Claire lives in Dunedin, New Zealand and has graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Dunedin School of Art in 2012.
Through my work I explore an inner world of questioning and expression regarding evolution with specific focus on genetics, the human body and its environments. Multiple layers of paint accumulate upon the canvas leaving impressions of their photographic source. Autobiographical in nature these motifs mix, weave and then evolve into new forms and layers that build up the visual image and become memories that reoccur while painting.
Although these motifs are abstract they refer to representational objects. Man-made objects, for example MRI scans and petri dishes are mixed with motifs referencing the body, internal organs and cellular structures. The motifs become more abstracted from their source material to the stage that a unique language develops.
Selected Exhibition, Awards & Publications
- 2015 Shadow Self Salon des femmes Group Show @ Mint Gallery, Dunedin
- 2015 ODT Art Seen 19 March Shadow Self
- 2015 Free Form Group Show @ Kereru Gallery, Tasman
- 2014 Art & Anatomy Group Show @ Hunter Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin
- 2014 Scope Contemporary Research Topics – art & design 9 November 2014
- 2014 Hellcats Salon des femmes Group Show @ Dowling Street Studios, Dunedin
- 2013 Between Ourselves Solo Show @ Dowling Street Studios, Dunedin
- 2012 Feldspar Emerging Artist Scholarship Award
- 2012 Menagerie Group Show @ Graham Warman Photography Studio, Dunedin
- 2012 Cumulus @ SITE 2012 Dunedin School of Art Graduate Show, Dunedin