Clare Rae

Thanks to @rmitgalleries for this video snippet! Click the link in my bio for the full interview. ・・・ “Through my photographic performances I investigate specific gestures and movements undertaken within public and private spaces, considering the impacts on the body by educational and institutional authority” Clare Rae Clare Rae has been engaged with RMIT as both a photography student and now lecturer. The photographic process of recording the body at the University depicts her physical and experiential memory of these sites, which is often absurd or uncomfortable. To hear more from Clare about her practice, follow the link in our bio or see her series as part of 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘪𝘵𝘭𝘦 at RMIT Gallery until 27 July. @clarerae @rmitartcollection #RMITCulture #RMITArtCollection #RMITGalleries #RMITGallery #WorkingTitle #StudioPractice #AustralianArt

Currently showing: ‘Correspondences’ group exhibition featuring @clarerae @isabella_capezio @heidi_hole @k_koenning @jesse_buoy @piajohnsonphotography @christinemcfetridge @rebecca.najdowski “We might turn to forms of correspondence like photography, letter writing, poetry, or art, when we reach for dialogue and find it to be broken. When speech is otherwise colonised. When we feel a need to be witnessed. Correspondences are acts of relation that reach outside the self and converse from within. They can be exciting because they explore the unfamiliar and attempt to give shape to the ephemeral. Writer Edwina Preston describes letter writing as an art form that comes from “inside the moment. Which is to say, it emerges from a place unspoken where we might also “discover our own foreignness”? Preston traces letter writing as a literary artform historically available to womxn — often composed in improvised ways among the debris of domestic duties, or in spurts of stolen time behind closed doors.“ — excerpt from the essay ‘Working from the Middle’ by Kelly Hussey-Smith which accompanies the exhibition. #HillvaleGallery

Please join us this Saturday 16th May at 2pm for a panel discussion with artists from the exhibition Correspondences @hillvalegallery We’ll discuss the threads connecting each work; the reciprocal exchange between photographer and subject, people and place. To begin the discussion Christine McFetridge will perform a live reading of her essay, Thresholds. This event is free and requires no booking. Be sure to check out the Brunswick Design District website to see all the other creative spaces offering a glimpse behind closed doors during Melbourne Design Week. #BDD #BrunswickDesignDistrict

Beneath a brilliant full moon on Friday evening we celebrated the opening of ‘Correspondences’! In this new group exhibition, photography is utilised as the primary mode of expression precisely for its complicated entanglement with the colonial history of landscape photography. Subverting dominant visual representations of bodies; in this case variously female, queer, non-male and non-white, the exhibition proposes an interconnected and reciprocal exchange between body and place, photographer and subject. Thanks to everyone who came along and to our 8 incredible artists who came together to create such a thought-provoking and dynamic exhibition. Special thanks to @clarerae who proposed this concept to us last year during out Open Call and lead this group of artists during development and install. And thanks to @kellyhusseysmith for her incredible essay in response to the exhibition which is featured in the riso-printed exhibition accompaniment. ‘Correspondences’ runs until May 31st! Artists: @christinemcfetridge @clarerae @isabella_capezio @jesse_buoy @heidi_hole @k_koenning @piajohnsonphotography @rebecca.najdowski #HillvaleGallery #Correspondences 📷 @sarahpannell

The gallery is open today from 11-3! Come by and check out our new group exhibition 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 which opened on Friday evening. The exhibition continues for the rest of the month until 31 May. Artwork featured: Clare Rae, Three Attempts After Joy, #5 Clare Rae (@clarerae ) is an artist and educator from Naarm/Melbourne. In her photographic practice Clare explores gesture, space and architecture to examine structures of power and their impacts on the body. She has been making and exhibiting artwork in Australia and abroad for over 15 years. In 2020 Clare began a PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. She completed a Master of Arts by research in 2014 at Monash University, and received first class Honours in Fine Art in 2009 at RMIT University. Her work is held in public and private collections nationally, including Artbank, The National Gallery of Victoria, Monash University, RMIT University. Clare is a founding member of LAST Collective. @christinemcfetridge @clarerae @isabella_capezio @jesse_buoy @heidi_hole @k_koenning @piajohnsonphotography @rebecca.najdowski #HillvaleGallery #Correspondences

Correspondences opens tomorrow evening at @hillvalegallery . This exhibition started with a desire to connect with my colleagues at @rmitphoto and share space, with our works in dialogue. Over the past few days I’ve had the pleasure of spending time with this extraordinary group of people, with close looking and discussion unfolding as we walked around the gallery placing artworks intuitively. It’s my favourite way to hang an exhibition and it has generated moments and connections I didn’t anticipate. Outside can be a scary and sad time, but in here we are talking to each other with care and connection. Friday 1st May 6-8pm, @hillvalegallery 43-45 Edward Street Brunswick, all welcome. ✨

