Melbourne Artist Supplies – Professional Practice Award
The Koodak Award for Academic Excellence in Gold and Silversmithing
Glimpsing mourning: an encounter of loss, mourning & ecological grief.
This project has grown out of the urgency I feel to address personal and ecological mourning and grief in the era of climate change, otherwise known as the Capitalocene. This is also the age of the Eremocene, as the American biologist, ecologist and naturalist E. O. Wilson has argued, a time of loneliness where humans are witnessing the collapse and disappearance of the diversity of life on earth. Utilising multisensory mixed-media installations and performance this research presents audiences with a series of ephemeral and often biodegradable immersive installations methodologically shaped by durational ‘repetitive acts’ such as growing flora, harvesting flowers for ink, stringing hundreds of individual flowers to make rope, and walking over plant material to make marks. In doing so, this research aims to sit with the ‘trouble’ of personal and ecological loss, an inherently anti-capitalist and anti-productionist act, to imagine possible material and life-world futures that challenge extractive futures and the nature-culture divide.
Juliette Claire is a multisensory mixed-media artist based in Naarm, practicing on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri. She is completing an Honours in Fine Art (RMIT University), and holds Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture) (RMIT) and an Advanced Diploma of Object and Jewellery Design (Melbourne Polytechnic). Utilising multisensory mixed-media installation and performance her works are spatial, durational and engage the senses.
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