Country: United Kingdom
Christina’s fascination with cultures has been evolving since she was born. She is the product of a Bajan mother and an Englishman for a father, her parents were adamant she should know where she came from, leading to frequent trips to the Caribbean and the South of England to visit family who increasingly embodied the cultural idiosyncrasies that were to inform those worlds to her as a child, and crystallise her fascination with cultures as an adult.
She read Fine Art at the University of Brighton and graduated from Goldsmiths College with an MA in Postcolonial Studies awarded with distinction. Throughout her MA she was interning at Rollo Contemporary Art Gallery and project managing an exhibition for the Brighton and Hove Council which originally started as an arts commission evolving into event management and featuring Frank Bowling RA CBE and herself as exhibiting artists. She has always thought it important as an artist to understand the commercial and management aspects of the world you practice in to enable you to have the skills to create opportunities for yourself to exhibit and promote your work.
Her work as a practicing artist interrogates intercultural relationships and narratives, with a specific research interest in mythology, folklore and religion/spirituality, and the performance of these practices within their respective cultures, i.e. storytelling traditions, and the appropriation of their traits by others they come into contact with, as seen in the phenomenon of ‘carnival’.
Christina produces visual fictions via sculptural installations as seen in her commissioned work for the 6 Degrees International Cultural Exchange programme. She is also developing a graphic novel that uses British and Caribbean mythology and folklore as a device to query spirituality and mental illness.