Clare McFarlane was born in the small country town of Kojonup, but has lived on Perth since 1990. Clare completed a Masters and an Honours Degree in Fine Art from Curtin University, where she also completed a Graduate Diploma in Cultural Heritage. Much of her work contemplates the natural world, especially the local environment, our relationship to it and the way we express ourselves through our interpretation of it. She has used patterns as the image foundation and a metaphor for our culture and its conventions and its need for order and understanding. Clare\u2019s recent work focuses on the rural environment and farmland on which she grew up.<\/p>\n
She has been exhibiting for over twenty years having held many solo exhibitions in Perth and Melbourne and participated in multiple group shows. She has also completed a number of public art works and murals for various agencies including the State Government, Form, the City of Perth and the City of Subiaco. Her work can be found in numerous collections including the Cruthers Collection at UWA, Janet Holmes \u00e0 Court Collection, Edith Cowan University Collection, Curtin University, Artbank, City of Perth, City of Bayswater, City of Wanneroo, Perth Children\u2019s Hospital, as well as many private collections.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>