BIO
Clare Fleming is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand. Her work explores the becoming subject in relation to the power structures of the late-capitalist white-supremacist patriarchy. Clare is currently a PhD candidate at Auckland University of Technology researching the performance of motherhood.
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EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours), University of Auckland 2016
New Zealand Certificate in Te Reo (Reo Rua) Level 3 & Level 4 Te Wananga o Aoteraroa 2011
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture), Otago Polytechnic School of Art 2009
SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY
2019
A momentary triumph of aggression over tenderness. RM Gallery, Auckland.
2017
Hardly Working, Rm Gallery, Auckland
2016
Landed, George Fraser Gallery, University of Auckland
2015
By Then, George Fraser Gallery, University of Auckland
2015
Wallace Awards, Salon des Refuses, Auckland
2014
One Thing For Certain, Railway St Studio, Auckland
2013
Other Echoes, Dunedin Botanic Garden.
Look Forward, Not Back (interloper bust). RH Gallery, Auckland Art Fair.
From Now On (No Garden of Eden). Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville.
Push to talk. Peace Gallery, Auckland, as part of One Day Wonder.
The Material World. Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Dunedin.
2012
Two but not two. 2012 Performance Series (Dunedin Fringe Festival), Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin.
2011
At once we are rootless and harbouring, floating on an inland sea (I am from here). Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin.
Qubit - A weekend of contemporary performance art. Anteroom, Port Chalmers
2010
Reconcile Yourself! Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Lets Roar Loudly! Lower Stuart Street, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Patriarchy Free Zone: Imagination Station. Otago University Art Week, Dunedin.
Ever newly begin the praise you cannot accomplish. Milnthorpe Park, Takaka.
2009
Post. Place Gallery, Richmond, Vic, Australia.
Instructional Models. Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand. Toasty. The Engine Room, Wellington, New Zealand.
Toasty. School of Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2008
Octarchy. Old Dunedin North Post Office, Dunedin, New Zealand. 13+8. Sew Hoy Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand.
The Grow Project. Dunedin Fringe Festival, Dunedin, New Zealand. 2007 Other, Dunedin, New Zealand.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015-2016 Graduate Teaching Assistant, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland
2003-2016 Freelance graphic designer.
2013 Chair of the Board of Trustees, Blue Oyster Art Project Space.
2012-2014 Member of the Board of Trustees, Blue Oyster Art Project Space.
2012 Editor/Designer, Let's Roar Loudly! Publication.
2010 Curator/Organiser, Lets Roar Loudly! Weekend Symposium & Exhibition, Pioneer Women Memorial Hall, Dunedin.
REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS
2013 Waikato Times, August 15 “Wallace continues to surprise”, Kate Powell.
2012 “Qubit – A Curator’s Response”, Qubit a weekend of Contemporary Performance Art, Anteroom Publishing.
2011 "Clare Fleming at the Blue Oyster", Nick Duval-Smith blog.
2011 "Clare Fleming’s at once we are rootless and harbouring, floating on an inland sea (I am from here)" Hana Aoake.
2010 “Thought Provoking Art. Another World Is Possible,” Bell Murphy, Marrow Magazine.
2009 “Pearls Need True Grit: The Origins and Evolution of the Blue Oyster”, Sarah Wilson, in Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: 10 Years at the Blue Oyster (Anniversary Publication).
2009 Otago Daily Times, May 7 - Collecting Culture, Blue Oyster Gallery.
2008 Otago Daily Times, April 3 - Grow Project, Dunedin Fringe Festival.
The Star, April 3 - Grow Project, Dunedin Fringe Festival.
AWARDS
2014 Elam School of Fine Arts Installation Prize
2010 OUSA Best Installation prize for the OUSA Art Week
2009 Otago Polytechnic Lindsay Crooks Memorial Prize for Life Drawing 2008 OUSA Art Week printmaking prize