Exploring the interplay between visual perception and the sensory influence of Luna Park’s proximity and sounds, the work becomes site-responsive. Frames of kaleidoscopic funhouse mirrors create spatial illusions, offering viewers perceptual insights into the mirrored images and exploring where body and architecture, conscious and unconscious, begin and end.
Christabel spent her early 20’s studying the Arts in New York City An independent studio program at the Whitney Museum of American art led her into creating sculpture.
At age 30 she returned to Australia, settling in Somers on the Mornington peninsula. The significant change of environment impacted Christabel’s art practice. Scale and Materiality shifted, and a fusion between man-made and the natural form emerged. She took large cypress trunks in primal fashion, stripping them back to heart wood and, with minimal intervention incised apertures and slits.