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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'.

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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
Please click the image below to view the publication slideshow.


'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.


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.