Clare McCracken

Clare McCracken is a mixed-media conceptual artist and writer working in Naarm/Melbourne. She works site-responsively, across disciplines and collaboratively with other artists to create works that interrogate contemporary social, political and environmental issues from an settler-Australian perspective. Clare’s creative outcomes include large-scale immersive installations, performative fieldwork, temporary and permanent public artworks and narrative non-fiction audio and written works.

Clare has created over 30 temporary public artworks for sites across Melbourne, Hobart and Sydney - including Federation Square and Cockatoo Island and exhibited locally and internationally including at the 2019 Bienal de la Habana, Cuba and as part of WORD OF MOUTH, a Venice Biennale pop-up curated by Peter Hill. Over the last couple of years Clare has been shortlisted for the Nillumbik Art Prize, the Darebin Art Prize, the Wangaratta Contemporary Textile Award and the Hardie Grant Spark Prize for Narrative Nonfiction Writing. Her work is in private collections, the State Library of Victoria’s rare book collection, the Wangaratta Art Gallery, City of Hume and City of Greater Dandenong collections.

In 2020 Clare completed her PhD at RMIT University.  As the recipient of the prestigious Vice Chancellors scholarship her practice-led research sat at the intersection of art, cultural geography and urban theory. She employed innovative performance methods to research how mobility systems coproduce space, place and landscape across generations in Australia. In 2019 she won an RMIT University Research Award in the Higher Degree by Research – Impact Category. 

CV available on request - clare@mccracken.com.au