Tim Christie

Multi-Disciplinary Artist
Te Whanganui-a-tara, Wellington

Tim Christie is a New Zealand–based contemporary artist whose practice explores how perception shapes reality. Working at the intersection of geometric design and figurative form, Christie challenges the idea that reality is fixed, instead inviting viewers to question how their own beliefs, experiences, and vantage points influence what they see.

From different perspectives, his compositions can shift between abstraction, representation, or a compelling synthesis of the two. This optical play is central to Christie’s work, which draws on influences from op art, pop art, geometric abstraction, and new media art. By combining traditional artistic techniques with contemporary fabrication processes, he creates works that blur the boundaries between art, design, and digital experience.

Christie’s multidisciplinary practice spans painting, lightworks, weaving, digital and immersive art, as well as NFT-based projects. Through these varied media, he forges new pathways for digital creativity within the fine art context, encouraging viewers to reconsider how perception can be altered—and how, in turn, reality itself can be reshaped.

He has exhibited widely in New Zealand and internationally, with participation in group shows, solo exhibitions, fairs, residencies, and collaborations across Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Los Angeles. Tim Christie works from his own studio and gallery in central Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.