Gary Christian
b. 1954
Lives and works in NSW, Australia

Gary Christian, a distinguished sculptor and painter with twenty years experience, has had 17 solo exhibitions—in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Hobart. Sculptural works of note include: ’Figures in the Landscape’’ (2012), for Mount Annan Botanic Gardens; ‘The Atomic Family’ (2012), for The University of Western Sydney; ‘Furnace’ (2012), for the Corrimal Cokeworks Hundred Year Centenary; and a 50 meter high sculptural façade designed in collaboration with architects, Fitzpatrick and Partners, for 33 Bligh Street, Sydney (2012). In 2009 The Travellers, a five-piece laser cut sculpture, won the Santos Sculpture Award. That same year Christian installed a wall sculpture, commissioned by Multiplex, at No 1 Shelley Street, Darling Harbour. Christian’s work has been hung in prestigious awards and exhibitions, such as the Archibald Prize, and he has undertaken numerous sculpture commissions.

Each body of work reveals Christian’s continuing interest in the transformative power of art and it’s connection to time. His art raises questions about our past, present and future, about our journey through life, and our connection to and disconnection from the natural world.

Gary Christian is of a generation of diverse Australian sculptors who emerged in the mid 1980’s. All shared a fascination with creating work that pushed the boundaries of classical art and the formal qualities of sculpture. Christian gets his impulses from the natural world and the patterns, rhythm and tone of the natural world shape the images he creates. His recent work— laser cut stainless still or aluminum, with mirrored or patina surfaces—evokes the imaginary as a site of exchange between the natural world, the cultural environment and the intellect. While earlier work brought together finely perforated steel and carved wood, to create pictorial objects, that both described the landscape, and felt like part of it.

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