Karri Clarke is an emerging Gippsland based artist, living and working on the lands of Gurnaikurnai people. She operates in and around the Kulin nation country of Melbourne/Naarm where she will graduate from RMIT University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Sculpture in 2023.

Karri has a multidisciplinary spatial practice that extends into performance art, ceramics, jewellery, instillation, two-dimensional work, sculpture and public art. Her work aims to facilitate the indulgence and intensity of the immediate visual and felt senses that locate people into their present through a connection to the natural world.

Karri is influenced by our global climate emergency and her work reflects humanity’s need for a connection to earth, to ourselves and to each other. These inspirations are explored through themes of: lived phenomenological perceptions, positions of liminality, and affective experiences and reactions.
Karri’s artistic processes depart from an inherent affinity for creating representational work that resembles natural forms and into place of experimentation and collaboration with the natural world where more abstracted forms are informed from deliberate material choices. Her relationship with materiality stems from a desire for a sustainable world, so natural, organic, raw, recycled and renewable materials feature frequently in her work.

Karri is a current member of the Baw Baw Arts Alliance.

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