Christina Mackie
Saatchi Gallery

Christina Mackie
Falling Boundary

Christina Mackie
Christina Mackie’s sculptural installations weave an intricate web of associations between their diverse physical components, which comprise natural, man-made and crafted elements…

Christina Mackie
The first room of Christina Mackie’s solo show ‘This That and the Other’ at Herald St comprised three sculptural works – a triangular arrangement in which vertices gave rise to strange growths and dimensionality was always on the slide. Figure 1 (2007) was an almost life-size hippopotamus formed from grey resin, a substance that appeared to pool on its back and drip from it haunches onto the gallery floor, as though this meaty, three-dimensional creature were in the process of devolving into a liquid plane. (It’s worth remembering that this semi-aquatic mammal’s name means ‘river horse’ in Latin.)…