Christine Webster (b.1958) is a New Zealand–born artist based in Cambridge, UK. Her photography and video work explore gender and identity, demonstrating ‘the complexity of gender, power relations and psychological states of being’.¹ 

Active in New Zealand throughout the 1980s, Webster was included in ‘Neue Mythen’ at Museum Ludwig, Cologne in 1989. Webster was awarded a Goethe Institute Cultural Scholarship in 1987 and the prestigious Frances Hodgkins Fellowship, based at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1991. Her ‘Black Carnival’ series (1993–97) was exhibited in 1996 at Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, and in 1997 at Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France and at MACBA, Barcelona, Spain. 

Webster completed her MFA at the University of Glasgow in 2004. Living in the UK since 1997, Webster’s work has been exhibited widely in New Zealand and overseas, including in Australia, the Netherlands, Hong Kong and Germany. Her work is held in the collections of Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; LA County Museum, USA; The International Museum of Photography, Rochester, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; MCA, Sydney, Australia; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; and Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand.² In 2009–10, Webster undertook residencies in Glasgow, Chongqing and San Francisco for the project Transitions, while on Sabbatical from her role as Senior Lecturer at the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University.

Endnotes

1. Anne Kirker, Provocations: The Work of Christine Webster [exhibition catalogue], Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, 2010, p.81.
2. Trish Clark Gallery, ‘Christine Webster’, <https://trishclark.co.nz/artists/webster-christine/>, accessed January 2025.