Exhibition in Braidwood NSW

Come along to The Altenberg in Braidwood to see my pinhole photographs from the lightspeed series. Opening friday night 19th August and closing 11 September.

Here is the clip that show the process of making these images.

Through Hell an High Water

Welcome

Macrame Owl, created by Claire Conroy. 4m x 1m

Open Aviary - pin hole photograph by Claire Conroy. 1m x 1.2m

Through Hell and High Water

Thursday 21 April - Sunday 1 May

Through Hell and High Water is a group exhibition curated by Claire Conroy. The show is a survey of the tumultuous relationship between humans and nature. Through photography, installation, performance, video and sculpture, the artists reveal, send-up and observe how people coexist with the natural environment.

In a year already filled with natural disaster, this exhibition is a relational approach to human suffering, environmental protection, and coexistence in fragile ecosystems.

• Exhibiting Artists: Claire Conroy, Emma Pressman, Huckleberry Robbings, Ben Schuman, Joaly Bird, Maddy Scarff.
• Opening: Thursday 21 April, 5pm - 8pm
• Address:  Chrissie Cotter Gallery is located in Pidcock Street, Camperdown,  next to the Camperdown Bowling Club. 
  When in use, gallery opening hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 11am-4pm. Entry is free and the gallery is wheelchair accessible.
  It will be lovely to see you there. 
  I have some new sculpture and installation and some exciting new artists that I'm exhibiting with.
   It will be a fun and interesting night that everyone is welcome to. Proceeds from the bar will be donated to the organisation Still Wild Still Threatened  to continue to protect the southern Tasmanian Forests. www.stillwildstillthreatened.org
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The Collective Mind

The Collective Mind

A sculpture made by In Stitches for the carriage works 2010. It is an incarnation of the evolving and ever changing crochet from The Sydney Reef. We will make it into a reef again but as we love the material so much that we will keep creating new things with it. The Collective Mind is a nod to all the contributors to the crochet and our collective creation.
contributors listed here .... http://sydneyreef.blogspot.com/2009/07/opening-announced.html

The Collective Mind

The Collective Mind

Cats and Ladders

Title - 'Absorption'

Title - 'Infinite Bear.'

In this exhibition, I have created a series of images that explore superstitious beliefs about the soul being captured in portrait photography. I'm interested in the physicality of the light that has left the sitters body, which it is actually rendered in the emulsion of the image, if this holds traces of the person’s soul or not is perhaps superstitious or practical magic and is open to interpretation. Yet it is true that this photographic negative holds a direct connection to the light that touched the skin of the person you can see. In this seriesI have combined a number of black and white darkroom techniques that create a hand made, collaged effect that furthers the ‘one off ’ quality of these images, bending the images between positive negative, photograph and photogram. To create these images I hand made a pin hole camera from a 4m long x 2m high light proof tent.

CATS AND LADDERS

COME ALONG... to my new exhibition at  Alpha House Gallery  - 226 Union St Erskineville NSW
Opening on the 22nd of September  6pm. - 26th gallery opened 10pm till 6pm daily...part of the Sydney Fringe Festival.

The Sydney Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

Claire Conroy co-facilitated the Sydney satellite of this global collaborative project as a member of

'In Stitches' collective.

The Sydney Reef brought together more than 360 creators over eleven months.

 

THE SYDNEY REEF is a Satellite of the worldwide Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project created by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles.

Sydney Reef Poster - 2009 - Created by Charlotte Haywood.

 

Above: Network Image - Created by In Stitches collective.

detailing the interconnections of groups forming throughout the eleven moths of this collaborative project.

 

Installation - Ten attolls spanned over 25 meters in The Powerhouse Museum in August 2009. For more details of the Sydney project link to sydneyreef.blogspot.com 
Photographs by Claire Conroy.

 see theiff.org to find out more about the mathematics, marine biology and ecological issues underlying the Crochet Reef Project and to see the other Satellite Reefs growing around the world.

UFO

Claire’s video titled UFO is being exhibited at Penrith Regional Gallery (see details in image below). The work shows a strange and ephemeral sculpture being released into the night sky. People witnessed the event by randomly passing by and some travelled to find the source of these unidentifiable lights. The performers/participants in the event were creating communication havoc with the skies by way of making UFO’s.