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,
Wee red lounge, group exhibition + drawing club
Fresh fest, Reading film festival, short film, Motherland
2006
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.
