ABOUT
Clare Davies is an Australian artist working across sculpture, film, print and installation.She has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions.
Her work has featured in group exhibitions A New Feminine? Airspace Projects, Sydney, 2015, IMPACT, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2014, What it means to be human, Fremantle Arts Centre, 2013, Window, 24-Hour Art, Darwin, 2012, Constellations, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne 2010 and Better Places, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth 2008. Solo exhibitions include Opposing Forces, c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne, 2013, Island Life, VENN gallery, Perth, 2011 and a miraculous memory, Fremantle Arts Centre, 2010.
Clare has work in the collections of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, City of Fremantle, Little Creatures Print Collection as well as private collections in Australia, Japan, UK and Europe. Her work has received grants from Australia Council (New work Grant), Department of Culture end the Arts WA (Arts Development).
She has undertaken the following residencies: Moya Dyring Studio, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (2004), Moores Studio Artist in Residence, Fremantle (2009),Bundanon Trust, Shoalhaven, NSW (2009) and City of Yarra Artist in Residence, Fitzroy (2015).
Clare received a Bachelor of Fine Art (Printmaking) 1998 and a Graduate Diploma in Film and TV (Animation) 2002 both from the Victorian College of the Arts. Clare was based in Western Australia from 2006 to 2011 and currently lives in Melbourne.
ECOSYSTEM
Positive growth.
Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf. Art is applied to the mixture of his will with the same things, as in a house, a canal, a statue, a picture. But his operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing, that in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result.
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.
ECOSYSTEM
Positive growth.
Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf. Art is applied to the mixture of his will with the same things, as in a house, a canal, a statue, a picture. But his operations taken together are so insignificant, a little chipping, baking, patching, and washing, that in an impression so grand as that of the world on the human mind, they do not vary the result.
Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every man’s condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.