Christina Darras

Master of Contemporary Art

Your Value Is comprises a body of work that explores the relationship and interaction between identity and value. How is identity formed and how does it relate to value? Do we need to have value to have an identity, and vice versa? Through the lens of a handmade and time-consuming practice, including embroidery, crochet, linocut, silk-screen printing and drawing, my work reflects on the ways that identity and value combine and influence each other. My aim is not to provide answers but to set the questions. What happens when identity and value cross borders in a whimsical excursion into a world of colour and texture?

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Christina Darras, Flower Pillow (detail), Cotton and wool threads, calico, sequins, recycled plastic bottles, 2021.

Christina Darras, The Banknote ( process), Recycled chocolate paper packaging, linocut, screen printing, acrylic paint, red cotton thread, 2021. Photography by Rebeca Diele.

Christina Darras, The Banknote (detail), Recycled chocolate paper packaging, linocut, screen printing, acrylic paint, red cotton thread, 2021.

Christina Darras, Now you see me, Now you don't, charcoal, pencil, graphite, ink, acrylic paints on Fabrianno paper, 2021.

Christina Darras, Chocolate Currency, chocolate paper packaging, acrylic paints, 2021.

Christina Darras, Heavy Medals, Bronze, woven wool, cotton threads, 2021.

Christina Darras, Your Value is/ The Banknote, Flower pillow., linocuts and silkscreen on chocolate wrapping, wool and cotton threads, crochet, embroidery on calico, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

Christina Darras, Your Value is/ Now you see me now you don't/ Heavy medals, Charcoal, pencil, ink, gouache, on paper/ bronze woven wool and cotton threads, 2021. Documentation by ALEC.

Christina Darras

Darren Tanny Tan

Katie Stackhouse

Melody Spangaro

Melody Woodnutt

Meredith Marshallsea

Michelle Destefano

Nila Shekarvand

Oliver Hämäläinen

Rachel Jessie-Rae O'Connor

Spencer Harrison

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Owners of the lands upon which our campus is situated, the Boonwurrung and Woiwurrung people of the Kulin Nations, who have created art, made music and told their stories here for thousands of generations. We also acknowledge and extend our respect to the Traditional Owners of all lands on which our work is viewed, shared and enjoyed, and to all Elders, past, present and emerging.

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