ALWAYS WAS . ALWAYS WILL BE . ABORIGINAL LAND

jean claire - She / Her / Mx
currently living in 📍 Meanjin
[-o-] on the unceded lands of the Turrbal + Jagera people
📷 Expanded Documentary and Fine Art Photographer
🎓 DVA candidate and HDR Representative@qcagriffith
✏ Current research explores memory / identity /womxn
contact me via email 📧 jeanclaire[dot]art[at]gmail[dot]com
linktr.ee/jeanclaire

View fullsize When a mother comes and shares her stories of a teenage daughter who walked these same streets ❤️‍🩹 there is healing in the telling of our stories, connecting experiences, interwoven narratives - one woman to another mother, who was once just a
View fullsize This was going to be a post about coming down to see my show before it ends and it very quickly became a love bomb 🥰 with Mitch Wright ❤️‍🔥 There’s a closing event tonight from 💥 NOW 💥 til 730/8ish. The gallery is also open over the we
View fullsize Wild Women are gathering tonight… we will stand up and tell our stories in prose and poetry. Sharing our experiences with womanhood, mothering / being mothered (and or not), and identity 🙌🏼 . Tonight from 5 at @tactilearts . . . Thank you M
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View fullsize I’m sitting the gallery today and tomorrow 10-4 🙌🏼 come say hi and see my face, oh and check out the beautiful things I’ve made during my 3 month residency at @tactilearts
View fullsize Artist book. Years in the making and two back to back residencies… Womanhood with @celdelnord and Reparation at @tactilearts 🙌🏼 2022 . . . #handmadePaper #lofiPhotos #cyanotypes #sunPrints #textBasedCollage #comingHome #calico #bookBinding #
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View fullsize my great Aunty Marie 🥰 I’m so grateful I got to see and spend some time with her just before she celebrated her 102nd birthday. I loved joining Aunty Marie for morning coffee at the little favourite and uncle johns over the years 🤗 I rememb
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View fullsize #ausmusictshirtday the one and only @thewhitlams.official 🤘🏼 best band in Aus & beyond 🙌🏼 🎶 hashtag torch the moon 🎶 ‘03
View fullsize CLOSING EVENT 🙌🏼 TONIGHT . Come for a night of canapés and cultural flanerie 🧐🥳 . QCA HDR Represent A 2021 Retrospective This exhibition showcases the ongoing work of the current Doctoral cohort at QCA. These diverse artworks are the r
View fullsize I have new works in a little ol group show in the valley . Pulling together a showcase of 24 artists, all of whom are in the midst of their doctoral journeys, amidst a pandemic has been a mammoth effort and well worth it!! Thank you @clairetraceyart
View fullsize #QCAatHome connecting with memories and archival materials to create new work. I’ve been feeling stuck for a little while and this one memory has been niggling at the forefront for some time. I’ve worked to create around this memory many
View fullsize So grateful to have these beauties in my hot little hands! such gorgeous works, Ana I truly admire your practice 🥰 thank you for your generous donation to the @griffith_printmakers_club fundraiser auction 👏 and thank you @matthew_newkirk_art for ma
View fullsize Welcome to the Dream House 💁🏻‍♀️ by @aesthetic_illusion congrats on being PhinisheD 🎓 it’s a truly beautiful show!!!
View fullsize National Sorry Day 🖤💛❤️‍🩹
View fullsize This woman, my mother’s mother. Nana. Betty. Nan. One of three girls and a twin. 👭Daughter to a warrior of a woman. Strength and independence run deep in our veins. She is resilient, and while staunch in her beliefs, there is a curiosity and o
View fullsize Wonderful visit to the Blacktown gallery today!This particular trip down the coast is all about connecting with where I come from, and so of course the universe delivers by way of an interactive showcase on local history. From the very first sunrise
View fullsize green tea toning cyanotypes makes for an earthy purpley-brown. Perfection achieved over almost 24hrs of soaking. If Angela were a colour, I’d say this hits pretty close to home 🙏🏼 . . . #intergenerationalRelationships #motherDaughter #women