Description
About Christine
Artist Statement and Workshop Background
The Knit Play: texture + tools + tension workshop is informed by artist Christine Wiltshier’s idiosyncratic studio making, in which she explores ways to (gently) subvert the ordered complexity and search for perfection inherent in traditional textile hand crafts, such as hand knitting and embroidery. Embracing a multidisciplinary approach that involves sculpture, performative installations, video and wall-based works, Christine deconstructs the processes of mistake-making, unmaking and remaking. She highlights in particular the unwanted and often frustrating knots, tangles and dropped stitches and the ensuing struggles that these ‘errors’ elicit. Her imperfect artworks also promote the beauty to be found when creating with irregular rhythms and flow.
Christine has also created a number of participatory artworks that share the notion of the generative potential of mistake-making and making-struggles. The (mistake) Making Station and Knit Play: texture + tools + tension workshop have been included in solo exhibitions and also as part of Arterie artist residency programs at Chris O’Brien LifeHouse and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney.
Christine Wiltshier holds a Master of Fine Arts (Research) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Textiles (Honours) from UNSW Art, Design and Architecture. She has held a number of solo exhibitions and been part of multiple group exhibitions. She has also been a finalist in the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, the Seed Stitch Contemporary Textile Award, Petite Textile Awards and the Ravenswood Women’s Art Prize.
