Claire McCluskey
Claire McCluskey has a multidisciplinary practice, incorporating sculpture, image-making and large-scale, intricate installation. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from TU Dublin in 2012, and received an MFA Digital Art from NCAD in 2019, on a scholarship funded by the HSE. She is the recipient of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre’s 2022 Debi O’Hehir Bursary, the D-Light Studios 2019-20 Residency Award and was a crew member with the eXXpedition Round The World voyage researching ocean plastic pollution in 2020.
Recent commissions include a Percent for Art project for the Central Mental Hospital and production of bespoke awards for the CleanEquity 2021 conference in Monaco. Claire is based between Monaghan and Dublin where she also works part time as a lecturer and technician at NCAD.
My practice is multidisciplinary in nature, spanning two and three dimensional processes. My approach is project-based and research-led, but circles around enduring concerns that focus on the co-creative negotiations between the self and the external world. Fulfilling a diagrammatic role in these explorations, I make works that visualise or interpret the structure of these connections; the in-between spaces of interaction and the emergent topographies. Weaving together different forms of knowledge surrounding the context of the chosen project, I harness the site of the particular to explore the universal.
