Mycozoophyte Artificialii, Christie Lange (#071)

Mycozoophyte Artificialii
Christie Lange
147mmL x 128mmW x 86mmH
Porcelain + special effects glaze

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Christie Lange b.1974 in Croydon, Victoria. Christie is a sculptor and ceramic artist. Graduating from UTAS in 2019 with a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts - Visual Art. In 2020, Christie was awarded the Arts Honours Scholarship and the Tasmanian Honours Scholarship successfully completing her BCA Honours year with First Class Honours and furthermore was awarded the Scotch Oakburn Honours Award. During her studies she won the 2019 Tasmanian Birches Bay Small Sculpture Acquisitive Prize. Christie was a finalist in 2018 Artentwine, 2020 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania and the 2021 Inaugural ‘Boxed In’ Sculpture prize winning the People’s Choice Award.

Her practice embraces biodiversity, hybridity and the agency of the non-human. Bringing together material investigations with a mycelial imagination, refrains of the mycological, zoological and botanical are present in her hybrid inventions. Christie imagines her hybrid organisms she calls, Mycozoophyte Artificialii feed on manufactured materials. Highlighting the planets need for biodiversity, she tenderly examines redemption, restoration and renewal as her works in clay reveal natures infinitesimal expressions. Through her work, Christie hopes to give voice to the non-human and inspire appreciation for the natural world.