Christian Spencer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1977.
He is a professional artist, filmmaker and photographer. Since a young age Christian was always interested in nature and started painting professionally in 1996 in Adelaide. In 1998 he moved to a sheep station in a isolated farm in the heart of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia to work and paint.
Since 2001 he has spent long periods in Brazil exhibiting his paintings and going on to win 19 international wards for his artistic documentaries on nature.
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 25 years of career Christian Spencer has used the canvas, film, music and photography 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 orchestrated cosmos”
BOOK AWARDS
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
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
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