CLAIRE HURELY

Claire is an Irish artist, born in Limerick, and has spent many years travelling which informs her multi-disciplinary practice. Her current work explores the materiality of bodily forms through a practice of expanded

sculpture and photography that specifically engages with nature and natural materials found in the landscape. Her work engages in questions of climate anxiety, our relationship with landscape and our capacity to shape the world around us and within us..

Having a Bachelors degree in Archaeology (UCG) informs her work and interest in history, human ritual, culture and myth and the material ways we express ourselves as humans to find greater meaning. She has received awards in fashion design and millinery and she is currently doing a Post Graduate diploma in Art and Ecology in NCAD.

Most recently she had several exhibitions in Spain, including at the Palacio de Condestable in Pamplona in collaboration with photographer Manuel Vason, after her residencies in the Centro Huarte Centre for Contemporary Art and at the Museum of Environmental Education with Arbola festival. Her installations and photograph work was also exhibited at the National Park of Roncal Interpretative Centre (Ministry of Environment).

She has been awarded funding from the Arts Council of Ireland, Culture Ireland, Creative Europe and Limerick County Council and is an Associate member of Spacecraft Studios in Limerick city.