Claire Bridge — 'Torus' Sculpture, 2022

Biomorphic forms incorporating hints of the symbolic, drip with painterly exuberance, tactile glazed colour and intriguing details. Considering contemporary social and ecological concerns, Claire blends and reframes cross-cultural mythologies, archetypal narratives, and intimately personal biographies.

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Claire Bridge is a multi-disciplinary practitioner based in Melbourne/Naarm. Claire’s work spans sculpture, ceramics, painting, video and installation. Claire hand-builds hybrid ceramic sculptures with a keen sensitivity to collaborating with her medium, combining clay’s fluid materiality with traces of the body’s touch.

Drawing on her Indian and Anglo-European mixed-cultural heritages, her work navigates landscapes of cultural and ecological hybridity. Through combining experimental approaches and hybrid materials, she explores concepts of the ‘body’ as collective, multiple, relational, and more-than-human. Claire’s work is held in distinguished collections including The Maroondah City Council Art Collection, The University of Melbourne (SAB), Honorary Consulate of Monaco, and private collections across Australia and internationally. Claire studied a Master of Contemporary Art (First Class Honours), VCA-MCM, University of Melbourne, (2021). Recent projects include Vessels for ‘Melbourne Now (2023), NGV Australia, Acephalous, Beechworth Biennale (2024), Vas Holos, Meat Market (2023).

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Material: glazed ceramic

Dimensions: approx. 13 x 25 x 35cm