BIOGRAPHY

Christian Spencer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1977.

He started painting professionally in 1996 in Adelaide and in 1998 moved to a isolated sheep station in the heart of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia to work and paint.It was there that Christian Spencer developed his own style mixing islamic geometry, meso american motifs, tribal art with the harsh beauty of the Australian Outback.

In the year 2000 he moved to Brazil and since 2001 lives and works in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro state, among the rich biodiversity of the Atlantic Rainforest inside the National Park of Itatiaia. The rich natural and cultural history of Brazil had a important part in the development of his paintings, enriching even more his unique style. He has shown his works in many exhibitions around Brazil, Australia and Europe.

In 2006 he made the first of 3 films on Brazil,s exuburent nature which went on to win 19 awards in important film festivals all over the world.

In 2008 he participated of a Art Residency in the Egon Schiele Art Centrum in Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic. There he produced the film “Swimming Through Dimensions”, a video art about the alchemical symbols and gothic architecture of the town. These themes were also represented in his canvas and paper work.

Recently Christian has been awarded many prizes in international photo competitions, being "Highly Commended" at the Wildlife Photographer of the year 2021, winner in the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2021 in the "Animal Habitat" category, winner in the Tokyo Photo Awards 2020. He also won the best overall photo 2014 and 2015 in the Ecological Society of Australia Photo Competition; winner in World Meteorological Organization photography awards and best photo award in the Canon College photography competition in Brazil in 2017 and also the prize “Fundação Casa da Cultura Macedo Miranda” at the 44º Art Salon of the Museum of Modern Art of Resende - RJ.

At the end of 2022 his book BIRDS Poetry in the sky was released by Teneues publishing in Germany and highlights his artistic way he has approached bird photography and has received many accolades including winning in the Tokyo Foto awards and PX3 Photo awards in Paris and Highly commended at the International photos awards 2023.

In these 18 years of career Christian Spencer has diverse his supports, using the canvas, film, music and photography the support to sustain his unique art, a representation of the abstraction that he sees in Nature, capturing the inter-relationship between the micro and macro, “the invisible orquestrated cosmos”.

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"O artista visual Christian Spencer utiliza diversos suportes para sua arte: tela, fotografia e vídeo.
Ao misturar arte e ciência, a arte de C.Spencer revela uma dimensão secreta da Vida, oferecendo um vislumbre da própria arte da natureza através de suas lentes e pincéis. Seu autêntico trabalho recebeu reconhecimento global por sua pureza e celebração da estética natural."

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BIOGRAFIA

Christian Spencer nasceu em Melbourne, Austrália, em 1977.

Começou a pintar profissionalmente em 1996 em Adelaide e em 1998 mudou-se para uma fazenda de ovelhas isolada no coração de Flinders Ranges, no sul da Austrália, para trabalhar e pintar. Foi lá que Christian Spencer desenvolveu seu próprio estilo misturando geometria islâmica, motivos mesoamericanos, arte tribal com a beleza do semi-árido do Outback australiano.

No ano de 2000 mudou-se para o Brasil e desde 2001 vive e trabalha nas montanhas do estado do Rio de Janeiro, em meio à rica biodiversidade da Mata Atlântica do Parque Nacional de Itatiaia. A rica história natural e cultural do Brasil teve papel importante no desenvolvimento de sua pintura, enriquecendo ainda mais seu estilo único. Já teve seus trabalhos em diversas exposições pelo Brasil, Austrália e Europa.

Em 2006 realizou o primeiro de 3 filmes sobre a natureza exuberante do Brasil que ganhou 19 prêmios em importantes festivais de cinema em todo o mundo.

Em 2008 participou de uma Residência Artística no Egon Schiele Art Centrum em Cesky Krumlov na República Tcheca. Lá produziu o filme “Swimming Through Dimensions”, uma videoarte sobre os símbolos alquímicos e a arquitetura gótica da cidade. Esses temas também foram representados em suas telas e obras em papéis.

