Christine Mackey

Artist statement

In recent years, my practice has focused on examining the role of ecological systems (social, biological, and physical) and its representation in the present day through the production of drawings, sculptural installations, text, sound and video, photographic and archival documentation, publications, and also public and site-specific artwork's. My work acts as a kind of synapse between the different types of systems creating a larger, more connected 'grid' functioning as an integrated whole. A key factor of her working process is an interest in institutionalised knowledge systems and how these data systems can be challenged in new and unexpected ways. All of my projects to date share a commonality i.e., drawing as an extended practice in social and environmental contexts. This systemic approach operates as a transitive response to different kinds of journeys afforded between drawing and writing, thinking, walking, and talking in generating an understanding of the complexity of place and people – a slow process that defocuses the mind in order to enter new territories.