Julia Christey’s enduring interest lies in the interface of human agency and our environment in its beautiful, dramatic and damaged form.

Julia explores disruptions to our ecological network by drawing on her experience, memory and emotional response to this complex landscape. Conceptually and technically, Julia uses erasure to explore the sense of loss and destabilisation of our ecology. She considers habitat destruction and catalogues the passage of time to create an uncomfortable tension representing an uncertain future.

Once were Trees celebrates our remaining primordial native bush as well as setting out a challenge as to how we can integrate better into the complex system that is our ecology.

Julia is a contemporary Waikato artist and holds a M.A.(Dist) in Visual Art. A practicing artist for 20 years, Julia has been a finalist in numerous national art awards and her work is held in private and public collections across New Zealand, Europe and the US.

Opening Preview, 4.30-7pm, Friday 23 August