Claire Bridge is a finalist in the 2024 Darebin Art Prize.

The Darebin Art Prize is an acquisitive prize of $10,000 awarded to the winner.

A People's Choice Prize of $1000 is also awarded and depends on your votes.

Finalists Exhibition
10 Jan 24 - 23 Mar 24
Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre
7 Prospect Hill Dr, Bundoora 3083

image: Claire Bridge, We must risk new shapes, 2023, hand-built, glazed stoneware ceramic, 37.8cm x 31cm x 26.5cm, showing now in the Darebin Art Prize 2024

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We must risk new shapes draws its title from Sophie Strand’s eponymous essay and offers a speculative new god for these times of ecological crisis and upheaval.

The sculpture’s silhouette suggests a seated buddha, referencing the dissolution of a siloed self. The work challenges notions of individualism and the cultural and ecological crises of anthropocentric capitalism.

We must risk new shapes decenters the human, proposing a polyamorous communion of oceanic beings and hybrid lichenised fusions. The three segments of the base - body and head - come together in a communal multifaceted whole. It presents its own complex, diverse, and interconnected ecosystem. We must risk new shapes imagines an alternative collaborative vision for our shared futures. ~ Claire Bridge