Christie Lange Artist
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Bio
Christie Lange is a Tasmanian sculptor and ceramic artist. Her practice embraces notions of biodiversity, hybridity and the agency of the non-human. Lange’s methodology employs practice-led research allowing for the coalescing of the material of clay with ideas of adaptation and evolution; these components fused in the hand of the artist birth hybrid inventions of the mycological, zoological and botanical.
The thematic threads of degeneration and regeneration within reproductive cycles which began her career, remain entwined within her practice. Her work tenderly examines refrains of redemption, restoration and renewal through material investigations merged with a mycelial imagination. Lange’s most recent work promotes the agency of the more-than-human, envisioning adaptation and hybridity as an alternate future.
Education
2019 Bachelor of Contemporary Arts – Visual Art • University of Tasmania
2020 Bachelor of Contemporary Arts with Honours, First Class • University of Tasmania
Exhibitions
Solo
2021 ‘Hybrid Organisms’
Poatina Tree Gallery, Poatina, Tasmania
2019 ‘Tenuous Nature: biomorphic imaginings in ceramic form’
Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania
2019 ‘Waiting for Hope: an introspective on the cycles of fertility’
Poatina Tree Gallery, Poatina, Tasmania
2018 ‘Waiting for Hope: an introspective on the cycles of fertility’
Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2016 ‘A Space Cut Out’
Under the Oak, Ulverstone, Tasmania
2015 ‘Sacred Conversations – A Glistening hope’
The Poatina Tree Gallery, Poatina, Tasmania
Group
2023 Art Trails Tasmania Group Exhibition – Art as Mania Gallery, Deloraine Tasmania
2023 QAC ‘My World – Voice and Visibility’ - QVMAG Community Gallery Launceston Tasmania
2022 ‘Biophilia’ – Poimena Gallery – Curator & Artist, Launceston Tasmania
2022 QAC ‘Grounded: Place is space’ – QVMAG Community Gallery Launceston Tasmania
2021 ‘Involvement’ - RANT Headquarters, Devonport, Tasmania
2020 UTAS Honours Graduate Show - Academy Gallery, Inveresk, Tasmania
2019 ‘Memory, Space & Nature’ – Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2019 ‘Catalyst’ – Committee Members - Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2018 3D Exhibition - Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2018 ‘Abstract Nature’ - Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2018 Sawtooth Members Exhibition - Sawtooth ARI, Launceston, Tasmania
2018 ‘Activate’ Committee Members - Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2017 Committee Members - Powerhouse Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania
2016 ‘Poatina Found’ Group Exhibition - The Poatina Tree Gallery, Poatina, Tasmania
2016 ‘Place and Movement’ Group Exhibition - The Poatina Tree Gallery, Poatina, Tasmania
2014 ‘Emerge’ Group Exhibition - Inaugural Launceston Easter Community
Festival Albert Hall, Launceston, Tasmania
Art Prizes, Awards & Scholarships
2024 Bay of Fires Art Prize - Finalist
2023 Arts Tasmania Education Residency Grant – Winnaleah District School
2022 Birch’s Bay Art Prize – Finalist
2021 ‘Boxed In’ Art Prize Finalist & People’s Choice Award
2020 Scotch Oakburn - Honours Prize
2020 University of Tasmania - Executive Dean’s Honour Roll
2020 Birches Bay Art Prize – Finalist
2020 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania – Finalist
2019 Tasmanian Honours Scholarship
2019 Arts Honours Scholarship
2019 University of Tasmania - Executive Dean’s Honour Roll
2019 Powerhouse Art Prize – Highly Commended
2019 Birches Bay Art Prize – Acquisitive Award
2018 Artentwine Biennial Art Prize – Finalist
2017 Powerhouse Gallery Art Prize - Finalist
2015 Powerhouse Gallery Art Prize - Finalist
2014 ‘Emerge’ Group Exhibition - Curators Award