Christine Dixie is an established South African artist, who has regularly exhibited in that country, the US and Europe.

She is known for haunting imagery relating to the construction of masculine and feminine roles, exposing how they have been cultivated via myths and image-making. The colonial history that haunts the town of Makhanda, where she lives and works has compelled her preoccupation with Europe’s legacy in Africa. In teasing out both of these thematic interests she relies on archival imagery and in-depth research, arriving at her distinctive aesthetic which, like thepresent, is steeped in history.

Dixie has a proclivity for printmaking, but she often works at incorporating her print works with tactile qualities, through embossing, embroidery or other forms of presentation that deny a flat surface. Her interest in printmaking relates to her preoccupation with texts, particularly those relating to artworks and manifests in her ‘book’ works, and her drive to blur the boundaries between text and images.

Typically, Dixie’s print series are part of a body of work that also finds expression through films or elaborate installations. In this way her art isn’t limited to a specific medium, and as with films has a narrative quality to it, presenting a developing story, which advances with each image, further blurring the boundaries between the present and the past.

Her work is included in national and international collections including The New York Public Library, The Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, The Iwalewahaus Museum , The Standard Bank Gallery, The Johannesburg Art gallery, and The Iziko National Gallery,

For more on her exhibitions and projects www.christinedixie.com