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Christine Gallagher Art

Christine Gallagher is a self-taught figurative artist who resurrects the forgotten, the broken, and the discarded. Through paintings, drawings, prints, and clay works, exploring the haunting beauty of abandoned toys—especially dolls—capturing the fragile line between nostalgia and unease. Her work invites viewers to see beyond the cracks and missing pieces, uncovering hidden stories of resilience, longing, and time’s inevitable decay. Deeply influenced by neurodiversity and introspection, Christine utilises her art as a way of processing memory, perception, and emotional depth. Her fascination with old photographs, vintage memorabilia, and family history serves as both inspiration and a lens through which she examines the complexities of human experience. Faded snapshots, forgotten heirlooms, and relics of childhood become symbols of loss, endurance, and the delicate balance between past and present. Inspired by the eerie charm of antique dolls, the aesthetics of old films, and the unsettling whimsy of childhood relics, Christine creates work that resonates with those drawn to the unusual. Employing a variety of techniques to evoke texture, age, and emotion, Christine layers paint to create depth, uses expressive lines to capture wear and distress, and sculpts clay forms that seem both fragile and defiant. Each piece is a meditation on the inevitable patina that comes with age and experience, exploring themes of abandonment, resilience, and the quiet poetry of things left behind. Originally from the North West of England, Christine grew up surrounded by relics of the past—family photographs yellowed with age, heirlooms passed down through generations, and whispered stories of lives once lived. Her work transforms these remnants into deeply personal reflections on perception, identity, and the passage of time. She has had work displayed as a finalist in the prestigious Columbia Threadneedle Prize at the Mall Galleries, London and at the Business Design Centre, London as winner of the 2013 SAA Best Professional in Portrait and Figurative category and, her art has found homes with collectors who see beauty in the broken and meaning in the forgotten. She is currently enjoying a fruitful term as Artist in Residence at the University of Chester and is looking forward to showcasing her work at a group exhibition in the City, this summer. Through her work, Christine invites viewers into a world where broken things still have voices—where each crack, stain, and missing limb tells a tale of survival, beauty, and the strange magic of imperfection.

Christine Gallagher is a self-taught figurative artist who resurrects the forgotten, the broken, and the discarded. Through paintings, drawings, prints, and clay works, exploring the haunting beauty of abandoned toys—especially dolls—capturing the fragile line between nostalgia and unease. Her work invites viewers to see beyond the cracks and missing pieces, uncovering hidden stories of resilience, longing, and time’s inevitable decay.

Deeply influenced by neurodiversity and introspection, Christine utilises her art as a way of processing memory, perception, and emotional depth.
Her fascination with old photographs, vintage memorabilia, and family history serves as both inspiration and a lens through which she examines the complexities of human experience. Faded snapshots, forgotten heirlooms, and relics of childhood become symbols of loss, endurance, and the delicate balance between past and present.

Inspired by the eerie charm of antique dolls, the aesthetics of old films, and the unsettling whimsy of childhood relics, Christine creates work that resonates with those drawn to the unusual.

Employing a variety of techniques to evoke texture, age, and emotion, Christine layers paint to create depth, uses expressive lines to capture wear and distress, and sculpts clay forms that seem both fragile and defiant. Each piece is a meditation on the inevitable patina that comes with age and experience, exploring themes of abandonment, resilience, and the quiet poetry of things left behind.

Originally from the North West of England, Christine grew up surrounded by relics of the past—family photographs yellowed with age, heirlooms passed down through generations, and whispered stories of lives once lived. Her work transforms these remnants into deeply personal reflections on perception, identity, and the passage of time. She has had work displayed as a finalist in the prestigious Columbia Threadneedle Prize at the Mall Galleries, London and at the Business Design Centre, London as winner of the 2013 SAA Best Professional in Portrait and Figurative category and, her art has found homes with collectors who see beauty in the broken and meaning in the forgotten.

She is currently enjoying a fruitful term as Artist in Residence at the University of Chester and is looking forward to showcasing her work at a group exhibition in the City, this summer.

Through her work, Christine invites viewers into a world where broken things still have voices—where each crack, stain, and missing limb tells a tale of survival, beauty, and the strange magic of imperfection.

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