During her residency in The Everybody Gallery, artist Christine Halsey will be developing a new set of work ahead of a major exhibition in the gallery later in the year. Her playful interventions in the gallery using everyday objects and waste materials will draw attention to its architectural characteristics, defects, and qualities of light.

Working on the project Putting my House in Order, Christine will be working on a personal exploration of the universal struggle to negotiate between intuition and the rational. She’ll explore ways to make sense of chaos, uncertainty and impermanence.

Christine will be creating a multimedia installation. Many of the gallery’s windows will be covered by layering cardboard, tape, and plastic sheeting, providing an opportunity to experiment with reflected colour and qualities of light, and transforming the large windows into works of art themselves. The darkened space will provide a backdrop for further experimentation with artificial light, developing pieces of work started during a residency at IOU Creation Centre earlier this year. Using a rotating table and spotlights, Christine will study effects of light through translucent materials, casting  colliding shadow ‘landscapes’ on the gallery walls and a range of collages and embossed prints.

About the Artist

Christine Halsey is a multimedia artist who recently completed an MFA from Sheffield Hallam University, graduating with Distinction. She works across sculpture, assemblage, print and video, and uses her instinctive and emotional response to material, form and space.

Christine’s work is extremely site-responsive. Her creations are multifarious and generative, borrowing from an eclectic but interconnected range of topics and sources. Addressing themes of complexity, contradiction and ambiguity, her work explores transience, intangibility and ‘the in-between’—the liminal spaces on the threshold of opposing extremes where our understanding of a thing shifts and mutates.

It is often the complexities inherent in human relationships that fuel Christine’s work. Themes of conflict, power dynamics, and nurture are translated into three-dimensional forms, often using ready-made objects which are deconstructed or subjected to destructive processes. These are often displayed as part of an assemblage with other objects or materials, highlighting the complex nature of their relationship.

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