Christie Lange

Christie Lange

Ceramic and Mixed Media Artist Larapuna/the Bay of Fires Lutruwita/Tasmania.

I am a ceramic and mixed-media artist living and working in Binalong Bay on Larapuna / the Bay of Fires, Lutruwita / Tasmania. Surrounded by bushland and sea, my practice is shaped by sustained observation of the living systems that quietly sustain this place — lichens binding to rock, mycelium threading through soil, mosses holding moisture in the forest understory, gastropods tracing slow pathways across the ground, and the intricate cooperation of soil communities beneath our feet. The coastline extends this inquiry, informing my attentiveness to shifting Tasmanian shorelines.

My work investigates restoration and renewal within contemporary ecological life. I focus on how small, often overlooked organisms hold entire systems together — how they adapt, collaborate, decompose and regenerate. Through porcelain, stoneware, glaze, thread and mixed media, I hand-build hybrid sculptural forms that echo fungi, mosses, gastropods and soil ecologies. These works are not illustrations of nature but material propositions — meditations on interdependence, fragility and resilience.

Hand-building is central to my process. I construct forms slowly through accumulation — layering, piercing, staining and glazing. The rhythm of making parallels the incremental work of ecosystems themselves: small acts of growth, erosion and repair. Attention is foundational in my practice. Restoration, for me, begins there.

Alongside field observation, I draw on ongoing research into terrestrial ecology, soil systems and regenerative processes. Recent works have been shaped by memory and material response to the Enchanted Walk at Cradle Mountain — sustained reflections on the layered textures of lichens, mosses and forest-floor ecologies encountered there. My investigations move between concern and hope, acknowledging environmental fracture while imagining adaptive futures. Increasingly, my research is turning toward soil animal communities and the intricate relationships beneath our feet — an unfolding inquiry that will inform forthcoming bodies of work, alongside continued attentiveness to Tasmanian shorelines.

I hold a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts (Visual Arts) with First Class Honours from the University of Tasmania. My work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across Tasmania and I have been recognised as a finalist in the Women’s Art Prize Tasmania, the Bay of Fires Art Prize and the Southern Ocean Art Prize. In 2019 I was awarded the Art Farm Birch’s Bay Small Sculpture Acquisitive Prize, followed by the Boxed-In Sculpture Prize People’s Choice Award in 2021.

Alongside my studio practice, I write essays exploring restoration and renewal in contemporary art, extending the conceptual ground of my sculptural work into language.

Works are available via the Cradle Mountain WIlderness Gallery, my website or by private studio appointment. Occasional studio visits and small, considered clay experiences are offered for those seeking deeper material engagement.

When I am not in the studio, I am often swimming in the ocean or lagoon, tending herbs, cooking for friends, or walking slowly through the northeast highlands and along the shoreline, noticing what is shifting and what is holding. This place continues to shape how I see.

Christie Lange
Binalong Bay, Tasmania

I’m a member of Art Trails Tasmania and you can find out more here.