John Christie: Accordion Music

About the artist

John Christie b. 1945 UK

Lives and works in East Anglia.

John Christie is a visual artist and broadcast filmmaker. 

As a maker of artists’ books since 1975, he has produced more than 20 limited editions for both the renowned Circle Press and his own imprint Objectif. Alongside John Berger, he co-authored the award-winning book I Send You This Cadmium Red. His prints, drawings and artists’ books are in many collections worldwide including the Tate Gallery, the V&A, the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, New York Public Library and the National Library of Australia.   As a director/cameraman his art-related TV programmes include Another Way of Telling, a BBC series on photography made in collaboration with John Berger and Jean Mohr; Salvage of Soho Photographer, a C4 documentary on John Deakin; and First Hand, a series of seven films based on literary manuscripts from the British Library.  John Christie is one of the four founding members of the award-winning East Anglian publisher Full Circle Editions and also of the FlipSide literary and music festival held at the Aldeburgh Music complex, Snape Maltings, every autumn.

John and Kip worked together in 2023 to produce this striking print Accordion Music.