Clare McFarlane

Clare McFarlane was born and grew up in the small country town of Kojonup, Western Australia, and has lived in Perth since 1990. Clare completed a Masters and an Honours Degree in Fine Art from Curtin University, where she also completed a Graduate Diploma in Cultural Heritage. Much of her work contemplates the natural world, especially the local environment, our relationship to it and the way we express ourselves through our interpretation of it. She has used patterns as the image foundation and a metaphor for our culture and its conventions and its need for order and understanding. After the death of her father and inheriting the family farm with her sister, Clare’s work started to focus on the rural environment and farmland on which she grew up.

Clare has been exhibiting for over 25 years having held many solo exhibitions in Perth and Melbourne and participated in multiple group shows. She has won a number of art prizes and also completed multiple public artworks and murals for various agencies including the State Government, the City of Perth and the City of Subiaco. Her work can be found in numerous collections including Artbank, the Cruthers Collection at the University of WA, Janet Holmes à Court Collection, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, City of Perth, City of Bayswater, City of Wanneroo, Perth Children’s Hospital, as well as many private collections.