Passions, Journeys and Imaginings

Overview

Weekly walks in the bush, the constant watching of people and birds, the love of carving, and a lifetime as an artist have combined to create the artworks in this exhibition by Christine Upton.

Christine's passions include native birds and flowers, patterns, circles and colours. Her journeys include both the physical and the emotional responses to her surrounds. There is always something that stimulates Christine's imagination including: her need to make social comments, her need to pay homage to nature, and her need to play.

Christine uses birds to tell stories and abstract blossoms and circles to explore the idea of memories. Her latest work involves the depiction of memories and their association with blossoms that fade and disappear over time. This concept has been evolving since 2016 when she first started playing with the idea. It has involved responses to teenage years with a mother with memory loss, to losing a soul mate, and to just the understanding of memory itself.

"All of my work involves exploration and play as without these, for me, art would simply become a boring production line that creates visual images."