Christine has been a full time professional artist since 1990. In that time the main part of her full time art practice has been an exploration of the iconic Australian Shearing Shed. This has taken her from Mt Isa to Tasmania: a journey of artwork about more than 100 different shearing sheds to date, from the famous and the everyday, the architect designed to temporary bough-sheds, the company owned to the family operated. Each shed tells its own story, and is another thread describing the complexity and historical importance of sheep and wool in Australia since Federation.
Career highlights include election to the Australian Watercolour Institute in 1996, more than one hundred and twenty prizes in competitions, artwork in Australian and international collections.
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Formerly described as “artwork about ideas”, these are projects that occur concurrently with the site/sight based work. (The main narrative in Christine’s artwork is created about a particular site, and is about what the artist sees).
Sometimes the SIDE QUEST evolves, and is extended, from the rural project. The Shadowing Tom series of engraved boxes about painting at “Newstead” are a case in point.
Sometimes they are in response to what is happening in Christine’s life – such as the Flood China that described the aftermath of the terrible 2022 Lismore floods.
The “Side Quests” enrich Christine’s practice, they are a way for her to explore her world, and they, like all good side quests, become as important as the main quest, for the time she is on them.
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