Tomorrow evening we will celebrate the opening of our 2026 group exhibition titled 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 which brings together 8 lens-based artists informed by eco-feminist critique which proposes a relational and intersectional ethic of care for ecologies in our current climate crisis. Artists featured: Jesse Boylan, Isabella Capezio, Jody Haines, Pia Johnson, Katrin Koenning, Christine McFetridge, Rebecca Najdowski and Clare Rae. Join us for the opening reception: 6-8pm, Friday 1 May, 2026 We will be providing complimentary drinks for the first hour from 6-7pm thanks to our friends at @minimumwines & @philterbrewing Exhibition runs until Sunday 31 May, 2026 Artwork 1: Isabella Capezio, common suns #1, 2026 Artwork 2: Pia Johnson, Looking for Maisy #6, 2025 Isabella Capezio (@isabella_capezio ) is an artist and lecturer in photography living and working on stolen Wurrundjeri Woi Wurrung land. Isabella’s work and research explore ideas of failure, queerness, and nature and how alternative and expanded forms of photography can unsettle existing colonising forms of representation. Isabella is interested in experimental, process driven and site-specific engagements with environments and their histories to address the climate crisis, extraction and colonial logics. Pia Johnson (@piajohnsonphotography ) is a photographer and visual artist, whose practice emerged out of a concern with issues of cultural identity and difference, stemming from her mixed background of Chinese and Italian-Australian descent. These themes have underpinned her interest in memory, cultural spaces and performance –where she often features within her works – to investigate notions of transcultural identity, belonging and otherness through photography, moving image and installation. @christinemcfetridge @clarerae @isabella_capezio @jesse_buoy @heidi_hole @k_koenning @piajohnsonphotography @rebecca.najdowski #HillvaleGallery #Correspondences

Opening this week: 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠, Hillvale Gallery’s 2026 group exhibition which brings together 8 artists informed by eco-feminist critique: Jesse Boylan, Isabella Capezio, Jody Haines, Pia Johnson, Katrin Koenning, Christine McFetridge, Rebecca Najdowski and Clare Rae. Join us for the opening reception: 6-8pm, Friday 1 May, 2026 Exhibition runs until Sunday 31 May, 2026 Artwork: Jody Haines, Younger and older (dbl exposure), 2025 Jody Haines (Palawa) is a contemporary artist based in Naarm. Her unique practice blends social practice, photo-media (photography/video/film), and public art, creating large-scale public activations that include projections, paste-ups, and street-wide photographic installations. Rooted in Indigenous feminist K/new/Known materialism, Jody’s work explores themes of identity, representation, and the female gaze. @christinemcfetridge @clarerae @isabella_capezio @jesse_buoy @heidi_hole @k_koenning @piajohnsonphotography @rebecca.najdowski #HillvaleGallery #Correspondences

UPCOMING: Please join us for the official launch of our 2026 group exhibition 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 which proposes a photographic dialogical exchange between bodies and land, informed by eco-feminist critique with works by Jesse Boylan, Isabella Capezio, Jody Haines, Pia Johnson, Katrin Koenning, Christine McFetridge, Rebecca Najdowski and Clare Rae. Photography is utilised by the group precisely for its complicated entanglement with the colonial history of landscape photography. Opening: 6-8pm, Friday 1 May, 2026 Exhibition runs until Sunday 31 May, 2026 Through the work of eight lens-based artists working in a settler/colonial context on unceded land each engage with ideas of place and space. 𝐶𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑠 proposes a relational and intersectional ethic of care for ecologies in our current climate crisis. In the exhibition photography is utilised as the primary mode of expression precisely for its complicated entanglement with the colonial history of landscape photography. Subverting dominant visual representations of bodies; in this case variously female, queer, non-male and non-white, the exhibition proposes an interconnected and reciprocal exchange between body and place, photographer and subject. Featuring: Christine McFetridge @christinemcfetridge Clare Rae @clarerae Isabella Capezio @isabella_capezio Jesse Boylan @jesse_buoy Jodie Haines @heidi_hole Katrin Koenning @k_koenning Pia Johnson @piajohnsonphotography Rebecca Najdowski @rebecca.najdowski Artwork featured: Rebecca Najdowski, detail from Another Nature (Warm Data) 2026 #HillvaleGallery #correspondences

Last days of my exhibition Untitled Actions (University) @vcaartspace Thanks to all who visited, for the chats, hugs and goodwill! 💕 Open tomorrow Friday 27th Feb 12-5pm @vca_research

Untitled Actions (University), my final PhD exhibition is open at @vcaartspace ✨ 17-27 February 2026 Tuesday - Saturday 12-5pm

PhD show install underway💪💙 Thank you dearest @katielee_art for expertise hands and eyes today ✨ The gallery is open from 12pm Tuesday, opening event 5-7pm this Thursday 19th Feb. All welcome. @vca_research @vcaartspace