Artist & exhibition info - Christine Szabados

Bliss: a collection of montages
Photospace Gallery, 27th June - 19th July 2014

The work began as a series based on hand gestures that could be read by all cultures. This series of five works (#6 to #10 in the exhibition) incorporates images hand cut and montaged from old books and uses imagery mainly from my interests in art, photography, cinema, fashion and Modernist architecture.

In the second series (#1 to #5 in the exhibition) I found two books on birds and butterflies printed in the late 1950’s. They reminded me of my childhood in suburbia where everyone seemed to have budgies and some neighbours had wooden butterflies stuck to their houses. These two motifs are incorporated into architectural interior and exterior backgrounds with other random elements to make resolved compositions.

Series three ( #11 - #13 in the exhibition) uses images from an old 1930s book on London combined with more contemporary photographs of London. The paintings used are by British artists and the text is from an old book on aesthetics in art.

Christine Szabados - artist bio

• Certificate in Textile/ Fashion Design, 1977-78
• 10 years working in theatre on costume design and construction
• Bachelor of Design (Photography), Wellington Polytechnic/ Victoria University, graduated 1995
• Master of Fine Arts, Elam University of Auckland, graduated 1998
• Taught photography at a PTE, Auckland, before training to be a secondary school teacher
• Post-Graduate Teaching Diploma, AUT, graduated 2006
• Currently: teaching photography /art at Tawa College since 2008.
  

Christine has exhibited at Photospace Gallery since 2002.

Christine Szabados, 1st series, 'Bliss'

Christine Szabados, 2nd series, 'Bliss'

Christine Szabados, 3rd series, 'Bliss'