In Christina Mackie’s hands colour is a dynamic material, she often combines brilliant pigments with found objects and architectural supports. In these Token works a subtle synthesis emerges between the clay and glazes extracted from the earth and the synthetic materials which wrap, tie, embellish and suspend the pieces.  Muted natural tones and saturated hues allude to provisional systems that suggest exchange, value and the fragility of material experimentation in contemporary sculptural practice. 

Christina Mackie b. 1956, Oxford, UK, lives and works in London, UK.