Christina Darras is an interdisciplinary artist of Athenian Greek origin. Darras is a maker, an artist whose practice strongly connects to the handmade and lengthy processes. She employs a variety of materials to approach issues of identity and non-identity: While identity unifies or divides people, Non-identity is a place with undefined borders. She is attracted to hand-based methods and connects with the humility and lonesomeness of time-consuming craftsmanship. In her practice, she combines painting, embroidery, printmaking, jewellery and installations to define the intermediate space, a transitional area, of an undefined self.
Christina has studied painting at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, and Printmaking at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. She lived most of her life in Athens and moved to Melbourne in 2016, and in 2021, she graduated from VCA with a Master's in Contemporary Art. Her practice has influences from all the different countries and cultures that she has lived in. Although her making is long and solitary, Darras constantly creates collaborations with artists from the same or very different disciplines, experimenting with dialogues between materials and altered languages. The space of not belonging is the one that she inhabits the most.