Art2Muse

French-Australian Christine has travelled extensively for the last 20 years. Her sensitive and expressive paintings breathe the passion of those who pace our planet and quietly observe the relationship between humans and the natural environment. Her work, documented in catalogues and art reviews, has a strong contemporary feel that speaks in all languages.

Her unique style and her paintings continue to garner interest, critical acclaim, grants and award wins nationally and internationally and her works can be found in numerous private and corporate collections worldwide.

Christine Maudy's extensive artistic career began as a fashion designer in Paris. After years of work and travel through Africa, Asia and Europe, she moved to Queensland with her husband in 1995 to pursue her passion and concentrate solely on painting.

Christine is interested in using the visual structure and patterns found in her natural environment to inspire the format of her paintings. She uses the sensuous, expressive flow of paint, line drawing and colour to recount her own experiences, to explore her relationship to this land, and to provoke an emotional response.
Christine often starts her abstracts with a layer of collage, sand and impasto until the shapes created suggest forms to her imagination. She then develops the work with subtle layers of intermixed colours in acrylic, oil and glazing.

Christine uses a variety of mixed materials including pigment, Chinese paper, gold leaf and sand to create a surface which undulates. She draws details from landscapes, walls, objects, images and prints and incorporates these into the creative process to build a cohesive composition.

Her abstract compositions and collages are narrative and meditative, with soulful themes of journey, discovery and placement. They do not only depict abstract reminiscences of places seen, they embrace the beauty and fragility of the natural world and the poetics of everyday.

Christine's works mirror shapes and colours of nature. They come alive in a beautiful balance between fluidity and careful geometric composition. Their surfaces shine and radiate, transmitting an energy which at times culminates into turbulence.

The stunning and inventive use of lines and texture in Christine's work form a rich and complex configuration of space, make her abstracts exceptionally powerful and provoke a strong sense of peace and tranquility, intensity and timelessness within the viewer.

Born Paris 26/04/1952

Tertiary Studies Paris Universty

Member of ArtWorkers Queensland # 4531m
Member of Nava # 24294
Member Flying Arts Member
FONAS
Member of ACEA,
Federaci Internacional d'Entitats Artístiques i Artistes Plàstics, Spain

1978-82 Paris - Fashion Designer (own label)
1983-95 Paris - Manage a PR company.
1995 moves to Australia
2007 National Art School Sydney Botanica Exotica S.Archer
2007 Printing workshop Belinda Fox Noosa Regional Gallery
2009 Monoprinting with Sarah Rumsey

Solo Exhibitions:

April 2001 Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, Qld
May 2001 Michael Fox Galleries, Brisbane Qld
Feb. 2002 First Exposure Maroochydore Qld
Nov. 2002, 'Earth Song' Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide, SA
Feb. 2003 Gallery 482, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Qld
March 2003 Galeri­a Catarsis, Madrid Spain
April 2004 Bark Modern Art, Hong Kong
Aug 2004, Gallery 482, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Qld
June 2005 Galeri­a Catarsis, Madrid, Spain
Sept. 2005 Gallery 1011, Armadale, Melbourne, Vic
Nov. 2005 'Earth Song' Caloundra Regional Art Gallery, Qld
Feb 2006 Galerie France-Decoration, Mooloolaba, Qld
May 2006 Gallery Catherine Asquith, Melbourne Vic
June 2006 Gora Gallery, Montreal Canada
April 2007 Art2 Muse MLC Gallery, Sydney, Nsw
Oct. 2007 Gallery Catherine Asquith, Melbourne, Vic
April 2008 Gallery PromenArts, Balmain, Nsw
June 2008 Galeria catarsis, Madrid Spain
April 2009 Gallery Promenarts, La Roche-sur-Yon, France
May 2009 Gallery PromenArts, Balmain, Nsw
June 2009 Galerie Art Present Paris France
July 2010 GaleriaZero, Barcelona Spain

Selected Group Exhibitions in Australia:

