Contact: sandychristie.abc@gmail.com

Artist Statement

Memory and dreams act as reference material for my work which is often in the form of coloured pencil drawings, paintings and large scale cut outs/murals. I delve into the timeline of my own life and combine this with events, timelines of others and society as a whole.
One of my main interests is in the spectre of dreams. This interest pushes assumed realities along a knife edge mixing facts with fictions and giving the feeling not knowing if you are awake or dreaming. It is this uncertainty and the achievement of balancing these two opposites which is key to my work.

Current Practice

I use basic materials as a vehicle for ideas which I develop through drawing. I demonstrate this in my free standing cut-out murals, by using only card, tape, cane and paint. The primitive methods I use are reminiscent of cave painting and have a more than passing resemblance to graffiti art. Scale and environment are also important in giving the works a monumental and mythical presence.

 

Artists CV

2009

 

The Buy More Art Campaign 

Paper x 2 magazine launch @The bowery

Paper x the movie (promotional film)

Self made cavalcade, New art from Scotland, Akademie Galerie, Munich

Artoscopic 3 St Leonard’s (innocents Railway tunnel)

Scotcampus, Sandys strange Scotland centre page 

Ten Tails DVD, film, wartales,

Supermarket, Stockholm, Germany,

Boneless Box, embassy gallery,

Kiss of a lifetime, rogue gallery, Manchester, London  

Echo @ collective gallery, film padlocks   

 

2008

The Skinny - Sandy Christie - Local art hero, article, Sept issue

Blue notebook journal - artists page

Bloid artists zine - Liverpool Biennale

Artoscopic 2 - as part of Embassy gallery Annuale

One o clock gun - Sandy Meets jekylll and hyde

Zine workshop - Edinburgh College of Art

Collective Gallery / Deadhead Comics - 4 new titles exhibition / book launch

Echo - all can film night

Embassy gallery - here we spontane

Glasgow international artists book fair

Paper X - project initiated

CCA Glasgow, Book fair

 

2007

Wee red Herring Sandy Meets special Graham Dey ECA, SRC

CCA book fair Sandy Meets 2 17th nov

One o Clock gun special Sandy Meets Tom Wier

Forest Cafe Sandy Meets 2 readings

Deadhead comics, Sandy meets 2 book launch second leg

Collective gallery sandy meets 2 book launch

Embassy members show, gold members,

One oclock gun festival edition sandy meets

Artoscopic group exhibition st Leonard’s tunnel Edinburgh, Annuale,

Ana talla solias gallery, group exhibition, Ullapool,

Leith festival art weekender, Edinburgh

Textual healing, Embassy gallery, Edinburgh,

CCA Bookfair, Glasgow

Wee red lounge, group exhibition + drawing club

Fresh fest, Reading film festival, short film, Motherland

2006

Embassy members show

Barclay arts festival Edinburgh

Forest café the naturals short film, Edinburgh

Leith festival exhibition, Edinburgh

Embassy film night, Sidney we love you video / performance

2005

Outrageous art exhibition, were all hiding, Edinburgh

The castle, student collaboration project

Psyche Gallery group show Middlesbrough

Embassy Gallery members show

2004

 

2003

Royal Lyceum Theatre, here and now, Edinburgh

Royal Scottish Academy, students exhibition Edinburgh

Edinburgh College of Art, Sculpture Degree show
 

2002

Arizona museum of Art, student’s exhibition.USA

Devils dreaming, warehouse exhibition, Phoenix Arizona. USA

2001

Group exhibition, Wasp’s Gallery, Stockbridge, Edinburgh.

Return of the Ken, exhibition Tollcross, Edinburgh.

2000

Kirkcaldy Art Museum, exhibition, Fife.

Rothes Halls, community art project, Fife.

 

 

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