Clara MARTIN

Clara Martin is an artist and designer based in Launceston, Tasmania. She has developed an artistic practice that has grown to include graphic and textiles design, printmaking, and photography. She has multiple qualifications in the greater design field including a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Tasmania.

Her artistic practice incorporates traditional methods of making, favouring handcrafted textiles, as well as analogue photography and darkroom processes. These mediums are ones that allow her to explore and create large bodies of art and research. Her work focuses on the theory of liminality through tradition, process, and performance. She maintains focus on the act of making, the ways people will interact with objects and spaces, and contexts of these relationships. Her past bodies of work have explored themes of tradition and inheritance, grief and trauma, as well as explorations of the human relationships to certain spaces.

In conjunction to this, she has developed a curatorial and gallery practice, which has her currently working as a Gallery Technician at Design Tasmania in Launceston. She has also served as the director of the Precinct Art Society and Powerhouse Gallery respectively, seeing a full schedule of exhibitions come to life. She has worked as an intern at funding body RANT Arts, and volunteered in the installation of various exhibitions including the Glover Art Prize.