Caroline Christie-Coxon

Lives and works in North Fremantle WA, Australia

Artist statement

My practice has developed over more than three decades through an ongoing enquiry into relationship as a fundamental condition of existence — between self and other, the individual and the collective, body and environment, humanity and the living world, material and consciousness, action and consequence. Working across painting, soft works, photography, video, performance and site-responsive installation, developed through direct encounters with material and place. Water, wind, gravity, sedimentation, desiccation, geological formations and changing atmospheric conditions operate not simply as subjects, but as active collaborators. I also use my body as a perceptual instrument through which I explore vulnerability, interdependence and belonging. Central to my practice is Circle Culture, an ongoing enquiry since 2009 that considers the circle as a field of relationship and consequence. Within this framework, the Fluid Loop and my more recent Soft Paintings extend painting beyond the fixed surface. Permeable textiles enter oceans, landscapes and atmospheric conditions, where they are activated and transformed through encounter. Increasingly, my work considers ecological disconnection alongside broader social and cultural structures of separation. I do not approach reconnection with nature as a retreat from contemporary realities, but as a way of examining how systems of hierarchy, extraction and division shape both human relationships and our relationship with the living...

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