Recentemente, Christian recebeu diversos prêmios em concursos internacionais de fotografia, sendo "Altamente Recomendado" no Wildlife Photographer of the Year do ano de 2021, vencedor no Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year 2021 na categoria "Habitat Animal", vencedor no Tokyo Photo Awards 2020. Ele também ganhou na categoria "melhor foto" em 2014 e 2015 no Concurso de Fotografia da Sociedade Ecológica da Austrália; vencedor do prêmio de fotografia da Organização Meteorológica Mundial e prêmio de melhor fotografia no concurso de fotografia do Canon College no Brasil em 2017 e também do prêmio “Fundação Casa da Cultura Macedo Miranda” no 44º Salão de Arte do Museu de Arte Moderna de Resende - RJ.

Ao final de 2022 seu livro "BIRDS Poetry in the sky" foi lançado pela editora TeNeues na Alemanha e destaca sua forma artística de fotografar pássaros e recebeu muitos elogios, incluindo a vitória nos prêmios Tokyo Foto e PX3 Photo Awards em Paris e altamente elogiado no International Photos Awards 2023.

Nestes 26 anos de carreira Christian Spencer tem diversos suportes, utilizando a tela, o filme, a música e a fotografia como suporte para sua arte única, uma representação da abstracção que vê na Natureza, captando a inter-relação entre o micro e o macro, “o cosmos invisível orquestrado”.

PRIZES

BOOK AWARDS

Winner Budapest Photo Awards Book category 2023

Winner Tokyo Foto awards 2023 Bronze Book category

Winner PX3 Photo awards Paris 2023 Bronze book category

Highly commended International photos awards 2023 book category PHOTOGRAPH AWARDS

PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

Winner 2nd Salão de Fotografias Museum of Modern Art Resende RJ Brazil 2022

Highly Commended "Natures Artristry" | WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR | London 2021

Highly commended | Nature Photographer of the Year | Holland | 2021

Winner "Animal Habitat" | Australia Geographic "Nature Photographer of the Year | Australia | 2021

Highly Commended | Bird Photographer of the Year | England | 2020

Winner | Tokyo Photo Awards | Japan | 2020

Winner | category “CEO Award”| Heritage Bank Photographic Awards | Australia | 2018

Finalist | HEAD ON Photo Awards | Australia | 2018

Winner | category “Exuberant Nature”| CANON college | Brazil | 2017

Highly commended | Nature Photographer of the Year | Holland | 2017

Highly commended | Australian Photographer of the Year | 2017

Honorable Mention | Monochrome Awards International Black and White Photography Contest | 2017

Prize “Fundação Casa da Cultura Macedo Miranda” | 44º Art Salon | Museum of Modern Art of Resende-RJ| 2016

Honorable Mention | Monochrome Awards International Black and White Photography Contest | 2015

Best Overall Photo | Ecological Society of Australia Photo Competition | Australia 2015

Finalist | Monocrome category | Travel Photographer of the Year 2015

Finalist | Head On Awards | Sydney Australia 2015

Commended Photo | Sony World Photography Awards | 2015

Highly Commended | Bio Photo Contest | Italy 2015

Highly Commended ZSL Animal Photography Prize London 2015

Winner of World Meteorological Organization Photography Awards 2015

Best Overall Photo | Ecological Society of Australia Photo Competition | Australia 2014

Winner | category “Exuberant Nature”| CANON college | Brazil | 2017

Highly commended | Tokyo International Photo Awards | Japan | 2017

Highly commended | Nature Photographer of the Year | Holland | 2017

Highly commended | Australian Photographer of the Year | 2017

Honorable Mention | Monochrome Awards International Black and White Photography Contest | 2017

Prize “Fundação Casa da Cultura Macedo Miranda” | 44º Art Salon | Museum of Modern Art of Resende-RJ| 2016

Honorable Mention | Monochrome Awards International Black and White Photography Contest | 2015

Best Overall Photo | Ecological Society of Australia Photo Competition | Australia 2015

Finalist | Monocrome category | Travel Photographer of the Year 2015

Finalist | Head On Awards | Sydney Australia 2015

Commended Photo | Sony World Photography Awards | 2015

Highly Commended | Bio Photo Contest | Italy 2015

Highly Commended ZSL Animal Photography Prize London 2015

Winner of World Meteorological Organization Photography Awards 2015

Best Overall Photo | Ecological Society of Australia Photo Competition | Australia 2014

