Christine Read is an artist living & working in the Northern Rivers region of NSW, Australia
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Christine Read Art respectfully acknowledges past and present Bundjalung Elders and pay respects to their descendants as the traditional custodians of this Nyangbal land.
Christine has a studio set in a picturesque rural area close to the village of Lennox Head and in easy reach of Byron Bay, Mullumbimby, Ballina and the Tweed Valley.
Exhibitions at Lennox Arts Collective
My artwork is permanently on display at Lennox Arts Collective 2/72 Ballina St Lennox Head 2478. I share the space with seven other creatives and we take it in turns to be on duty. I am usually on on Wednesdays 10 -3pm and run an art class in the morning.
In April 2024 I am exhibiting with two wonderful ceramicists, who are also members of Lennox Arts Collective, Catherine Lane and Robyn Porritt.
The title is ‘NEXUS’ meaning connections and we will all be showcasing and selling our work on this theme. There will be a ‘soft’ preview on Thursday 4th April 4 – 6pm and the show is 5 – 19th April.
A few of my works in the show are below;
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- The Pass, Byron Bay
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- Harbour Coast
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- Northern Headland
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- Windswept Boulder Beach diptych
Christine says:
Art was at the centre of my life as a child and adolescence and I always had a dream that I could become a full time artist.
The interesting thing is that my life of medicine has really led me on to teaching art and leading art retreats as I use the communication skills I learned at the bedside and the education skills I learned as a medical educator.
I have a sense of leading people on a holistic creative journey that improves their approach to their lives and has therefore extended my role in helping with emotional, physical and mental health in the art studio.’
The home studio (pictured) can be visited by appointment but you can see Christine’s work at the Lennox Arts Collective Gallery 2/72 Ballina St Lennox Head, currently open 10 – 3pm every day.
Prior to full retirement in 2016 Dr Christine Read was for more than twenty years a family doctor in Manly, NSW and later a sexual health physician and Medical Director of Family Planning, NSW.
