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Bond, 2019
Oil on Birch Panel
90 x 70 cm



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Equilibrium, 2015
Oil on canvas
75 x 65 cm

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Halcyon, 2016
Oil on board
53 x 63 cm



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Transparent, 2014
Oil on Canvas
20 x 25 cm



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Dahlia Roja, 2014
Oil on Board
45 x 45 cm

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Clare Toms



Clare Toms is a visual artist based between Melbourne and Mexico.


Whilst frequently working with photography and installation, she majored in Oil Painting at University which is her main area of practice. Clare shows internationally with Copro Gallery in Los Angeles, and throughout Australia. Other international projects include a recent group show in Berlin, work exhibited as part of a travelling exhibition which traversed the Trans-Siberian Railway (Beijing to Moscow) and also in Mexico with an installation piece being included in a Mexico City Arts Festival.


She has been a finalist in various art prizes and this year was successful in winning the Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize (Lethbridge Gallery - Brisbane Australia). Her work is in private collections across Australia and overseas, most recently being invited to produce work for acquisition into the Luciano Benetton Collection - the Benetton Foundation.


Conceptually Clare’s work explores themes of intangible and physical transience and our interconnectedness with the environment, through the creation of contemporary, secular memento-mori pieces and more recently still-life. Travel, transience and the environment are important themes in her work, and travel plays a significant part in the process of conceptual development.


Clare has worked on various side projects such as an international collaboration, teaching visual arts and working with primary school children as part of an Intercultural art exchange program between Australia and Peru.



Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions


2019

+ Summer Group Exhibition, Metro Gallery, Melbourne Australia.

+ Thinkspace Scope Miami Art Fair Group Show - Thinkspace Gallery Booth F05 @ Scope Art Fair, Miami USA.

+ Solo Exhibition - Evoke - Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.

+ Moniker Art Fair London - Thinkspace Gallery (LA) 12x12 Group Exhibition, London England.

+ LAX / ORD II - Thinkspace Gallery (LA) curated show at Vertical Gallery, Chicago USA.

+ Dark Art 2019 - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.

+ LAX / SFO III - Thinkspace Gallery (LA) curated show at Heron Arts, San Francisco USA.

+ Exploring the New Contemporary Movement - Thinkspace Gallery @ POW!WOW! Hawaii Mural Festival, Hawaii USA.

+ Copro Gallery LA Art Show Group Exhibition - Copro Gallery Booth 143 @ LA Art Show, Los Angeles USA.

+ Summer Collection, Metro Gallery, Melbourne Australia + Artists Showcase, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia. ​ ​


2018

+ Thinkspace Scope Miami Art Fair Group Show - Thinkspace Gallery Booth F05 @ Scope Art Fair, Miami USA.

+ Flow - Australian-based Artists Exhibition - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.

+ Static Medium Curated Group Show - Gallery 1988, Los Angeles USA.

+ BLAB! 13th Anniversary Show - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.

+ Small Works 2018 - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.

+ Finalist - Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Art Prize, Stanthorpe Australia.

+ Dark Art 2018 - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia. ​ 2017

+ Underworld - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.

+ Artist Showcase - Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.

+ Solo Exhibition - 'Perpetual Motion', Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.

+ Loved to Death - Modern Eden, San Francisco USA.

+ Romancing the Skull - Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria Australia.

+ BLAB! 12th Anniversary Show - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.

+ Small Works


2017

Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.


2016

+ Summer Exhibition - Metro Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Memento Mori: Skulls & Bones in Art - Huntington Beach Art Center, USA.

+ Small Works 2016 - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Summer Soiree - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.

+ Art Takes Times Square, New York USA
+ Cube Exhibition - Baker+Hesseldenz Gallery, Arizona USA
+ Solo Exhibition - ‘Halcyon’, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia + Still Life - Reanimating the Inanimate - Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Brisbane


2015

+ Summer Soiree - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
+ PAIN/TING - Open Walls Gallery, Berlin Germany.
+ Exposure Award Digital Exhibition - The Louvre, Paris France.
+ Winner Lethbridge 10 000 Art Prize - Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia

+ 6x6 - Auguste Clown Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Acquisition into Imago Mundi - commissioned by Luciano Benetton,

The Benetton Foundation.
+ Supergraph Graphic Art Fair - Signed & Numbered, Melbourne Australia.


