Christine Dixie

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]