Juliette Claire is a multisensory mixed-media artist based in Naarm, practicing on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri. She is completing an Honours in Fine Art (RMIT University), and holds Bachelor of Fine Art Sculpture (RMIT) and an Advanced Diploma of Object and Jewellery Design (Melbourne Polytechnic). Utilising multisensory mixed-media installation and performance her works are spatial, durational and engage the senses.
My work has grown out of the urgency I feel to address personal and ecological mourning and grief in the era of climate change, otherwise known as the Capitalocene. This is also the age of the Eremocene, as the American biologist, ecologist and naturalist E. O Wilson has argued, a time of loneliness where humans are witnessing the collapse and disappearance of the diversity of life on earth. Utilising multisensory mixed-media installations and performance my work presents audiences with a body of ephemeral and often biodegradable immersive installations methodologically shaped by durational ‘repetitive acts’ such as growing flora, harvesting flowers for ink, stringing hundreds of individual flowers to make rope, and walking over plant material to make marks. This body of work aims to sit with the ‘trouble’ of personal and ecological loss, an inherently anti-capitalist and anti-productionist act, to imagine possible material and life-world futures that challenge extractive futures and the nature-culture divide.
Untitled (passage), 2024, mixed-media performance.
Dear Andrew, 2024, mixed-media performance.
Untitled (Oxalis), 2024, mixed-media.
I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations as the Traditional custodians of the land I live and work on, whose land was never ceded, was and always will be Aboriginal land. I pay my respects to elders past and present. I would like to acknowledge the country I grew up on – Baligin, the lands of the Gumbaynggirr people and the lands of the northern and southern people of the Bundjalung Nation.
Working within an ecological context on unceded lands, it is important to acknowledge that the climate crisis is fueled by global colonial projects and extractivist relationships and that this is ongoing.