Christie Brown's practice is informed by the significance of continuity and the relevance of archaic artefacts to a contemporary artist, as well as an interest in the mythology and symbolism associated with clay and its relationship with other materials such as wax, bronze and plaster. Her mostly figurative work is influenced by our relationship with objects, especially those found in museum collections. Archaeology presents a fragmented narrative of past lives and holds parallels with psychoanalysis where layers are carefully stripped away to reveal hidden knowledge. Clay is a transformative material which relates to ideas about metamorphoses and Brown's artefacts can be seen as embodiments of transformation and transition through contemporary rites of passage. The broadening agendas and interdisciplinary dialogues within contemporary ceramics are the main focus of the Ceramics Research Group at the University of Westminster where Christie Brown is Professor of Ceramics. The re-examination of the discipline through history and new approaches to presentation such as installation and intervention are keys areas of research interest.
 
  1966-69 Manchester University, General Arts, BA degree.
1980-82 Harrow School of Art, Higher Diploma in Studio Pottery.
 
  2006 Artist in Residence, Hunter College, New York.
2003-5 Artist in Residence, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London.              
2001- present Professor of Ceramics, University of Westminster, London.
1993 - 2001 Lecturer in Ceramics, University of Westminster, London.
 
  2006 Foundation Deposits. Thomas Hunter Gallery, Hunter College, New York (solo)
2006 Collective Traces: A Response to the Petrie Museum, Institute Of Archaeology, London. (solo with catalogue)
2004 Christie Brown, Heidi Morstang , London Gallery West, Harrow.
2003 Between the Dog and the Wolf. Work in progress, Kingsgate Gallery, London (solo)
2001 Recent Sculpture. Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo)
2000 Fragments of Narrative. Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, commissioned by the Womens Playhouse Trust, London. (solo) (Catalogue)
1997 Ceramics. The Crafts Council Shop at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. (solo)
1996 The Cast of Characters. Kingsgate Gallery, London (solo).
1995 Sculpture. Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh. (solo). (Catalogue: The Cast of Characters)
1991 New Work. Oxford Gallery, Oxford (with Barbara Hepworth).
1991 Keramik. Gallery L, Hamburg, Germany. (British Council assisted).
1990 Sculpture. Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh (solo).
1988 New Sculpture. Michaelson and Orient, London (with Imogen Margrie).
1986 Ceramic Sculpture. Oxford Gallery, Oxford (with Tim Mara).
 
