Caroline CHRISTIE

Introducing...

21 - 27 May 2010

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  Taken, At Least it Seems 2007, oil on canvas, 110 x 110 cm

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  If You Know Enough to be Interested You Will Know Where to Look 2008, oil on canvas, 110 x 110 cm

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  The Experience of Looking 2010, mixed media on canvas, 80 x 200 cm

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  The Force Behind 2008, oil, metallic paint on canvas, 60 x 250 cm

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  It is in My Interest 2010, oil on canvas, 110 x 110 cm

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  The Three Functions of Being You 2010, mixed media on canvas, 150 x 150 cm

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  Where Do I Begin? 2007, mixed media on canvas, 70 x 200 cm

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  And Even Before That 2010, oil, metallic paint on canvas, 60 x 220 cm

About the Exhibition

Axia Modern Art introduces one of Western Australias leading Expressionist painters, Caroline Christie. Christie's paintings are sensitive and evocative. She uses delicate painterly drips and threads them together to form lacelike 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

BIOGRAPHY

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.