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Clara Joyce

Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Clara Joyce employs techniques of stain painting and layering to generate luminous material accumulations. Her work channels subconscious states, creating vaporous visual fields that offer speculative blueprints of the inner world. The paintings exist as an attempt to access realms between the seen and felt, and give form to forces which resist capture. Engaging with the aesthetic unconscious as a magnetic field — a space of both attraction and repulsion — her work captures the tension and release inherent in psychic exploration. Joyce's resin sculptures catch and refract light prismatically, they give a sense of intersecting lenses, symbolising overlapping perspectives and visions.

Clara Joyce

Clara Joyce employs techniques of stain painting and layering to generate luminous material accumulations. Her work channels subconscious states, creating vaporous visual fields that offer speculative blueprints of the inner world. The paintings exist as an attempt to access realms between the seen and felt, and give form to forces which resist capture. Engaging with the aesthetic unconscious as a magnetic field — a space of both attraction and repulsion — her work captures the tension and release inherent in psychic exploration.

  • Clara Joyce (born Boorloo/Perth, lives Naarm/Melbourne) holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from VCA and is currently undertaking a Master of Fine Art at Monash University after earning the top results in her Honours year. Her work has recently been exhibited by Caves at Spring 1883, Syrup Contemporary, Ordinance, Cathedral Cabinet and Cache. Her work will debut with the gallery at the Melbourne Art Fair in February, before a solo exhibition at Daine Singer in late 2026.

  • Education 
    2026  Masters of Fine Arts by Research, Monash University, Caufield, Melbourne
    2023  Honours of Fine Arts, Monash University, Caufield, Melbourne
    2021  Bachelor of Fine Arts, Victorian College of the Arts, Southbank, Melbourne

    Solo exhibitions
    2025  An Applied Anatomy of Spirit, Ordinance, Melbourne
    2024  Breathing and Chaos, Cachè, Melbourne
    2023  Clara Joyce Paintings, Cathedral Cabinet, Melbourne 
    2021  Vitalise Surface Clothing the Screen, Cool Change Contemporary, Perth

    Group exhibitions
    2026 Melbourne Art Fair - Daine Singer, Melbourne
    2025  Spring 1883, Caves, Melbourne
    2025  The World is all Cut Outs Then, Goolagatup Heathcote, Perth
    2025  Boxwood, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
    2025  Fleece, 138 Gallery, Melbourne 
    2024  Yara Away, Mada Gallery, Melbourne
    2024  A Tide is a Long Wave, Syrup Contemporary, Sydney
    2021  Majlis Traveling Fellowship Finalist Exhibition, Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery, Melbourne
    2020  Images for Cognition with Hugo Blomley as NWEB, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
    2019 Let me sit in the corner I’ve just turned zero, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
    2019  ?A platform used for creative expression over individual projection? – D&M Gallery as part of the NWEB summer residency in Warrnambool, Victoria
    2018  _______Garden, VCA Student Gallery, Melbourne
    2017  Donnelly River Residencies, Early Works Gallery, Perth
    2016  25 Under 25, Moore Contemporary Art, Fremantle

    Awards 
    2024  RTP Scholarship Monash Masters 
    2023  Daniel Dorall Prize for Highest Mark in Studio Project, Monash Honours 
    2019  New Colombo Plan Beijing Mobility Scholarship, Victorian College of the Arts

SELECTED WORKS 2026

Selected works

 
 

Clara Joyce, portrait by Karl Halliday