  2009 In the Mix, Pangolin London, King's Place, London
2009 London Art Fair with Adrian Sassoon, London.
2008 Myths and Legends, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
2008 Sterling Stuff 2, Pangolin London, King's Place, London
2008 Collect at the V&A, Contemporary Applied Arts, London
2007 After Life: Collective Traces, Egyptian Galleries, Manchester Museum.
2007 SOFA NY with Loveed Fine Arts, New York
2007 Women Touch: Ceramics, Loveed Fine Arts at A.I.R Gallery, New York.
2006 Collect, Victoria & Albert Museum, London with Cosa Gallery.
2005 Body Language, Gallery Pangolin, Stroud, (catalogue)
2005 The Fragmented Figure, University of Wales Institute Cardiff.
2005 Celebrating 30 Years, Crafts Council Shop at the V&A, London.
2004 Human Figure, Rufford Craft Centre, Nottingham.
2003 Sterling Stuff. Museum Sigismond Olafsson, Reykjavik, Iceland and Friends Room, Royal Academy. London.
2003 Fresh Air. Quenington Sculpture Trust, Cirencester.
2002 Sterling Stuff. Gallery Pangolin, Stroud. (Catalogue)
2002 About Face. Croydon Clocktower Museum, Croydon.
2002 Sculpture & Drawings. Cinecontact -The Gallery, London.
2002 SOFA Chicago with Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2001 Ikons of Identity. Craftspace Touring, Birmingham (Touring) (Catalogue)
2001 Concerning the Human Figure. WDO Gallery, Charlotte USA
2001 Table. Southville Centre, Bristol
2001 Fresh Air. Quenington Sculpture Trust, Cirencester.
2001 Figurative Ceramics. Crafts Council Shop at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
1999 The International 20th Century Arts Fair with Adrian Sassoon, New York, (annually represented to 2003) (catalogue)
1998 The Nude In Clay 2. Group show at Perimeter Gallery, Chicago and the Charles A. Wustum
Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, USA ( Catalogue.)
1997 Art 97 The London Contemporary Art Fair with Adrian Sassoon. Business Design Centre, London. (Annually represented to 2003)
1997 Bodies In Clay. Firstsite at the Minories, Colchester.
1997 Jerwood Prize Exhibition at the DAI, Marianne Heller, Heidelberg, Germany.
1997Jerwood Prize Exhibition, Galerie fur angewandte Kunst, Munich, Germany.
1996 The Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts 1996; Ceramics, Crafts Council, London. (Shortlist exhibition) (Catalogue)
1996 SOFA Miami and Chicago, U.S.A with Adrian Sassoon,
1994 The International Ceramics Fair with Adrian Sassoon, London (annually represented to 2003).
1992 Aspects of Sculpture, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany.
1991 Aspects of Sculpture, Galerie für englische Keramik, Sandhausen, Germany.
1990 5th International Contemporary Art Fair, London with Scottish Gallery.
1989 The Harrow Connection - Studio Pottery 1963-1988. Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland and the Crafts Council, London. (Catalogue)
1989 Clay Bodies. Contemporary Applied Arts, London.
1988 Kingsgate Workshops 10th Anniversary Exhibition. Kingsgate Gallery and Sue Williams Gallery, London. (Joint show prize winner selected by Marina Vaisey).
1987 Figurative. British Crafts Centre, London. (open submission)
1984 New Ceramics (with Pip Cronin and Steve Buck), Kingsgate Gallery, London
 
  2005 Arts and Humanities Research Council, Small Grant in the Visual and Performing Arts, for
Collective Traces: A Response to the Petrie Museum.
2001 British Council assistance for solo show in Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, USA.
2000 London Arts Board Award to Individual Artists for solo show at Wapping.
1996 Shortlisted for the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts: Ceramics.
1991 British Council assistance for solo Exhibition at Galerie L in Hamburg, Germany.
1988 Accepted on Crafts Council Selected Index of Makers.
1983 Received Setting-Up Grant from the Crafts Council.
 
  Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Longhouse Foundation, East Hampton, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts Racine, USA
Musee National De Ceramique, Sèvres, France.
The Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada.
The Royal Musem of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury.
York City Art Gallery, Yorks.
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA
 
  Alun Graves. Review of Christie Brown, London Gallery West. Ceramic Review, March/April 2005.
Babette Martini. Review of Between the Dog and the Wolf, Interpreting Ceramics,
No 5. 2004.
Edmund de Waal, Return to your Dust; Figuration as Transgression, from Fragments of Narrative catalogue. 2000. Reprinted in Ceramics Art & Perception, January 2002.
Emma Maiden, Review of Fragments of Narrative, Crafts Magazine, Sept-Oct 2000.
Katy Bevan, Under Control, Ceramic Review. No 180. 1999.
Rosemary Hill, Review of Kingsgate Gallery show, American Ceramics.Vol 12, No 3. 1997
Ruth Pavey, Character Studies, Crafts Sept-Oct. 1996.
Janice West, The Cast of Characters, Catalogue for Scottish Gallery show. 1995.
Jane Norrie, Review of Scottish Gallery show, Arts Review, May 1991.
 
  Embodying Transformation, paper given at Fragmented Figure conference at UWIC and Storytelling and Poetry seminar at the International Ceramics Centre, Guldagergaard, Denmark, published in Interpreting Ceramics, No 8, 2006.
Collective Traces, paper for exhibition seminar at Institute of Archaeology, London published in Ceramics Technical (Aus) Issue 23.
Clay Bodies. Paper delivered at the Body Politic Conference, Northumbria University. 1999. Published by the Crafts Council, 2000.
Assembling a Cast of Characters, Ceramics, Art & Perception. Winter 1996.
   
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