{"id":577,"date":"2026-07-29T12:49:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studio.christinadarras.com\/?page_id=577"},"modified":"2026-07-31T04:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T04:31:05","slug":"artwork-biography-cv","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/studio.christinadarras.com\/?page_id=577","title":{"rendered":"Artwork Biography &#038; CV"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-c54464b3 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:72px;padding-bottom:96px\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#9a4937;font-size:13px;letter-spacing:0.14em;text-transform:uppercase\">Biography &amp; curriculum vitae<\/p>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"font-size:clamp(44px,7vw,78px);font-weight:400\">Artwork<\/h1>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.588), 20px);line-height:1.7\">Christina Darras is an interdisciplinary artist of Greek origin. Through her tactile and meditative practice, she explores issues of identity and belonging. Her practice spans from painting and drawing to embroidery and printmaking. She expands her practice to installations and curatorial projects. Darras works and lives in Naarm.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born 1968, Athens, Greece.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2020-2021 Master of Contemporary Art, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne University.<\/li><li>1990-1991 Postgraduate Diploma, Printmaking, Central St. Martins College of Art &amp; Design, London, UK.<\/li><li>1986-1990 Bachelor of Arts, Painting + Drawing, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solo Exhibitions<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2026 Jacky Winter Gallery, Life as a circus<\/li><li>2025 Genesis Gallery Athens Greece, Ariadne + Minotaur<\/li><li>2024 Glimpse Art Space, Marie Antoinette<\/li><li>2024 Frankston Arts Grant, Impossible bodies<\/li><li>2022 Kingston Arts, My name is Arachni. Satellite event for Craft Contemporary 22<\/li><li>2022 Gallery Genesis, Ta Ble, Athens, Greece<\/li><li>2022 George Paton Gallery, A Geography of moments, Melbourne.<\/li><li>2022 Kingston arts G3, Oneself too many, Melbourne<\/li><li>2019 Craft Victoria, Bottle People, Melbourne<\/li><li>2019 Gallery Genesis, One thing a day, Athens, Greece<\/li><li>2019 Craft Victoria, Vitrine Gallery, I do not belong, Melbourne.<\/li><li>2018 Fougaro, Dutch blue, Nafplio, Greece<\/li><li>2018 Kingston Arts G3 Artspace, Dutch blue, Melbourne.<\/li><li>2018 Boom Gallery, Dutch Blue, Geelong.<\/li><li>2017 Brunswick Street Gallery, All eyes on you, Melbourne.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Group Exhibitions<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2025 Off the Kerb Gallery, How Cute is Cute?<\/li><li>2025 Linden project, Lab..uh\u2026rinths<\/li><li>2025 Jacky Winter Gallery, Assembly<\/li><li>2024 The Dax Centre, Band together<\/li><li>2023 George Paton gallery, Le Lendemain<\/li><li>2023 The Lester Prize Finalist<\/li><li>2023 Wyndham Art Prize Finalist<\/li><li>2023 Craft Contemporary 2023 satellite events Soft Speech, at McClelland Sculpture Park, in collaboration with Narelle White<\/li><li>2023 Craft Contemporary 2023 satellite events The Hand becomes the Needle at Off the Kerb Gallery, collaboration with Rebecca Diele<\/li><li>2023 Artists books George Paton Gallery<\/li><li>2023 Art Athina, Gallery Genesis, Athens, Greece.<\/li><li>2022 Finalists Incinerator Art Award 2022, Art for Social Change<\/li><li>2022 Wangaratta Regional Art Gallery, Small soft Sculpture<\/li><li>2022 Kinston Arts, Day by day, by day<\/li><li>2022 George Paton Gallery, When do you think of Feminism<\/li><li>2021 VCA Grad Show, Your Value Is<\/li><li>2021 VCA ArtSpace, From where I stand#3<\/li><li>2020 online Assembly point, Zero o&#8217;clock<\/li><li>2020 Wangaratta Art Gallery, The Fun Room<\/li><li>2019 Kingston Arts G1, G2, fertile ground<\/li><li>2018 Boom Gallery, Geelong, Victoria Australia<\/li><li>2018 Gallery Genesis, Athens, Greece<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Grants and Residencies, Internships<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2025 VCA Grant for creative development<\/li><li>2024 Curatorial Internship at The Dax Centre<\/li><li>2024 Artist as curator Wunder Gym &amp; Wyndham City Council Arts<\/li><li>2024 Impossible bodies, Frankston Arts Grant<\/li><li>2023 Le Lendemain George Paton Gallery (and curatorial work)<\/li><li>2020 Kingston Arts Arts grant<\/li><li>2019 Craft Victoria artist in residence during Craft Contemporary 19<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curatorial practice<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2025 Linden project, Lab..uh\u2026rinths<\/li><li>2025 Off the Kerb Gallery, How cute is cute<\/li><li>2024 The Dax Centre, Band together<\/li><li>2024 Curatorial Internship at The Dax Centre<\/li><li>2023 George Paton gallery, Le Lendemain<\/li><li>2023 Craft Contemporary 2023 satellite events Soft Speech, at McClelland Sculpture Park, in collaboration with Narelle White<\/li><li>2023 Craft Contemporary 2023 satellite events The Hand becomes the Needle at Off the Kerb Gallery, collaboration with Rebecca Diele<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Workshops<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2025 Rowden White Library Collage workshop<\/li><li>2025 Melbourne Uni, concertina books workshop<\/li><li>2025 Beaumaris art group, Printmaking and watercolours workshop<\/li><li>2024 Melbourne Art Book Fair &amp; George Paton Gallery, making Concertina books.<\/li><li>2023 Collage, Baileys Art Center<\/li><li>2023 Bring your own craft, George Paton Gallery<\/li><li>2023 Sustainable Wax Wraps George Paton Gallery<\/li><li>2023 The Green Space Mentone, Meditation and Watercolours<\/li><li>2023 Kingston Arts, Yoga and Art.<\/li><li>2023 Collage, Mystic River Gallery.<\/li><li>2022 Interfaith, Kingston Council, Spring Festival<\/li><li>2022 The creative power of Failure, artist&#8217;s talk and workshop at Kingston Arts<\/li><li>2022 Masque making at Maroondah City Council<\/li><li>2021 Crafts Victoria: virtual studios, online masque-making demo.<\/li><li>2021 Kingston Arts: As a Grant recipient, two reduction linocut workshops. The outcome of the workshops was part of the exhibition \u201cOneself, too many\u201d at G3 Artspace.<\/li><li>2020 Kingston Arts Online Workshops, Chroma crochet: making jewellery with crochet and colourful threads, and Embroidery and watercolour.<\/li><li>2019 Craft Victoria \u201cBottle people\u201d, Papier macher two days\u2019 workshop<\/li><li>2018 \u201cGrandmothers\u201d Hellenic Museum, Melbourne<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography &amp; curriculum vitae Artwork Christina Darras is an interdisciplinary artist of Greek origin. Through her tactile and meditative practice, she explores issues of identity and belonging. Her practice spans from painting and drawing to embroidery and printmaking. She expands her practice to installations and curatorial projects. Darras works and lives in Naarm. 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