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Style and technique of the artist: Sculpture Objects,
Christina Mackie
Saatchi Gallery
Christina Mackie
Falling Boundary
Christina Mackie
Christina Mackie’s sculptural installations weave an intricate web of associations between their diverse physical components, which comprise natural, man-made and crafted elements…
Christina Mackie
The first room of Christina Mackie’s solo show ‘This That and the Other’ at Herald St comprised three sculptural works – a triangular arrangement in which vertices gave rise to strange growths and dimensionality was always on the slide. Figure 1 (2007) was an almost life-size hippopotamus formed from grey resin, a substance that appeared to pool on its back and drip from it haunches onto the gallery floor, as though this meaty, three-dimensional creature were in the process of devolving into a liquid plane. (It’s worth remembering that this semi-aquatic mammal’s name means ‘river horse’ in Latin.)…