Claudia Bloxsome

Tonight’s the night! So happy to be presenting a new body of work at @lost_profile_gallery opening today at 6pm, running through to March 29th. Please join us at 42 Hope St Brunswick, have a drink and enjoy this beautiful weather surrounded by handwoven sculpture, vintage treasures and exquisitely designed Australian lighting. Featured Piece- Mother’s Love 2026 Vintage silk, repurposed bamboo, repurposed grasses 805mmW x 440mmD x 1080mmH Drinks generously sponsored by @fourpillarsgin and @hawkersbeer #cloudmaystudio #claudiabloxsome #cloudmay #lostprofilegallery #lostprofilestudio

‘Spirit Living in Heaven’ Some pieces demand a different kind of patience. Not only did weaving this cloth take longer than I anticipated, but the real challenge was the form. It lived in my studio for four months—a constant presence I lived alongside, staring at it during meals or while cleaning and working on other pieces. The cloth even came with me to an artist retreat at @camillo_house on the Mornington Peninsula. I moulded, unmade, and restrung it every week. There was a point where it felt like it might never resolve, and I was even advised that perhaps it was time to let this one go. Then, this shape finally emerged. All those layers of work feel like a part of the piece now. It feels ancestral, like a wise being or an ancient mask. People see different things in the layers—a rib cage or a decomposing leaf—but for me, it is all in the furling of the palm fibre and the feeling of breath. That is simply the way my work seems to be. Some pieces I can sculpt almost instantaneously, as if I barely touched them, while others require a long journey before they are ready to emerge. Currently on view at @lost_profile_gallery in Brunswick Melbourne #cloudmaystudio #textileartist #claudiabloxsome #lostprofilegallery #australianweaver

‘A Physical Place to Keep’ The first piece to emerge for the show and a quiet turning point in my work. The resolution of its form brings a deep sense of satisfaction and an excitement to explore its potential further. It reminds me of an abandoned cocoon in nature. There is a delicate dance happening around the central brass axis, a suspension that feels as though it is caught on a tree branch. The transparency and its gentle, slow movement invite you to move around it, to catch different perspectives and find new ways to understand its structure. Crafted from vintage linen, palm fibre, cotton and brass. Currently holding space at @lost_profile_gallery open this weekend #cloudmaystudio #claudiabloxsome #lostprofilegallery #textileartist #melbourneartist

Tender Dialogues has its opening reception today from 2pm-4pm at Hali Rugs in Richmond. @halirugs Weaving these sculptural pieces has been such a quiet, solitary process of exploring internal dialogues, so it feels a bit surreal and really special to finally bring them out of the studio to share. If you are exploring Melbourne Design Week this afternoon, please come by the showroom, say hello, and have a look #ngv #cloudmaystudio #cloudmay #claudiabloxsome #melbournedesignweek

Melbourne Design Week has commenced and I am finally sharing ‘My heart sang. And then sank’. This work is an exploration of light and weight, conceived during an artist residency at @camillo_house on the Mornington Peninsula. I wanted to translate the specific, shifting quality of ocean light into a physical plane. By using an ombré weaving technique to graduate gold washi thread through a body of linen and foraged coastal spear grass, the textile becomes an active surface. It responds to the viewer’s movement, catching the light and twinkling in a way that feels fluid rather than static. At the base, the fabric transitions into a soft accordion gathering that suggests a state of blooming or organic flora. This volume is defined by a handmade central axis of gold rope, spun from bronze wire thread and lurex. The entire form is governed by a heavy brass object on the floor. It acts as a tether, providing a sense of gravity to a structure that looks as though it might otherwise drift away. You can see this piece throughout the week as part of ‘Tender Dialogues’ at @halirugs in Richmond, curated by @amy.voterakis #cloudmay #cloudmaystudio #claudiabloxsome #melbournedesignweek #ngv

WORKSHOP | Sculptural Weaving with Claudia Bloxsome Discover a fresh approach to textile making in this hands-on workshop that pushes the boundaries of weaving. Using yarn, wire, and locally foraged fibres, you’ll learn how to create dynamic, three-dimensional sculptural forms. Claudia Bloxsome is a contemporary fibre artist whose practice explores the transformation of woven textiles into sculptural forms, drawing on themes of time, care, and materiality. Claudia will show you how to build self-supporting, hollow, and layered structures and you’ll explore new ways of thinking about fibre, form, and structure. Open to beginners and experienced makers alike, this workshop is designed to inspire new ways of thinking and making through hands-on exploration. Sculptural Weaving with Claudia Bloxsome 🗓️ Saturday 13 June 🕚 1 - 4 pm 🎟️ Adult $165 | ATW Friends / Concession $150 🔗 Spots are limited, book now via link in bio — Pictured: 1. Claudia Bloxsome, ‘Mother Love’, 2026, courtesy of the artist. 2. Portrait of Claudia Bloxsome by @dylan.guy | 3. Studio Detail, courtesy of the artist. @cloudmaystudio

