ABOUT
Christine Thomas is a fine artist with a multi-disciplinary practice and often works with textiles. Her areas of interest include locational identity and the domestic, often from a feminist perspective and explore the use of nature and the domestic. She uses practice led research methodology to inform of her experimental processes with materials from a feminist perspective. Her work often incorporates rurality and the domestic, exploring concepts of environment and place.
She has experience of managing community arts projects and works as a freelance community artist alongside her own fine art practice. Christine is also a member of the Spaces Places Arts Research Group at the University of Derby.
Christine has worked for a wide range of organisations as a facilitator, mentor and explores how creativity can be used to improve Self-Esteem, Confidence and Well-being in vulnerable people with enduring conditions.
Recent projects:-
Midland Maker Challenge, Museum of Making.
Ty Pawb, Wrexham – Criw Celf Textiles Lead Artist.
PGR Support & Development Workshops, University of Derby.
Beaudesert Care Farm – Beaudesert Eco Arts Trail, Arts Project Lead.
Network Rail & Transition Belper – Award Winning Community Arts Project, Lead Artist & Project Manager.
Selected Exhibitions
Plas Bodfa, Bodfa Continuum, Llangoed, Anglesey
Gaslight Art, Online Exhibition
MA Fine Art Exhibition, University of Derby
Wirksworth Arts Festival
M.A.M (Mother Artist Mother) Banks’s Mill, Derby
Desperate Artwives, Vibe Gallery, London
Desperate Artwives, 5h Edition, Lower Marsh, London.
Aesthetics of Africa, Pickfords House, Derby Museum and Art Gallery
Artemisia Gentileschi Symposium, Leicester
Solo Exhibition – The Crompton Art Pub, Derby
Residency
Artist’s Residency, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth.
Artist in Residence, Arboretum Park, Derby
Conferences
‘Love you to Death’ by Vanessa Engle, Film Screening & Discussion Panel, Organised by Dr Teresa Forde & Dr Maria Photiou, University of Derby & Derby Quad
Collage Workshop with Dr Teresa Forde – Wonder Woman for President 2022, 50 Years of Kick Ass Feminism
Domestic Abuse, Rurality and Liminal Spaces (Presenter), PGR Arts & Humanities Conference, University of Derby
Awards
a-n Time Space Money Bursary, 2020
First Exhibition Platform awarded from the University of Derby & The Furthest from the Sea Gallery, Derby in 2020
a-n Go and See Bursary in collaboration with Andrew Martyn Sugars (Exploring art in rural locations)
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