Claire Grant
Claire Grant combines landscapes and personal experiences with alternative photography, working primarily in cyanotype and often incorporating encaustic wax into delicate prints on paper or textiles. Using light as her medium, she works with the sun, natural botanical elements, and water to form environmental imprints of time and place.
Her practice extends the historic printing style typical of cyanotype into abstraction and experimentation. Landscapes are suggested through simplified horizon lines and hints of floral forms, or printed on fragile paper ephemera.
Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, she studied Photography at the University of Canterbury and Museum Studies at the University of Queensland. Recent exhibitions include: solo show In-Flight at Vacant Assembly (2021); finalist in the Milburn Art Prize for Landscape (2021) and Banyule Award for Art on Paper (2021); group shows at Brisbane Powerhouse, KEPK Space, Side Gallery and Byron School of Arts. Grant currently lives in Meanjin (Brisbane), Queensland.