About

Biography

Born in the Northern Beaches of Sydney on the traditional lands of the Garigal people, Australia, 1973.

Lives and works on Kaurna Yerta - Adelaide, South Australia, since 2004.

Christian trained in contemporary jewellery and object making and gained a Master of Visual Arts in the field from the Sydney College of the Arts in 2003.

Hall has taught at the Sydney College of the Arts, Adelaide College of the Arts, and the South Australian School of Art, and worked as the Creative Director of the Jewellery and Metal Studio at JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design, a peak national visual arts institution.

Hall’s sculptural practice explores space, place, material, and time. Through his interest in metal, making, and skill, Hall has developed a view of objects, not as static containers for meaning, but as dynamic and productive of connections between people, places and the stuff of our material world. For Hall, his studio-based creative practice embodies passages between subjects and objects. The studio, like remote areas of natural environments, is a place to observe and reflect on the tangled nature of people, place and matter, and the shared forces of mutual transformation through which they persist. Although predominately a solitary maker, Hall remains awake to the social dimensions of material-led practice.

Through a PhD practice-as-research project Hall explored the sculptural potential of steel as a kind of connective tissue stretched between the human and more-than-human, and living and nonliving entities. This research entailed an ethical dimension: understanding steel as enduring evidence of what we choose to hold in place.

For 20 years Christian has been selected for national and international touring exhibitions and participated in residencies locally and overseas.