Claire Rosslyn Wilson is an interdisciplinary artist, poet and researcher based in Barcelona.
Through her creative practice and research, Claire explores the nexus between perception, movement in shared spaces and explorations of the unfamiliar (both in terms of unfamiliar places and cultures and the unfamiliarity of the more-than-human). Influenced by intertextual and spatial approaches, Claire develops video works that explore the details of the everyday and the mundane. She combines language, audio and spatial understandings of place, drawing from research into materiality, place and the environment. Originally from Naarm/Melbourne in Australia, and having worked for periods in Thailand and Singapore, Claire is particularly interested in how creative practice can be an entry point into exploring the unfamiliar and the unknown in an open and curious way.
Claire began her creative journey as a poet, before moving into an interdisciplinary practice developing multimedia projects. Claire has a practice-led PhD focusing on translocal creative practice, which she is further developing in a Donald Horne Creative and Cultural Fellowship with the University of Canberra in 2024.
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Education
PhD (2022), University of Canberra, Australia Thesis topic: ‘Applying a reflective translocal practice: Negotiating between creative practice and an unfamiliar culture’
2010 MA (Arts Management), RMIT University, Australia (awarded RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Award for Academic Excellence)
2007 CELTA (Certificate of English Language Teaching to Adults), Holmes College, Australia
2006 BA (Hons), La Trobe University, Australia
2005 Dip. Lang. (Spanish), La Trobe University, Australia
2001 Victorian Certificate of Education – Ashwood College
Programmes & residencies
2024 Residency at Culture Hub Croatia, Split, Croatia (supported by the Culture Moves Europe programme)
2024 Donald Horne Creative and Cultural Fellowship, University of Canberra, Australia
2024– Intercultural Companion, Migrantour Barcelona
2024 International Literature Exchange participant, National Centre for Writing (UK) and British Council
2023 International Online Residency Programme, MANGO Residencia para Artistas together and les Ateliers de Création et d’Expression Artistique
2016–17 Visiting Researcher at the Australian Studies Centre, University of Barcelona, Spain
2016 Craft Victoria Writing Programme, Melbourne, Australia
2014 The Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship, Melbourne, Australia
Awards
Best Animated Videopoetry at Vesuvius International Film Fest, Italy, 30 December 2022 (for ‘Threads’)
Shortlisted for the Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award 2018 (for ‘State of the Earth’)
Exhibitions & film festivals
42 Splitski Salon (group exhibition), Split, Croatia, 21 September – 15 November 2024
Fotogenia Vol. 5, Mexico City, Mexico, 22 November–3 December 2023
Nature & Culture – Poetry Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20–30 November 2023
Edition VI at Marnay sur Seine (group exhibition), France, 2 July–5 August 2023
International Migration & Enviromental Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 5–11 June 2023
‘The AiR We Breathe’ (group exhibition), Weave Artisan Society as part of the Art for Air Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 11 March – 2 April 2023
Vesuvius International Film Fest, Italy, 30 December 2022
‘Upending I Mending’ (group exhibition), the University of Canberra’s Faculty of Arts and Design annual exhibition, Belconnon Art Centre, Canberra, Australia, 20 May – 3 July 2022
Tranås at the Fringe – International Arts Festival, Sweden, 2 July 2022
REELpoetry/HoustonTX 2021 festival, USA, 24–28 February 2022
Poetry on the Move festival, Canberra/online, October 2021
‘ISO TOPICS’ (group exhibition), Belconnon Art Centre (online), Canberra, Australia, 2020
‘(Dash)topia’ (group exhibition), ANCA Gallery, Canberra, Australia, 30 October – 17 November 2019
Espai SOUVENIR (solo exhibition), Barcelona, 9–21 November 2018
7th International Video Poetry Festival, Athens, Greece, 15 December 2018
Work published in the following
Moving Poems, eds. Dave Bonta and Marie Craven, 2023
Cordite 102: GAME, eds. Rory Green and Jini Maxwell, 2021
Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique, eds. Francesca Teltscher Taylor and Giulia Mastrantoni, 2020
Verity La, 2019
Adani ebook, 2018
Coolabah, ed. Peter Bakowski, 2018
Socialist Alternative, Ella Jeffery, 2017
Poetry d’Amour Anthology, ed. Kevin Gillam, 2017
Westerly, eds. Amy Hilhorst and Owen Bullock (eds), Online Special Issue 3, 2017
Axon, ed. Scott Brook, 2016
Australian Poetry Journal, ed. Michael Sharkey, 2016
Transnational Literature, ed. Gillian Dooley, 2016
Right Now, ed. Roselina Press, 2016
Offset 15, Victoria Univserity Press, 2015
Verge, ed. Gabriel Garcia Ochoa, Rebecca Jones and Oscar Schwartz, Monash University Press, Melbourne, 2014
fourW nineteen New Writing, ed. David Gilbey, fourW press, Wagga Wagga, 2008
Voiceworks #70, ed. Ryan Payne, Melbourne, Express Media, 2007
Visible Ink, eds. Melanie Lewis, Rebecca Miller, Sarah Ramler, Amy Sawyer, Sopie Splatt & Jacinda Woodhead, Melbourne, Visible Ink, 2007
Community
Creative writing editor for human rights journal Right Now (2016–2019)
Poetry reader for Overland (2015–2019)
Assistant editor/translator for Double Dialogues special edition with Catalan poets (2017)
Reader for Alan Marshall Short Story Award, Nillumbik City Council, Australia (2015–16)
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