My work explores our relationship with nature. They express our emotional response to, as well as ecological and sustainability concerns of the natural world. Artworks express ideas offering viewers a perspective to ponder about our environment and the state of nature. They also seek to encourage viewers establish a stronger connection with nature.
My art practice includes sculpture, public art, site-specific installations and painting. I explore a wide range of materials in sculpture and installations depending on the concept of the work and the context of the place. Sculpture materials have included bronze, aluminum, clay, wood and glass. Elemental materials include stone, gravels, slate, bog root, plant and water.
Fanny Lam Christie is a visual artist and sculptor, born in Hong Kong and live in Perthshire, Scotland. She trained in Edinburgh College of Art in sculpture and received her BA(Hons) in 2004.
Her studio is located in a woodland, where she was inspired to establish an ongoing sculpture event since 2008 to provide a platform for site-specific installation work. Her artworks are based on understanding the context and ecology of the place.
Awards
2015 Creative Scotland Open Project Award to develop a new body of work for exhibition following a year-long art/science residency at Stirling University on the healthcare of farmed fish.
2006 The N. S. MacFarlane Charitable Trust Award in the 180th Annual Open exhibition of Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh for her bronze sculpture Storm.
Public Art
2014 Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth
Christie created ‘Endangered Species’ responding to the significant natural history collection of the Perth Museum, as part of the Creative Scotland Place Partnership programme, in which Christie also mentored two art college students in bronze casting. The work highlights the conservation of freshwater pearl mussels project Pearl-in-Peril in 8 Scottish rivers.
http://fannychristie.com/sculpture/endangered-species
2012 Blairgowrie Community Campus Public Art, Blairgowrie
Christie developed two sculptures with collaboration of local communities, parents, teachers and children of two schools. The artworks focus on the rich natural heritage of the town and the community’s connection with the river Ericht. A participatory work involved over 400 children with the help of parents and teachers.
http://fannychristie.com/sculpture/inspired-zen
http://fannychristie.com/sculpture/river-wildlife
2010 West Lothian Grassroots Public Art Commission, Armadale
Christie worked closely with the local community groups to create a wellness sculpture garden in the community centre providing a tranquil and contemplative space for many user groups and a community known for chaotic lifestyles and dispirited frame of mind. The commission was specifically for a Zen inspired design, which the community believe that would bring them the calmness effect they need. Sculpture interventions connect with the community to focus on their local history and industrial heritage of the town as well as wellbeing.
http://fannychristie.com/sculpture/inspired-zen
Solo Exhibitions
2016 ‘Synergy’, Birnam Arts Centre, Birnam
2015 ‘Aquacultural Encounters’, University of Stirling, Stirling
2006 ‘Nature Unbound’, Eskmills, Musselburgh
Christie exhibites regularly at selected open exhibitions.
