Clare Rae engages photography, stop motion animation and performance to navigate and defy the limitations of the everyday environments she inhabits. Her works explore tension, portraying situations that offer alternative spatial and psychological interactions between the artist and the possibilities that are held in her surrounds. Based in Melbourne, Rae has been involved in group exhibitions at Glen Eira City Council Gallery, West Space, Light Projects and the National Gallery of Victoria amongst many others. Her recent solo exhibitions Light Weight at Beam Contemporary (2011) and Climbing the Walls and Other Actions (2009) at the Centre for Contemporary Photography have attracted critical acclaim from reviewers and audiences alike. In 2009, Rae was the recipient of the prestigious CCP/Colour Factory Award and in 2011 was awarded a New Work Grant by the Australia Council for the Arts. Recently, Rae received an Honourable Mention in the 2010 Bowness Photography Prize and was a finalist in 2012. Most recently, in 2013, she completed a commissioned video work for Metricon Stadium, Queensland.
