Claire Tracey
Claire is a researcher and artist exploring ideas of sustainability and creative collaboration. She is interested in how artists can create audience engagement that generates awareness and thought about humanity’s connection to the planet.
Situated in the field of Public Art, Claire collaborates with arts and culture institutions, businesses, and international enterprises to create large scale sculptures and installations. Working with assemblage, she uses upcycled items generated by different types of organisations to provoke discussion around ideas of consumption, design, responsibility, and purpose, seeking to redefine and revalue the materiality of waste through art.
Claire has produced and exhibited works nationally and internationally. She has initiated collaborations with The Flight Centre Group, The Municipality of Sile, The Xian School of Art and Design, Moonee Ponds Council, Melbourne City Council, Parramatta City Council, The Chinese Australian Museum, Brisbane City Council and The National Library of Australia. Claire received Arts and Culture funding from the City of Melbourne to produce an environmental public art installation at The Chinese Australian Museum. She won a National Museum and Galleries Award for this project. Claire has received further funding from the City of Melbourne, for an interactive fountain in 2014, The City of Parramatta, for temporary artwork for the Parramatta Festival in 2013 and 2018 Brisbane City Council for the creation of a public artwork honoring the 20th anniversary of the Narashino agreement with Japan. In 2010 Claire was funded by The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to participate in a public art research project at the World Expo in Shanghai, working with the Meridians research group. This RMIT lead initiative was part of the Design Research Institute. Claire is a current Doctoral candidate and sessional staff member at The Queensland College of the Art. She holds a Masters of Art in Public Space Degree and an Honours Degree in Fine Arts, majoring in Sculpture.
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