Claire Mooney

In her work, Claire Mooney explores abstraction and landscape, using iterative processes to break down and interweave organic and geometric structures.   
 
Over the course of her practice, she has investigated how the formal language of abstraction and pattern can be used to draw references to landscape, technology, text and textiles, coding and craft.
 
Her recent paintings evolve through a collage-like process of cutting, layering and erasing, alternately building up then scraping and sanding back fragments of imagery over and over again. Through this process, tensions arise between forms, liminal edges and broken repetition, allowing ruptures and slippages to undermine any persistent geometry.
 

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Exhibitions
solo

2024 Pattern Evolution - Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2022 Cloud Creek Water - Five Walls, Melbourne
2020 A part and between - Five Walls, Melbourne
Fugitive geometries - Gallerysmith, Melbourne
2016 Pattern Remains - Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
2015 Lost Forms - c3 Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2013 A Slow Swarm Across the Surface - Red Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Over & Out - Bus, Melbourne
2006 At which point... - Bus, Melbourne
2005 26 Colours - Bus, Melbourne

group

2025 Summer Salon - Tacit Art, Melbourne
2023 Kennedy Art Prize - Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery, Adelaide
Abstraction - Five Walls, Melbourne
2022 The Other Art Fair - Meat Market, Melbourne
Banyule Works on Paper Award - Ivanhoe Library and Cultural Hub, Melbourne
Tape Twenty Twenty Two - Five Walls, Melbourne
2021 Banyule Works on Paper Award - Ivanhoe Library and Cultural Hub, Melbourne
City of Darebin Art Prize - Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
2018 Exploration 18 - Flinders Lane Gallery, Melbourne
Accession - Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne
St Kevin's Art Prize - Melbourne
2017 Notfair 5 - Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
2015 The Mad Minute - Rubicon ARI, Melbourne
Place & Space - Red Gallery, Melbourne
2014 City of Albany Art Prize - Albany Town Hall, WA
Connections - George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
Pinpoint - Hatch Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2013 Sensations of Artmaking - Victorian Artists Society, Melbourne
2012 Crossing Boundaries - George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Something in the Air - Gipps St Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Substation Contemporary At Prize - Melbourne
Post - Place Gallery, Melbourne
Agendo 2009 - Deakin University, Melbourne
2008 Rumble in the Gallery, Bus vs Blindside - City Library Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Postscript - RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
Minute Possibilities - Red Gallery, Melbourne
Lexicon - City Library Gallery, Melbourne
2005 Translation - 101 Gallery, Melbourne
New Painting Heroes - Downtown Artspace, Adelaide
2004 Athenaeum Club Visual Arts Award - Athenaeum Club Melbourne
Special - Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award - ANZ Bank, Melbourne

Collections

Athenaeum Club Contemporary Art Collection, Melbourne - City of Darebin

Awards

2010 Postgraduate Diploma of Education (Visual Art) - The University of Melbourne
2004 Master of Visual Art - Victorian College of the Arts
1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) - RMIT


2023 Kennedy Art Prize - Finalist
2022 Banyule Works on Paper Award - Finalist
2021 Banyule Works on Paper Award - Finalist
City of Darebin Art Prize - Finalist
Made in Rezza - Artist project commission
2018 St Kevin's Art Prize - Finalist
2015 City of Yarra Small Projects Grant
2014 City of Albany Art Prize - Finalist
2009 Substation Contemporary At Prize - Finalist
Agendo - Finalist
2008 NAVA Janet Holmes à Court grant
Melbourne Fringe Festival - Visual Arts Award
2004 Athenaeum Club Visual Arts Award - Winner
ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award - Highly commended
David Teleskivi Memorial Sculpture Prize - Winner
Galloway Lawson Award - Winner

Residencies

2017 Bundoora Homestead Nebula Artist Residency - Melbourne