FILM AWARDS

“CERRADO BEYOND THE MIST”

Best Ecological Film | 7th International Tourism Film Festival "Tourfilm Riga | Estonia 2014

Prize Artistic Creativity | FFEST DOCUMENT. ART. Romania 2013

Honorable Mention Yosemite International Film Festival .USA 2014

Best Film | Festival de Cinema Socioambiental da Serra do Cipó | Brazil 2013

Grand Prix | Jahorina Film Festival of Ecologia | Bosnia 2013

Special Prize | European Enviromental film festival | Bulgaria 2013

Best Script | FATU - Festival Brasileiro de Filmes de Aventura e Turismo | Paraty | Brazil 2013

“THE DANCE OF TIME”

Best Short Film | 5th International Festival of Social and Environmental Films of Nova Friburgo| Brazil

Best Lighting Film of Brasil | INPE 2011 | Brazil

Best Photography | Festival de cinema Petropolis | Rio de Janeiro | 2011 | Brazil

Special Prize | Orobie Film e Documentary Festival | Italia 2012

Best Experimental Film | | SENE Film e Arts festival | USA 2012

Special Prize | Swiss Mountain Film Festival | Swiss 2012

Best Film | Festival de Cinema Socioambiental da Serra do Cipó | Brazil 2012

Grand Prix Prize| Documentary and Ecological Film Festival | Servia 2013

Best Experimental Film | IFFEST DOCUMENT. ART. | Romania 2013

Special Prize | 10th International Matsalu Nature Film Festival | Estonia 2013

SELECETED ART EXHIBITIONS

2023

*Permanent Exhibition “VISÕES DO INVISÍVEL” | Christian Spencer | Parque Nacional das Emas | Brazil

2017

* Exhibition “ALMA DO MATO” | CHristian Spencer & Marcelo Motta| Museum of Itatiaia National Park| Brazil

2016

* Awarded artist | 44º Art Salon | Museum of Modern Art of Resende-RJ| Brazil

••Individual Exhibition Museum of Modern Art of Resende | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil.

2014

••Individual Exhibition Cultural Center of Visconde de Mauá | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil.

2012

• Exhibition Video Art of the film “dança do tempo”– Ukradaine Galery.

Cesky Krumlov - Czech Republic.

2011

•Individual Exhibition - Botanical Gardens of Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.

2008

• Collective, Doxa Gallery, Cesky Krumlv, Czech Republic.

• Two months of Artistic Residency in the Egon Schiele Art Centrum,

Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic.

2007

• Collective: Honourable Mention - Best of the Year,Central Bank of Brazil, Sao Paulo

2006

• •Individual Exhibition Central Bank of Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Blue Life Cultural Space, Av Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Australian Festival, World Trade Centre Hotel, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2005

• Museum of Modern Art, Resende, Rio de Janerio, Brazil.

• 60 years of Australia and Brazil, Invitation of Australian Embassy, Brasilia

2004

• Citygroup South American Headquarters, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Eco Arts Cultural Space, Itatiaia National Park, Rio e Janeiro, Brazil.

• Australian Festival, Renaissance Hotel, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2003

• Casa da Fazenda, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Australian Festival, Hyatt Hotel, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Botanical Gardens of Rio de Janerio, Rio de Janerio, Brazil.

2002

• Tanger Resturant, Sao Paulo, Brazil

• Australian Festival, Sheraton Hotel, Curitiba, Brazil.

• Australian Festival, Hyatt Hotel, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Australian Festival, Sesc Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Museum of Modern Art, Resende, Rio de Janerio, Brazil.

2001

• QBE Insurance opening in Brasil, Casa Rodia, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Brazilian Academy of Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Historic Museum of Institute Butantan, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

• Federal University of Sao Carlos, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2000

• Aix Chappell Gallery, Daylesford, Australia

• The Convent Gallery, Daylesford, Australia

1999

• Collective - Arts Sans Frontier Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

• Collective - Grand Freemasons Temple , Aderlaide, Australia

• Collective - Hawker art Show, Hawker, SA, Australia