Claire Foord, an emerging Australian artist, celebrates in her work occurrences of transformation in a style which is unpredictable, liberated and exposed. Awards and grants have enabled Claire to exhibit her artwork abroad. For the past 12 months while based in Montreal, her work was selected for several international exhibitions including galleries in California, USA and Montreal, Canada, with invitations to exhibit in Germany and New York on the horizon. Her career has seen her as curator, exhibitor and instigator from group and solo shows to live art murals and community art involvement. Claire’s work is part of private collections in Australia, New York and Canada and is shown in visual arts collections at institutions in Montreal.
“I draw inspiration from my travels, be they locally, internationally or on a walk around the block. I often collect little items of inspiration while traveling or walking the street and many of these items can be found within my work both literally and metaphorically. I’m interested in change, growth and evolution. I am drawn to reflect in my works on occurrences of transformation…it intrigues me that something or someone may exist with a role to play or an intent and over time, over the course of events, through natural or manufactured means, it or they evolve and transform to serve as a new form, function or intent, even if defunct. Emotive and affecting my works evolve into a beautiful mess where residual lines and initial marks lay visible through the paintings surface. ” says Claire of her work.
Colour Theory, at Urban Cow Studio, an exhibition of colour experimentation sees Claire taking reference from the neurological condition synesthesia and chromotherapy or colour therapy in a visual art representation which explores these phenomena together with basic principles of colour theory; the colour wheel, colour harmony & the context of how colours are used. The exhibition is a response to the generic and things that would habitually be deemed as void of colour. The works titles reveal painted responses to “the colour of rain”, “the colour of swagger” and “the colour of quirky” to name a few. Opening night sees a colour therapist providing a colour reading for exhibition goers.
Urban Cow Studio Gallery
11 Frome Street, Adelaide SA 5000
contact | 8232 6126 | Urban Cow
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