Christina lives in a treehouse on the Central Coast.
She works from her purpose-built studio looking into a gully of native Australian bushland. She made the move in 2020, marking a significant shift in her creative practice.
For over two decades Christina’s practice has focused on materials and the marks that are placed upon them, most notably in the medium of clay. Her work explores her connection to place and an endless love of the natural world.
Christina has a BA Visual Arts from Sydney College of the Arts. After completing her degree, she co-founded Chowk Ceramics and for ten years produced unique ceramic tableware collections, sculptural pieces and wall art.
After further postgraduate studies in Design at UTS, Christina turned her mark making to textiles and launched her own textile print studio in 2009. Collaborating with leading fashion designers, her textile designs graced many catwalks and formed an integral part of the designers collections.
Missing the tactile quality of clay, in 2014 Christina came back to clay with her brand Trade the Mark. Working with stoneware and earthenware clays, she predominantly throws vessels on the wheel and works with slabs to create ceramic wall pieces. Christina uses clay as her canvas, creating bold, one-off ceramic works that are intricately etched with sgraffito decoration. Each vividly coloured vessel celebrates her devotion to a hand-crafted practice.
In 2020 Christina relocated full-time to her treehouse on the Central Coast which also marked a shift in her practice. Working in her purpose-built studio looking into a gully of native Australian bushland, she is focused on creating work that has its foundations in experimentation, self-exploration and the influence of the natural environment that she is now immersed in. This shift coincides with a return to exhibiting, producing hand-built ceramic works alongside distorting and manipulating the thrown form. This later body of work signals a more organic approach to her practice, both in conception and craftsmanship.