Artist Lenton Parr said of Christine that she valued art “as a gift to the spirit and a source of pleasure and enlightenment.
There he was influenced by Reg Butler and Eduardo Paolozzi to work with enamelled steel structures, which was to become his lifelong specialty.
Instigated by the former tertiary institution Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), as a separate and complementary institution, VCASS was founded in 1978 by Lenton Parr and Jack Pitt (as the Victorian College of the Arts Technical School - VCATS).
Martin Parr | Catherine Parr | Lenton Parr | Lenton | William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton | Samuel Parr | Lenton, Nottingham | John Parr | Sir Thomas Parr | Sakiko Fukuda-Parr | Parr, St Helens | Parr's Bank | Parr | Mike Parr | Lily Parr | Catharine Parr Traill | William Parr Greswell | William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Kendal | William Parr | Scha Dara Parr | Old Tom Parr | Nowell Parr | Margaret Parr, Holt Waring's young widow | John Wayne Parr | Jim Parr | Holy Trinity Church, Lenton | Harry Parr-Davies | Elizabeth Parr-Johnston | Cape Parr | Amanda Parr |
In 1953 she was with Inge King, Julius Kane and Clifford Last and was founding member of the 'Group of Four' and in 1961 she joined the artists grouping 'Centre Five' (among others Inge King, Julius Kane, Clifford Last, Lenton Parr, Vincas Jomantas and Teisutis Zikaras ), who broke with the VSS and organised private exhibitions.
It holds works by leading Australian artists (many of which are alumni or former faculty of RMIT), such as: Howard Arkley, John Brack, Leonard French, Roger Kemp, Inge King, Max Meldrum, John Olsen, Lenton Parr, Fred Williams and others.
Around 1960, he joined with Clifford Last, Inge King, Vincas Jomantas and Lenton Parr to form a splinter group which exhibited together as the 'Centre Five'.