Claire Field is a curator and artist living and working on Gadigal country, Sydney, Australia.

Claire’s curatorial methodology has a strong focus on developing inclusive contemporary art experiences that often involve collaboration, community engagement, and technology. Claire has held curatorial, collection management, and consultancy positions for the Department of Education NSW, City of Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery, Brett Whiteley Studio Art Gallery of New South Wales, Verge Gallery and Red Wall Gallery.

From 2020 Claire has been working at Curatorial+Co. in Sydney Australia, curating the large-scale corporate and public art projects.

In 2018/19, Claire curated over 400 artworks from the Department of Education (DoE) NSW Wilkins Collection into multiple DoE office buildings throughout Sydney.

Claire co-curated Site of Passage with Tian Zhang at Customs House Circular Quay, Sydney, in 2018, exploring personal journeys, experiences, and concepts of identity and belonging. An audience of over 500,000 people viewed Site of Passage throughout its duration.

Claire co-founded the socially engaged participatory art project FavourEconomy, with Bronwyn Treacy and Alexandra Pedley and later co-led with Stella Chen and MX Tonié Field. FavourEconomy was as an online archiven of audio recordings shared by women for the benefit of other women working in the arts. FavourEconomy was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney for International Women’s Day in 2020 and the MCA Art Bar curated by Lara Merrett in 2019.

In 2018 Claire presented at the Women* Art and Feminism symposium curated by Prof. Anne Marsh, alongside the 2018 co-leaders of the FavourEconomy project MX Tonié Field and Stella Chen, having taken part in the Doing Feminism/Sharing the world residency program at Norma Redpath House in Melbourne 2017.

With a multidisciplinary visual arts practice spanning installation, sculpture, painting, printmaking, video, performance, and collaboration. Claire’s work is primarily concerned with communication, technology, semiotics, and feminist methodologies. Claire has exhibited as part of the Care: Feminism, Art and Ethics in Neo-liberal Times research project, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne; VVitchVVaVVe Post Digital Aesthetics Symposium, hosted by RMIT University at Siteworks, Melbourne, Salamanca Art Centre Hobart, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hobart.

Claire holds a Master of Art and Curatorship from Sydney University (2015) and a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Tasmania (2001), majoring in Sculpture and Digital Media. In 2001 Claire was awarded the University of Tasmania International Fine Art Scholarship to study abroad at the University of Hawaii Mānoa. Claire was placed on the Dean’s Roll of Excellence in 2000 and 2001.