Artist Statement

Linda Clark is an installation and multimedia artist, exhibiting nationally and internationally. Clark’s practice-led research utilises an interdisciplinary approach that is initiated through her practice, incorporating multifaceted interactions of artmaking in hybrid forms including conceptual art, video, installation and sculpture. In conjunction with these art forms, her work is also informed by interpersonal and collaborative relationships, alongside research which explores areas such as identity, maternity and feminism.  

bio

Linda Clark is an installation and sculpture artist exhibiting nationally and internationally. Her work has been included in key exhibitions such as Antipods: Magical Creatures with Backward Feet at University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Down the Rabbit Hole at the Queensland College of Art. Clark has recently engaged in both local and international curatorial projects such as Mother at USQ Artworx, and the research project Antipods: Magical Creatures with Backward Feet with University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Building on practice based research outcomes achieved within the Bachelor of Creative Arts Honours, Clark completed a practice based visual art research project within the Doctor of Creative Arts at the University of Southern Queensland. She is currently a lecturer in Sculpture at the University of Southern Queensland.

  • 2024 | Countermeasures Exhibition, Ipswich Community Gallery, Ipswich, Australia.

    2023 | Forced Perspective Exhibition, Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts, Townsville, Australia.

    2023 | Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award Salon des Refuses, Online Exhibition.

    2023 | Becoming Exhibition, Queensland College of Art Webb Gallery, Griffith University, Brisbane.
    2022 | Rise Alumni Exhibition, UniSQ Art Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.

    2022 | Undercurrent Research Exhibition, UniSQ Art Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.

    2022 | Threshold Songs, UniSQ Art Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.

    2021 | New Stories, USQ Art Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.

    2021 / deLight Project SPARK Ipswich, Ipswich, Queensland.

    2019 / Bearing Witness: Absence Exhibition  Outerspace ARI, Brisbane, Queensland

    2019 / Tethered: Embodying the Mother-Artist Model | Doctor of Creative Arts Examination Exhibition | USQ Art Gallery, Toowoomba
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    2018 / Dark Rituals: Magical Relics From the Little Art Spell Book | University of Sunshine Coast Gallery, Academy Gallery, Inveresk, Launceston & University of Saskatchewan Gallery | Project Funding - Australia Council for the Arts

    2017 / Motion Capture Film Festival Finalist Showcase

    2017 / Contemporary Art Awards Finalist Online Exhibition

    2017 / Outside In | St Vincent’s Hospital Gallery, Brisbane.
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    2016 / Subversive Spaces 
    Artsworx, USQ Toowoomba

    2016 / Queensland Regional Art Awards
    Travelling to regional Queensland and the Judith Wright Centre, Brisbane.

    2015 / Magical Creatures with Backward Feet
    University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

    2015 / Subversive Spaces
    The Hold Artspace & QCA, Brisbane, Australia

    2015 / Intertwined
    ANU School of Art, Canberra, Australia

    2015 / Mother 
    Artsworx Gallery, USQ Toowoomba.

    2014 / Superfluity
    Artsworx Gallery, USQ Toowoomba

    2014 / Waterways Public Art Project
    Toowoomba, Queensland

    2013 / Down the Rabbit Hole
    Queensland College of Art, Brisbane and University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba.

    2012 / Promise Program 2012
    Metro Arts, Edward Street, Brisbane.

    2011 / Graduart Exhibition
    University of Southern Queensland and Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery

    2011 / Critical Craftings, Unleashed Emerging Artist Exhibition
    Artisan Gallery, Brisbane, Queensland

    2011 / 2010 / USQ Guild Exhibition
    University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

    2010 / Curious Spaces Exhibition
    John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery, Dogwood Crossing, Miles, Queensland.

Reviews and essays

Mirror, Mirror, Mother. Make it Clear that I am Other by Louise Martin-Chew, Bearing Witness: Absence Exhibition Essay for Outerspace ARI, September, 2019.

Down the Rabbit Hole: reorienting contemporary art practice by Beth Jackson, in Art Monthly, Vol. 266, Summer Issue 2013/2014.

Critical Essay by  Raymonda Rajkowski for Promise Program 2012 Catalogue.

hybrid practice 2014

Bone Woman .... When All is Gone Multimedia and Sculptural Installation for the Dance Performance Bone Woman.....When All is Gone at the Empire Theatre, Toowoomba, Qld.

awards

2023 | HASS Teaching Excellence Award | UniSQ

2017 / Contemporary Art Awards Finalist

2016 / Queensland Regional Art Award Gray Puksand Digital Award 
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2015 / USQ University Medal

2011 / USQ Faculty of Arts, Rosemary Lakerink Award for Outstanding Studio Practice.