Exhibition
Clare McFarlane // Dark Farm
Clare McFarlane, Smoke on a Dark Horizon, 2023, acrylic on board, 30 x 30cm
After inheriting the farm she grew up on after her father's death, Clare McFarlane's work began to examine our relationship with the rural farming environment. She continues to explore the ongoing impact of western farming and the accelerating changing climate on the land through this new series of works which meditate on an underlying menace within the Australian landscape.
// Clare McFarlane was born and grew up in the small country town of Kojonup 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.
Her work can be found in numerous collections including the Cruthers Collection at UWA, Janet Holmes à Court Collection, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University and Artbank among others.
