Renowned artist Christine Dixie has regularly exhibited in South Africa, the US and Europe. She is primarily a printmaker, but her art also finds expression through films or elaborate installations.

Her work challenges the ways gender roles have been historically conditioned by society, myths, and image-making. The manifestation of the colonial history that haunts the town of Makhanda in the Eastern Cape has compelled her preoccupation with Europe’s legacy in Africa.

Her practice and aesthetic rely on archival imagery and in-depth research. Her work is included in national and international collections including The New York Public Library, The Smithsonian National Museum, The Standard Bank Gallery, The Johannesburg Art Gallery, The Durban Art Gallery, The Iziko Museum of South Africa and The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Museum of Art.

To Be King, her most recent installation, was launched at the National Arts Festival, 2014. The video component was exhibited in Vienna in May 2015 as part of the Wiener Festwochen exhibition U/Tropia and was included in the travelling exhibition Eastern Europe/South Africa Exhibition: Between Democracies 1989 – 2014: Memory and Commemoration in Johannesburg in 2015.

Christine Dixie is also a Senior lecturer in the Fine Art Department at Rhodes University in Makhanda, South Africa.

https://christinedixie.com