Australian Artist, Designer and Maker Christina Waterson maintains a vibrant creative practice across a variety of scales and mediums. It includes making artworks, public art projects; consulting as an exhibition designer; and developing designs for manufacture. Waterson completed a Bachelor of Design Studies (1996) and a Bachelor of Architecture Honors Class 1 (2005) at The University of Queensland, having also studied Visual Arts at The Queensland University of Technology.
Waterson’s experience includes an impressive array of artistic, design and architectural roles for a number of organizations. Her skills at visualizing and creating meaningful environments were honed while working with Urban Art Projects and Cox Rayner Architects. Waterson has worked extensively as an Exhibition Designer for State Institutions within Australia including The Queensland Art Gallery, The Museum of Brisbane and The State Library of Queensland.
Waterson’s works are imbued with her passion to make meaningful places and objects to be cherished. Recurrent themes include spatial perception, universal patterns, memory, fragility, transience and duality. The scale, thickness and materiality of her work make them difficult to map: it is hard to gauge their depth and position in space, making the thickness of space itself and the limits of our perception palpable.
Recent presentations of Waterson’s work in Australia include exhibitions at the Sydney Powerhouse (NSW), Ipswich Art Gallery, One Part II at SGAR, and The Gallery of Australian Design in the Australian Chair Survey, (ACT). Her unique approach has been recognized through National short listings in the 2008 Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award, the 2010 Space + Edra Design Residency, 2010 Realize Your Dream and the 2011 Australian Annual Design Manual. In 2009, DQmagazine named Waterson in their ‘Top Ten Forces and Faces in Australian and New Zealand Design’. In late 2011 she embarks on a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship to complete research in Japan, China and Turkey.