Art2Muse

Artworks avaialble to view in Sydney

Since moving to Australia in 1995 French-born Christine Maudy has been very active on the local and international art scene.Her abstract works are witness to the perpetual search for balance between colour, texture and gesture. Each piece is a personal journey and creates a strongly individual interpretation of her natural surroundings, feelings and experiences travelling the world. She uses a variety of mixed materials including pigment, Chinese paper and sand to create a surface that undulates, with patterning and texture working toward a surface that both reveals and conceals.

I don't try to depict reality; I rely on color, contrast and texture to convey my feelings. My canvases are a mix of purely formal elements and potential narrative.

I often start my paintings with collage before developing the work with layers of intermixed colours in acrylic, oil, glazing and gold leaf. I use a variety of mixed materials including pigment, Chinese paper and sand to create a surface that undulates, with patterning and texture. Clearly separated forms coexist with fluidity, a combination of floating and solidity. The tactile quality of the work is part of the process.

I incorporate details extracted from landscapes, walls, objects, transposing them in geometrical shapes, lines, scratches, brush marks and movements. I work from within letting all the elements I have been gathering come back with my feelings.

I have an obsession for the square, the most perfect geometrical shape, and for lines. A line, boundary, edge or contour is an agent of location, energy and growth.
My key words are balance, contrast, and color. I construct my paintings carefully focusing on the visual qualities of shape and space, texture and light, free from the constraints of real world objectivity.
- Christine Maudy

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 South Australia, Adelaide, SA
March 2003 Gallery 482, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
March 2003 Galería Catarsis, Madrid, Spain
March 2004 "Cries & Whispers" Bark Modern Art, Hong Kong
Aug. 2004 "Cries & Whispers" Gallery 482, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane,Australia
June 2005 "Gritos Y Susuros" Galería Catarsis, Madrid, Spain
Sept 2005 Gallery TenEleven, Melbourne, Australia
Nov 2005 Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra, Australia
Feb 2006 Galerie France-Decoration, Mooloolaba, Australia
May 2006 Gallery Catherine Asquith, Melbourne, Australia
June 2006 Gora Gallery, Montreal, Quebec
September 2006 ACA Gallery Canada, Toronto
October 2006 "Australian Art Fest" in Toronto (organised by the Australian Trade Commission)
November 2006 Mondo Arte Gallery "A Gift of Colour" Dubai, UAE (organised by the Australian Trade Commission)
October 2007 Catherine Asquith Gallery in Melbourne, Australia
October 2006 "Australian Art Fest" Toronto, Canada
November 2006 2006 Regional Arts Award, Flying Arts, Raw Space Gallery, Brisbane
November 2006 "A Gift of Colour" Mondo Arte Gallery, Dubai UAE. Official opening by His Excellency the Australian Embassador to the UAE.
November 2006 “Changing Nature” Greenpeace Art For Action Sydney, Australia

Selected Group Exhibitions in Australia

May 2001 Genesis II, Bond University Art Gallery curated by John Walsh , City Gold Coast Gallery
Nov 2001 Flying Arts Award, Logan Art Gallery
Dec 2001 Art-In-Care, Cairns Base hospital
Feb 2002 “Turning Point”, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery
Jan 2002 “Peace Of Art” Noosa Regional Gallery, Qld
Mar 2002 Outback Odyssey Flight Of Imagination, Qantas Founders Outback Museum, Longreach
Oct 2002 DPI Year of The Outback , Dalby Regional Gallery
Nov 2002 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide SA
Aug 2003 Sydney Affordable Art Show, Sydney NSW
Feb2004 Genesis V, Bond University Art Gallery curated by John Walsh , City Gold Coast Gallery
Mar 2004 Global Galleries, Paddington Sydney
April 2004 Melbourne Affordable Art Show, Melbourne VIC
May 2004 Gallery TenEleven , Armadale (Melbourne) VIC
July 2004 Sydney Affordable Art Show, Sydney NSW
April 2005 Melbourne Affordable Art Show, Melbourne VIC
Aug 2005 Sydney Art Show '05, Sydney NSW
Sept 2005 Qantas Founders Outback Museum Arts Awards exhibition
Nov 2005 Flying Arts Awards Exhibition, Brisbane Australia
Dec 2005 Artists Against Sedition Laws Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Casula NSW Australia
Aug 2006 2006 Art for Art's Sake exhibition Cerebral Palsy League of Queensland @ Brisbane Powerhouse
Sept 2008 Art2Muse at the Tom Dunne Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney

Group Exhibitions Abroad

Dec 2002 “Gran Coleccionable”Galería Catarsis, Madrid, Spain
Dec 2002 XI Salón Internacional de Artes Plásticas, Barcelona, Spain
Mar 2003 Collectiva d'Artistes Galeria Artitude, Barcelona, Spain
May 2003 Diversité de L'art Contemporain, Galerie Artitude, Paris. France
Aug 2003 Galería Lebasi de Palma de Mallorca (Islas Baleares), Spain
Sept 2003 Trofeo Remo-Brindisi, Bologna, Italia
Oct 2003 Ier Salon International de Artes Plasticas y Visuales, Petit Format, Barcelona, Spain
Dec 2003 XIII Salón Internacional de Artes Plásticas, Barcelona, Spain
Dec 2003 Bark Modern Art, Hong Kong
Jan 2004 Galerie Art et Couleurs, Saint Chamond, France
Jan 2004 “Gran Coleccionable” Galería Catarsis, Madrid,Spain
April 2004 VIII Edición de la Feria de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Feria ARCALE, Salamanca, Spain
Jan 2005 “Gran Coleccionable” Galería Catarsis, Madrid,Spain
Jan 2006 “Gran Coleccionable” Galería Catarsis, Madrid,Spain
Mar 2006 “Grand Prix de New York", New York,USA

Awards

2002 2nd Prize Qantas Link Open, Artswest Annual Exhibition Longreach
2002 Mencio d'Honor a l'Abstracció, XI Salón Internacional de Artes Plásticas, Barcelona, Spain
2003 2nd Prize a l'Abstracció, XIII Saló Internacional d'Arts Plástiques, Barcelona, Spain
2004 Two works - Murmurs & Strength Of Love -selected for the 2004 Cromwell Art Prize.
2005 Selected 2005 Flying Arts Regional Art Awards
2005 Selected 2005 Art With Heart Awards
2006 Selected Grand Prix New York 2006

Collections

Australian Trade Commission Madrid (Austrade), Brisbane Council (Velocity), KPMG, Minter Ellison Lawyers, MacDonnells Solicitors, Anembo Consultants, private collections in Australia, Hong Kong, France, Spain and Switzerland.

Commissions

Anembo (“Genesis 1 to 4” and “Anembo”), Mrs Teresa Keleher (Sunshine Days #2)