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Christine Dixie (born 1966) is a South African printmaker.

Born in Cape Town, Dixie received her BFA from the University of the Witwatersrand; following this she attended the University of Cape Town for graduate school, receiving both her post-graduate degree and her MFA from that institution in 1993. She works primarily as an etcher and printmaker, and has produced numerous large-scale installations.[1] Her 2009 installation work The Binding, consisting of six sculptures, six altars, six etchings, and two digital prints,[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] was purchased in 2010 by the National Museum of African Art.[1][9] The museum also owns copies of her 2000 mezzotint Hide: to withhold or withdraw from sight,[10] her 2001 work Unravel,[11] and her 2007 work Even in the Long Descent I-V[12] Her work may also be found in the collections of the New York Public Library, the Johannesburg Art Museum, and the Isiko National Art Museum.[13] Dixie has taught at Rhodes University in Grahamstown during her career.[1][14] In 2012, she was one of 15 artists awarded an Artist Research Fellowship by the Smithsonian Institution.[15] Her project, entitled The Heroic Explorer and Angelic Girl, focused on 19th-century gender stereotypes and used materials at the National Portrait Gallery and Museum of American History.

Bevan de Wet, a Johannesburg-based print-maker, is one of her former students.[16]

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  8. ^ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  9. ^ "Christine Dixie". Christine Dixie. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
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  11. ^ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  12. ^ "Collections - National Museum of African Art". africa.si.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  13. ^ "Christine Dixie « Black Portraiture[s] Conferences". www.blackportraitures.info. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  14. ^ "Christine Dixie - Art Africa". 1 December 2007. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
  15. ^ "Smithsonian Awards 15 Artist Research Fellowships". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  16. ^ Corrigall, Mary (26 July 2017). "ART EXHIBITION - Print maker on new voyage into unknown waters". Business Day.


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