Christine
Dixie is an established South African artist, who has regularly exhibited in that
country, the US and Europe. She is primarily a printmaker, but
her art also finds expression through films or elaborate installations.
Her work challenges the ways gender
roles have been historically conditioned by society, myths, and image-making. The
manifestation of the colonial history that haunts the town of Makhanda, (the Eastern
Cape city where she lives) has compelled her preoccupation with Europe’s legacy
in Africa. Her practice and aesthetic rely on archival imagery and in-depth
research.
In 2007 her work was the focus of
a retrospective exhibition, Corporeal Prospects, that was held at The
Standard Bank Gallery in Johannesburg. The Smithsonian National Museum of
African Art in Washington DC in the US plan to present the installation The
Binding. The Wits Art Museum will exhibit the installation To Be King.