Christina McPhee

the long version

Christina McPhee?s ?commonplace book? draws from a palimpsest of handwritten notes, lists, quotations, bibliographic fragments, and sketches, from an artist whose voracious reading practice is a direct feed into her life and art ? all set to a visual and textual design-as-score, as prominent writers on painting, media arts, performance, video installation and poetics engage with her ?open-work? practice. Christina McPhee?s images move from within a matrix of abstraction, shadowing figures and contingent effects. The tactics of living are in subterfuge, like the dazzle ships of camouflage in war. This ?commonplace book? develops a view of recent work in collaged paintings, drawings, photomontage and video installation, around themes of environmental transformation and ?post-natural? community.