Christy’s practice takes her across Britain and sometimes the world, sitting amongst people, listening to their stories, giving them new life and vibrancy through drawing. From head, to hand, to audience, she communicates through images, seeking to illuminate and inform, offering a new and fresh perspective on what was always there, unseen and unnoticed. She draws the lives of people that are hidden in plain sight.
In 2016 she was awarded the RCA Gordon Peter Pickard award to travel on the QM2 transatlantic, in 2017 she was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, in 2018 she became the annual resident artist in Quentin Blake’s public gallery House of Illustration and in 2019 she was included in both the Creekside Open and the Wells Contemporary Open. She is currently researching the various political communities of Brexit.
In 2016 she was awarded the RCA Gordon Peter Pickard award to travel on the QM2 transatlantic, in 2017 she was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, in 2018 she became the annual resident artist in Quentin Blake’s public gallery House of Illustration and in 2019 she was included in both the Creekside Open and the Wells Contemporary Open. She is currently researching the various political communities of Brexit.
“Who has seen the wind?” acrylic on canvas 150x100cm 2019. Selected for the Wells Contemporary Open 2019
”Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide” D.W.Winnicott