
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| Rebecca deRooy, Caroline Christie and Iwona Polski | Book signing at Outpourings solo exhibition |
The Life and Works of Caroline Christie: Processing Paint provides
an unique insight into the artist and her artwork as it has been developed
from the early narrative driven, painted canvasses through to her current
large, explosive and automative works.
The ambiguity usually surrounding abstraction begins to dissolve when
exposed to this beautifully presented catalogue of paintings. This book
offers an opportunity which is difficult to access in an exhibition and
rarely explored for Western Australian living artists with over one hundred
paintings displayed and discussed.
Upcoming Exhibition
WITH EDMENTS
ART GALLERY
The Burswood Group Show - 20 April to17
May 2010.
Artitude - 12 and 13 June 2010.
Art Auction
GLADFLY ART GALLERY
Waratah Avenue, Dalkeith. Auctioneer Mr John Cook - 17 May 2010.
Caroline Christie will be donating the painting below and 10 of her recently published books The Life and Works of Caroline Christie: Processing Paint to the THE NAKURU, KENYA FAMILY PROJECT fund raising event:
The Next Thing That Comes Along - 800mm x 2000mm
The art auction is for the purpose of raising funds for the THE NAKURU, KENYA FAMILY PROJECT, initiated to give those who live in the slums of Kaptembwa, Nakuru, Kenya a reason to live and hope to survive.
This is to help make a change to the project that is 100% funded by donations and fundraising. The fundaiser hopes to raise enough money at the art auction to be able to purchase land on which to plant maize, kale and tomatoes to assist in feeding the families. The plan is within the 2 years to be in a position to build a Learning Centre and to incorporate a refuge for raped and battered women. To sustain the project the hope is to build a dormitory style home stay for volunteers who now come and work with the organization.