Clare Belfrage
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Clare Belfrage has maintained a distinguished practice for over thirty years. Her detailed and complex glass drawings on blown glass forms reflect a level of artistic innovation and mastery of her craft that makes her one of Australia’s most renowned artists in this medium. Inspired by nature and its various rhythms and energies, Clare’s unique sculptural objects express her fine attention to detail and a deep interest in the minutiae of the natural world.

Clare Belfrage’s glass vessels explore the pulse and flow of forces that shape the natural world as well as the living patterns of the everyday. Charged, vibrant, equanimous, they traverse the pleasure and awe of elements in nature, drawing on the patterns and rhythms and what lies in their details. Clare has been an influential member of the artists’ community globally through exhibitions, awards, demonstrations and teaching.

“As an artist, my point of view is often looking from close up. The big feeling that ‘small’ gives me is intimate and powerful. The industry in nature, its rhythm and energy, dramatic and delicate still holds my fascination as does the language and processes of glass.”