Christina Mackie; Contemporary Art Society 'Commission to Collect'

Commissioned by Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery as a result of winning the Contemporary Art Society's Commission to Collect Award in 2011. This prestigious prize is awarded to one public gallery per year, to work with an artist on the creation of a new piece of work for the gallery's permanent collection.

Christina Mackie's sculptural installations combine natural, manmade and crafted materials to create a complex web of associations. She accumulates objects, sketches, photographs and materials and lays them out in a carefully choreographed sequence, like a train of thought made visible. Subtle references to landscape are made with painting, in clay and also by including rocks and mineral specimens.