Artist’s Statement
My visual art practice involves work in charcoal, pen, watercolour, acrylic, oil and organic materials, in response with my body to interior/exterior spaces I exist in and travel to. Work as a musician informs my practice in relation to exploring languages that connect our inner and out worlds.
Biography
I am an interdisciplinary artist from Allora Queensland, currently based in Meanjin/Brisbane. I graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in Honours at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. I completed a printmaking internship at QCA. And have worked a as an Art Tutor at Qld TAFE, and Music Teacher at The Australian Academy of Music. Residencies include The Booringa Fire & Water Festival 2019 and Naidoc Week 2018 - Ngulalma ngalinda because of her we can, that took place on Gunggari/Mitchel country, 2018. I completed a two week residency at the University of Hawaii where a series of lithographs were completed. I also practice as a musician as a singer-songwriter, releasing second album, Desire Notes on vinyl this year. A project that also involves my visual concepts.
Influences
Mararet Olley, Jude Roberts, William Robinson, Pipilotti Rist, Zoe Porter
Awards
Recent achievements include Winner of the Womankind Illustration Award 2022 and People’s Choice at The Goondiwindi Show 2021. In 2010 I was a finalist at the Black Swan Prize for Portraiture with my painting of Fiona Foley, the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing and a finalist in the Lethbridge 10000 prize. I won the Warwick Art Gallery Prize for drawing 2007.
Exhibitions
My exhibition history includes performance piece Tax Purge in Collaboration with Eggvein at Laura St Festival 2021; Featruring with Zoe Porter and Adam Anderson for The End of The Line Festival, Pop Gallery 2017; taking part in the group drawing show Body Politic at Crane Arts in Philadelphia 2014 and my solo exhibition at Dogget St Gallery, Brisbane in 2012. I have been part of significant group projects including Artist in Residence at The Booringa Fire & Water Festival 2019. I am part of Remapping Mitchell Art Collective, exhibiting at Mitchell Gallery November 03, 2023; series that re-stories the way lands have been mapped on and around the Maranoa. My next solo exhibition of drawings and paintings is at Kaye West Studios in Camp Hill, September 16th.
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Clare Cowley
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42 x 29.7 x 2 cm Lithograph $480.00