2014

+ Finalist Eutick Memorial Still Life Award - Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour Australia.

+ Finalist Linden Centre for Contemporary Art Postcard Prize, Melbourne Australia

+ Halloween - Auguste Clown Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Finalist Lethbridge 10 000 Art Prize - Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.

+ Supergraph Graphic Art Fair - Signed & Numbered, Melbourne Australia.

+ Two - Just Another Project Space, Melbourne Australia.


2013

+ Guise Solo Show -19Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast Australia. + 20th Anniversary Show - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
+ One - Just Another Project Space, Melbourne.

+ Mighty Small - Brenda May Gallery, Sydney Australia.
+ Brisbane Low Brow -Bleeding Heart Gallery, Brisbane.
+ Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize - Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
+ The Art of Cirque du Soleil - 19Karen Contemporary Artspace


2012

+ Second Skin - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.

+ Fleeting Bonds Solo Show - 19Karen Contemporary Artspace,

Gold Coast Australia.

+ Finalist Lethbridge 10 000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane Australia.

+ Homage to Hollywood - 19Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast Australia.

+ The Art of Spain -19Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast Australia. + Finalist Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Art Prize, Australia.

+ Genesis to Revelations - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
+ Danger Daze Issue 7 - Curated Nick Drake, Brisbane Australia

+ Finalist - Stanthorpe Acquisitive Prize, Australia.


2011

+ Trans-Siberian Arts Centre Travelling Exhibition (Beijing to Moscow). + Black Christmas - Copro Gallery Los Angeles USA.
+ Finalist - Lethbridge 10 000 Art Prize - Lethbridge Gallery.

+ Danger Daze Issue 6 - Curated Nick Drake, Brisbane Australia + Solo Show ‘Journey’ - Glen Innes Art Gallery, Australia.


2010

+ Finalist - Bowness Photographic Prize -Monash Gallery of Art.

+ Finalist - Waterhouse Prize International Natural History Art Prize,

South Australian Museum, Adelaide Australia.


2009

+ <1M - Flipbook Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ Segundo Aniversario - 5DMayo Experimental, QRO Mexico

+ CollecART - Museo Juguete Antiguo México, Mexico City.

+ Introducing II - Brenda May Gallery, Danks St, Sydney.


2008

+ Sneaker Culture - Flipbook Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ BARI Brisbane Artist Run Initiative – KILN Gallery, Brisbane. + We Make Good Pets - Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane, Australia + Memento Mori - Brenda May Gallery, Danks St, Sydney.

+ Behind Glass - KILN Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ Tingalpa – Project Gallery QCA, Brisbane, Australia.
+ Still Life - Brenda May Gallery, Danks St, Sydney, Australia.

+ Brisscapes - Flipbook Gallery, Brisbane Australia


2007

+ Exit Strategy – Queensland College of Art Brisbane, Australia. + Glen Archies Portrait Prize - Glen Innes Gallery, Australia.

+ One Night Only - Project Gallery QCA, Brisbane, Australia.

+ Moving Art - New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale.




Awards and Prizes


2015 Winner - Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.


2014 Finalist - Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour, Australia.


2014 Finalist - Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Postcard Prize, Melbourne.


2014 Finalist - Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.


2013 Finalist - Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.


2012 Highly Commended Prize - Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, Stanthorpe Australia


2012 Finalist - Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia


2011 Finalist - Lethbridge Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.


2010 Finalist - Bowness Photographic Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria


2010 Finalist - Waterhouse Prize, International Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia.


2010 Finalist - Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Prize, Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, Stanthorpe Australia.


2009 Portrait Prize - GI Gallery Exhibition, Australia.


2008 Portrait Prize - GI Gallery Exhibition, Australia.


2007 Ord Minnett Prize - best body of work across all disciplines in the Bachelor of Fine Art, Griffith University.


2007 Glen Archies Portrait Prize - Glen Innes Gallery, Australia.

2006 Academic Achievement Award - Griffith University, Australia


2001 ArtExpress - Touring Art award for HSC Students, NSW Australia



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