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Claire Anna Watson
Endocardium
Join Claire Anna Watson on an exploration of contemporary culture's relationship to foodstuffs and the impact of scientific interventions on the natural world. In her work, Endocardium, the cabbage, a mundane and uninteresting vegetable, holds the artist’s fascination as a sculptural object. Unveiling its gnarled and freakish core, through a systematic unwrapping, Watson exposes this most banal of vegetables to know it more intimately.
Claire Anna Watson is a Melbourne based artist, curator, and arts writer. She creates installations, photography and video-based artwork, and has devised public art projects for the shores of the Black Sea in Turkey, a forest in Finland, the rural plains of Portugal and the snowfields of Australia. She has presented her works nationally and internationally and has been awarded international residencies that have culminated in major public art works. Watson has held several solo exhibitions including at Brenda May Gallery in 2015, Gippsland Art Gallery and BLINDSIDE in 2011 and Counihan Gallery in 2008. Her video and sculptural works have been curated into numerous group exhibitions, including Cornucopia at Shepparton Art Museum, Sydney Contemporary, the NETS Victoria exhibition Made to Last the tour of which included McClelland Gallery and QUT Art Museum, and FEAST: Pleasure + Hunger + Ritual at Lexington Art League, USA. Watson holds a Master of Fine Art from Monash University and a Graduate Certificate in Public Art from RMIT University.
Anna Pappas Gallery
