Christina Rose Brown

She/Her

Christina Rose Brown is an Artist, Author and Art Educator based in London. Her works focuses predominantly on textiles, in particular hand embroidery. Her work explores themes of identity, the female body, motherhood and the universal/personal lived experience. She incorporates abstract gestural painting with delicate stitches line drawings and often use fabrics hand-stained with tea. She is interested in using found fabrics that are imbued with their own histories.

She has exhibited regularly in London, and organised workshops and events such as family events for the Tate Modern, The British Museum and Foundling Museum and London Gallery Weekend, and workshops for homeless young people and/or those who have experienced trauma for the charities such as SPEAR and GriefCards.

As an author Christina has published two books for Hoxton Mini Press, she has a particular interest in Arts, Culture and Mental Health and Wellness.

Christina graduated in 2009 from Kingston University with a First Class Fine Art Degree. Christina completed her PGCE at The Institute of Education UCL. Following this, she also studied for an MA in Art and Design in Education, finishing with a distinction.

Selected Exhibitions

‘Artist/Parent’ Group show at Air Gallery, Manchester 2023

‘Linen and Mindfulness’ at Holborn House for Bloomsbury Festival, London 2022

‘Renewal’ Group Show of Female Creatives at Fitzrovia Community Centre, London 2022

‘Our New World: IWD22 Pop Up Gallery’ ArtGirlRising x Subject Matter x FORA, London 2022.

'Art and Design in Education MA Exhibition', Institute of Education, London 2016.

'The Dying Art', The Old School Rooms, The Round Chapel, London 2015.

'All The Fun Of The Fair', Aside Bside Gallery, London UK. 2014.

'A Letter in Mind', gallery@oxo, London UK. 2014.

'Art and Design PGCE Exhibition', Institute of Education, London UK. 2014.

'Creating New Clichés', Crypt Gallery, London UK. 2014.

'Degree Show', Kingston University, London UK. 2009.

'A Silent Apophany’, The Foundry, London UK. 2009.

'In the Realm of Light', New Cross Gallery, London UK. 2008.

Weighing the Sublime', Stanley Picker Gallery, London UK. 2008. 

'State', Shoreditch Town Hall, London UK. 2008.

Selected Workshops and Events: 

Family Creates Series for Zabludowicz Collection 2023 - Present 

Creative family workshops for Fitzrovia Chapel, themed around temporary exhibitions (Lee Miller, The Ward Revisited) and the architecture of the chapel itself, London 2022 - Present

‘Paint Misbehavin’ Art and Creative Play for Children, London 2019 - Present (nominated for Hoop and Bablands family awards 2020). 

Linen and Mindfulness embroidery workshops for adults at Holborn House for Bloomsbury Festival, London 2022

Mark-making workshop for Families at Waddington Custot for London Gallery Weekend, London 2022

‘Surrealist Family Morning’ Tate Modern, London 2022.

Workshops for Homeless Young People for SPEAR, London 2020.

Teaching:

Since qualifying as a teacher in 2014, Christina has worked as an Art Teacher consistently in London schools at both primary and secondary level.
She currently works part time in an inner-city secondary school specialising in GCSE and A Level Art and Design. She is a visiting artist educator and creative consultant for a number of mainstream and SEND schools.