Career
Artist Lenton Parr said of Christine that she valued art "as a gift to the spirit and a source of pleasure and enlightenment." She was Manager of Powell Street Gallery between 1976 and 1980 (the lessees were Melbourne solicitor Harry Curtis and a Caulfield doctor, David Rosenthal), and a Company-Director of Axiom Gallery from 1980 to 1982. Christine founded the eponymous on 12 February 1983 at 27 Gipps Street Richmond, an inner, once-industrial, suburb of Melbourne, in the same precinct as an increasing number of other commercial galleries, including the long-running Pinacotheca Gallery. The building was converted in 1980 from a clothing factory by the architect of Abrahams" own 1982 Brighton residence, Daryl Jackson, who preserved the industrial aesthetic of exposed trusses, bare concrete floors and steel roller-door.
Jackson himself exhibited at the gallery in April 1984, showing drawings and models for a "more humane" neo-industrial style. showed a broad spectrum of visual arts by contemporary artists, architects, sculptors, potters, photographers, jewellers, and furniture makers.
The gallery closed after 25 years in November 2008.