2001 Genesis II, Bond University Art Gallery, Gold Coast
2001 Turning Point, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery
2002 Peace Of Art Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld
2002 Stanthorpe Arts Festival, Qld
2002 Qantas Founders Outback Museum, Travelling Exhibition Qld
2002 Noosa News Art Exhibition, Noosa Regional Gallery Qld
2002 DPI Year of The Outback , Dalby Regional Gallery Qld
2002 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide SA
2003 Affordable Arts Show, Sydney Nsw
2004 Genesis V City Gold Coast Gallery Qld
2004 Global Galleries, Sydney NSW
2004 Melbourne Affordable Arts Show, VIC
2004 Gallery TenEleven, Armadale (Melbourne) VIC
2004 Sydney Affordable Art Show, Sydney NSW
2005 Melbourne Affordable Art Show, Melbourne VIC
2005 Sydney Art Show '05, Sydney NSW
2005 Qantas Founders Outback Museum Arts Awards
2005 Flying Arts Awards Exhibition, Brisbane Qld
2005 Brisbane Art Fair '05, Brisbane Qld
2005 Art With Heart, Towoomba Australia Qld
2005 Artists Against Sedition Casula Powerhouse NSW
2006 Abstraction Global Gallery Sydney NSW
2006 Cerebral Palsy League Powerhouse Brisbane Qld
2006 Changing Nature Greenpeace The Gallery Sydney NSW
2006 Regional Art Awards Raw Space Gallery Brisbane Qld
2006 Greenpeace / Darling Park Gallery , Sydney NSW
2007 Regional Art Awards Rockhampton Art Gallery Qld
2007 Regional Art Awards Metro Art Gallery Brisbane Qld
2008 FoodWaterShelter Sydney school of Arts, Rozelle, NSW
2008 "France on Douglas", Luba's Art Gallery, Milton QLD
2008 Balmain Art and Craft Show, Balmain, NSW
2008 Robyn Bauer Brisbane, Qld
2010 French Australian Chamber of Commerce Brisbane

International:

2002 'Gran Coleccionable'Galeri­a Catarsis, Madrid, Spain
2002 XI Salon Internacional de Artes Pli¡sticas, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Collectiva d'Artistes Galeria Artitude, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Diversite de L'art Contemporain, Galerie Artitude Paris France
2003 Galeri­a Lebasi de Palma de Mallorca (Baleares), Spain
2003 Trofeo Remo-Brindisi, Bologna, Italia
2003 Salon International de Artes Plasticas Barcelona, Spain
2003 Salon Internacional de Artes Pli¡sticas, Barcelona, Spain
2003 Bark Modern Art, Hong Kong
2004 Gran Coleccionable Galeria Catarsis, Madrid, Spain
2004 VIII Edicion ARCALE, Salamanca, Spain
2005 Gran Coleccionable Galería Catarsis, Madrid, Spain
2006 ACA Gallery Toronto, Canada
2006 Australian art Fest, Austrade Toronto, Canada
2006 A gift of Color Gallery Mondo Arte Austrade Dubai, UAE
2007 "Visioni dell'umanita'" , travelling exhibition, Italy

Awards:

2002 2nd Prize Qantas Link Open, Artswest Longreach
2002 Mencio d'Honor a l'Abstraccia, XI Salon Internacional de Artes Plisticas, Barcelona, Spain
2003 2nd Prize a l'Abstraccia, XIII Sali Internacional d'Arts Spain
2004 Two works selected for the Cromwell Art Prize.
2007 finalist Regional Art award Brisbane Qld

Grant:

Export Market Development Grant ACT 1997, 2004, 2005 and 2008

Collections:

Australian Trade Commission Madrid (Austrade), KPMG, Minter Ellison Lawyers, MacDonnells Solicitors, Anembo Consultant, Australand, BP Shopfitting , private collections in Australia, Hong Kong, France, Spain, Canada and Switzerland.