Christine Dixie

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Christine Dixie
Born1966 (age 58–59)
Cape Town
Citizenship South Africa
Education University of Cape Town (MFA)
Occupations etcher and printmake

Christine Dixie (born 1966) is a South African printmaker.

Background

Born in Cape Town, Dixie received her BFA from the University of the Witwatersrand; following this she attended the University of Cape Town for graduate school, receiving both her post-graduate degree and her MFA from that institution in 1993. She works primarily as an etcher and printmaker, and has produced numerous large-scale installations. [1] Her 2009 installation work The Binding, consisting of six sculptures, six altars, six etchings, and two digital prints, [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] was purchased in 2010 by the National Museum of African Art. [1] [9] The museum also owns copies of her 2000 mezzotint Hide: to withhold or withdraw from sight, [10] her 2001 work Unravel, [11] and her 2007 work Even in the Long Descent I-V [12] Her work may also be found in the collections of the New York Public Library, the Johannesburg Art Museum, and the Isiko National Art Museum. [13] Dixie has taught at Rhodes University in Grahamstown during her career. [1] [14] In 2012, she was one of 15 artists awarded an Artist Research Fellowship by the Smithsonian Institution. [15] Her project, entitled The Heroic Explorer and Angelic Girl, focused on 19th-century gender stereotypes and used materials at the National Portrait Gallery and Museum of American History.

Bevan de Wet, a Johannesburg-based print-maker, is one of her former students. [16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  2. ↑ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  5. ↑ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "Christine Dixie". Christine Dixie. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  11. ↑ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  12. ↑ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  13. ↑ "Christine Dixie « Black Portraiture[s] Conferences". www.blackportraitures.info. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  14. ↑ "Christine Dixie - Art Africa". 1 December 2007. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  15. ↑ "Smithsonian Awards 15 Artist Research Fellowships". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  16. ↑ Corrigall, Mary (26 July 2017). "ART EXHIBITION - Print maker on new voyage into unknown waters". Business Day.


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