Caroline Christie-Coxon is an Australian interdisciplinary artist born in South Africa and based in Western Australia. Since migrating to Australia in 1996, her practice has evolved through an ongoing exploration of relationship, belonging, ecology, and humanity’s place within the living world.
Working across photography, painting, performance, land art, public art, installation, and site-responsive interventions, Christie-Coxon develops projects that engage directly with landscape, weather, water, light, geology, and the body. Her works often emerge through temporary encounters with site, creating images and actions that reflect on interconnectedness, consequence, reciprocity, and return.
Over three decades, she has developed the conceptual frameworks of Circle Culture and The Fluid Loop. While initially emerging through process-based painting, these ideas have expanded into a broader investigation of systems, from individual to global interdependence.
Having lived between the histories of South Africa and Australia, Christie-Coxon’s practice is informed by experiences of migration and cultural transition. Questions of belonging, displacement, memory, and place remain an enduring undercurrent throughout the work. Positioned between continents, her projects seek to create space to acknowledge complexity while exploring forms of connection that extend beyond borders, identities, and divisions.
Recent years have seen increasing international recognition of her work. In 2025, SKIRA Milan published Circle Culture, a 256-page monograph. European exhibitions and projects include Arte e Natura Vincono il Tempo at Villa Arconati, Milan; Tender Is The Night in Nice; Of Being at Galleria Sonne, Switzerland; Carbon Circle in the Engadin in Switzerland; and participation in The I.C.E. St Moritz – Art in Motion. By invitation from curators Diana Segantini and Thomas Zitzwitz, she has exhibited alongside internationally recognised artists including Julian Charrière, Not Vital, Rolf Sachs, Paul McCarthy, Olaf Breuning, Kimsooja, Alicja Kwade, Barbara Chase-Riboud, John Chamberlain, and Vladimir Miljević.
In addition to her gallery and environmental projects, Christie-Coxon has developed a significant public art practice, completing large-scale permanent commissions integrated into civic and architectural contexts throughout Australia. Her work is represented in public and private collections and continues to expand across both studio and site-responsive forms.
At its core, Christie-Coxon explores the relationship between humanity and Nature not as separate conditions, but as interconnected expressions. Through photography, performance, land-based acts, and material experimentation, her work invites reflection on the ecological, social, and psychological connections that shape contemporary life.
