Caroline Christie

Caroline Christie holds a Bachelor of Art and a BA Architecture from University of Cape Town. Ten years ago she moved from South Africa to Western Australia to pursue her Expressionist painting career. Christie has shown her work in several solo and group exhibitions in Perth, Melbourne and Cape Town. She recently had a book published about her practice entitled 'Processing Paint, The Life and Work of Caroline Christie'. Caroline Christie's work is part of numerous important public and private collections both nationally and internationally.

Caroline 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.

Christie's paintings begin as an uninhibited release, a place where she is able to express herself freely. She uses circles in many of her works to represent the self. The visual happenings captured on the surface of the canvas offer clues and pathways deeper into the self and her work with circles is a process of exploration and restoration to connection.

'Glorious circles are everywhere in the eyes that see us, the center of flowers, interconnecting links, wheels that turn, in the molecules that bind us and the spiraling cycles of our lives. I suspect that connection to self equals connection to all things.

I hope that my work may ignite in my audience with new mental and emotional recognitions; a place to ponder and rediscover self. For me, the wonderful part is that my circles become others peoples circles, when they enter the paintings and move through their own experience of the art'. Caroline Christie