Christine Anne Davis (nee Munsel) Artist

Christine Anne Davis (nee Munsel) was born at Merredin in Western Australia’s wheatbelt on 3rd January 1961. She undertook her first studies in Art in Fukuoka, Japan in 1978 as a Rotary Exchange student. She completed a Certificate of Fine Art in 1980 and a Diploma of Fine Art (Painting) in 1982 from the Claremont School of Art and then finished a Bachelor of Education with a major in Textiles and Art History from Curtin University in 1986. She began teaching art at Narrogin Senior High School in 1986, in 1988 began exhibiting at local and regional shows and exhibitions and from 1992 to 1997 was a committee member and then President of the Narrogin Art Gallery. Her first solo exhibition was held there in May of 1999 and forty-five of the fifty pieces for sale were sold. This was followed by Awards by the Royal Agricultural Society and more solo exhibitions at the Narrogin Town Hall in October of 2006, 2007, 2008 and June 2009 before a four-month trip through Europe where she was artist in residence at La Magistere, France. A return exhibition of European Artwork was held in the Narrogin Town Hall for the Annual Spring Festival in October 2009. Between 2002 and 2008 Christine pioneered a new style in the challenging medium of mirrors and artwork. She has been represented in more than 100 invitation exhibitions, including Newman College ArtCenta, South Perth Hospice, St Hilda’s College, Hale School, Arthritis Centre, Millbrook at Williams, Mitchell House at Wagin, Wagin Woolarama, Beverley Art Exhibition and Williams Gateway Exhibition. Her work is held in many private collections, and an especially fine early mixed media work Delphiniums 1988 is held in the Fairview Art Collection in Subiaco, Perth.