Christine Healy - Biography

Striking & luxurious, the abstract paintings of Christine Healy possess an immediate visual force. Bold & bright they surge in to view at a glance. And yet within her sweeps & strokes of the brush there also sits a meditative balance created through a subtlety in the range of colours she selects that enhance & accentuate mood & atmosphere.

Healy’s paintings evolve slowly through time in her studio, a place ‘of departure’ as she describes, that allows her to realise her rich & sumptuous optic tomes. They are recordings of Healy’s visual language, deep reflections of inner impulses, they arrive out of unchartered exploration & then discovery towards a resolved composition.

Healy’s works are informed by a myriad of circumstances & situations, a perception of the world arrived at through sustained creative engagement & vividly lived experience. Healy’s marks and her contouring of paint are a grand narrative embodied in form, a response to her immersion in creativity & contemplation that develops into what we see in front of us when exploring these liminal fields.

Healy’s first formal training was when she studied Fine Art at VCA in 1982, she later went on to complete a BFA in 1990 at RMIT, Honours in 1991 & then her Masters in 1995. Since that time of formal training Healy has exhibited in Melbourne, Sydney & Adelaide since 2001, has participated in many of the major Australian & New Zealand Art Fairs since 2002, and has been shortlisted & participated in numerous prizes as recently as 2025 when she received the Highly Commended Award at the Sorrento Art Prize.

Healy’s work is held in The Paul Guest Collection at Bendigo Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, the Gandel Collection, Lendlease, Pricewaterhouse, as well as Artbank & the RMIT Collection in addition to other notable Public & Private Collections.