Born in France, Christine Toh has been living and working in Liverpool since 1992. She has always been interested in the creative process, but it is only when she discovered print making shortly after moving to the UK that she slowly moved on to become a practising multidisciplinary and textile artist. Christine has a BA (First Class Hons) in Fashion and Textile Design from John Moores University, 2008. She works from her studio space at Arena Studios in Liverpool.
Christine is a multi disciplinary artist using paper and fabric.She works with a range of materials and processes with a playful and instinctive approach: printing, painting, drawing, cutting, collage. Collecting imagery and through the use of colours, found objects and also text the themes of transformation, repair, fragmentation, time and memory are explored.Christine usually works in immersing herself in a playful and experimental creative process intuitively building a tension between what is controlled and what is accidental.
The process of layering allows the creation of new interactions, connections and allows to push boundaries.She has been working at home during the lockdown period and started working on a new body of work.The work produced was made by cutting and weaving old pieces of work.It built up as a slow, repetitive and obsessive ritual to stop time, escape and question the world we are living in.Since then Christine has been developing this technique.The balance between the repetitive construction, the action of weaving and the decision making process of colours and marks is a permanent challenge. Old work is transformed, reinvented, reconstructed into new artworks generating new ideas and hope for the future.