Yesterday was a collective effort with @amy.voterakis and @georgiaboseley___art to bring the room together at @halirugs . We are nearing readiness for Thursday’s opening as part of Design Week and it has been a process of navigating how these works finally settle into their environment. This piece specifically became a negotiation with the materials as they left the loom. I’ve focused on the floating wefts—bundles of fine linen that hover over the surface of the quietly detailed base of the weaving. There is a kinetic quality to the ramie fibres and the gold washi thread; they catch the light in a way that suggests a continual, slow movement as you navigate the space. It’s a work that asks for physical presence, revealing different densities as you move around it. The hand-made rope drapes over the surface to create a necessary tension, eventually succumbing to its own internal logic. By allowing the material to find its own weight and pull, it defines the negative space underneath. It’s a study of that fragile narrative where the work must surrender to gravity to find its resolution, stretching and settling into a form that only reveals itself once it is allowed to hang. Tender Dialogues Melbourne Design Week 2026 Location: Hali Rugs Showroom 492 Church St, Richmond VIC 3121 Opens Thursday 21 May Opening reception Saturday 16th from 2pm-4pm Exhibition Dates 14 May – 24 May 2026 #ngv #melbournedesignweek2026 #cloudmay #cloudmaystudio #claudiabloxsome

Melbourne Design Week is coming up and I’m chuffed to be included in two exhibitions. Tender Dialogues will be shown at @halirugs with @amy.voterakis and @georgiaboseley___art in Richmond running from 13th-26th May with opening reception on Saturday 16th from 2-4pm Being Sensitive is be shown at @studio.kennon with @russhmagazine on the top floor of the Harry Seidler building in the CBD on Thursday 21st May. *RSVP essential I love that the two exhibition titles are Tender Dialogues and Being Sensitive. I strongly identify with both sentiments. 🙃 please join us! Full program runs from 14-24th May with events throughout the city and regional areas @ngvmelbourne @creative_vic #NGV #melbournedesignweek #creativevic #creativestate #cloudmaystudio

Amy Voterakis, in collaboration with HALI Rugs, presents Tender Dialogues, an exhibition of new works by Melbourne/Naarm-based textile artists Claudia Bloxsome and Georgia Boseley. Created for installation in the HALI showroom, the exhibition presents major new fibre works within a context that appreciates the cultural and material value of textile-based art forms. Historically positioned as a domestic or decorative craft, weaving has often been undervalued in relation to other art forms. Tender Dialogues presents fibre as expansive, considered and resolutely contemporary through two distinct yet complementary practices. Bloxsome’s diaphanous, loom-woven panels hang in the window, visible from the street. Inside, a closer physical and spatial encounter unfolds, with Bloxsome’s panels acting as a backdrop to Boseley’s bold vessels combining clay and woven flax. @halirugs @amy.voterakis @georgiaboseley___art @ngvmelbourne #melbournedesignweek #NGV #cloudmay #cloudmaystudio #claudiabloxsome

Claudia's piece 'By the River' as well as over a hundred more pieces by all manner of talented Australian Artists are only available in the Arts Auction, and bidding closes 8pm Wednesday! The link is in our bio so you can hop on pronto!

There is a certain quietude in verticality. The Spirit of the Author was created as a study in honouring the transition between stories. By deconstructing the traditional grid of warp and weft, I wanted to find a form that felt less like an object and more like an ode—a sacred vessel for movement and time. The copper wire plays against the raw silk and wool, creating a surface that shifts as you move around it. It is an exploration of how light catches on a thread and how shadow settles into texture. I am interested in that depth of colour that feels almost ancient, reminiscent of religious artefacts that have been held and kept for generations. The Spirit of the Author, 2024, wool, raw silk, copper, 1370mmh x 300mmw Available through @craftvictoria #cloudmaystudio #cloudmay #claudiabloxsome #craftvictoria #australianartist

My collection of work for the exhibition ‘Tender Dialogues’ curated by @amy.voterakis for Melbourne Design Week is finally beginning to emerge. Over the last few weekends, I have been glued to the loom, but those extended sessions have allowed me to flesh out a vision and begin to see my end goal. I have been integrating several variations of vintage yarn from Kyoto weaving houses. These materials possess a particular character that makes me feel like a temporary custodian of their quality. I am trying to work with a level of reverence, letting the inherent properties of the fibres guide the tension and texture of each piece. It is a process of careful observation—watching how the light interacts with the weave and ensuring the material isn’t lost in the structure. After weeks of preparation, seeing these elements finally become integrated into woven work is so exciting. I’ll be showing alongside @georgiaboseley___art I can’t wait to see what stories our work will tell when they come together at @halirugs at #melbournedesignweek #NGV @ngvmelbourne #cloudmay #cloudmaystudio #claudiabloxsome