qualifications

MFA
Elam School of Fine Art 2016

PGDipFA
Elam School of Fine Art 2014

B.F.A. (Sculpture)  
Otago Polytechnic School of Art 2009

selected exhibition history

peer-reviewed exhibitions

2016  Landed, George Fraser Gallery, University of Auckland.
2015  From Now On, George Fraser Gallery, University of Auckland.
2014  The whole is now in pieces, PGDip grad show, Elam School of Art, University of Auckland.
2013  Many trees from other lands are already with us, Other Echoes, Dunedin Botanic Garden
2013  Look Forward, Not Back (interloper bust), RH Gallery, Auckland Art Fair.
2013  From Now On (No Garden of Eden), Wallace Gallery Morrinsville
2013  Push to talk. Peace Gallery, Auckland May 2013 As part of One Day Wonder Series
2013  The Material World. Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Dunedin.
2012  2 but not 2. 2012 Performance Series (Dunedin Fringe Festival), Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin.
2011  Push to talk. Anteroom, Port Chalmers As part of Qubit - A weekend of contemporary performance art. 
2011  At once we are rootless and harbouring, floating on an inland sea (I am from here). Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin.
2010  Patriarchy Free Zone: Imagination Station. Otago University Art Week, Dunedin.
2010  Reconcile Yourself! Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand
2009  Post, Place Gallery, Richmond, Vic, Australia
2009  Instructional Models, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand

other exhibitions
2010  Lets Roar Loudly! Lower Stuart Street, Dunedin, New Zealand
2010  Ever newly begin the praise you cannot accomplish, Milnthorpe Park, Takaka
2009  Ten Day Boutique, None Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2009  SITE09, School of Art, Dunedin, New Zealand
2009  Toasty, The Engine Room, Wellington, New Zealand
2009  Toasty, School of Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2008  Octarchy, Old Dunedin North Post Office, Dunedin, New Zealand
2008  13+8, Sew Hoy Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
2008  The Grow Project, Dunedin Fringe Festival, Dunedin, New Zealand
2007  Other, Dunedin, New Zealand

events/curation
2012  Let's Roar Loudly! Publication. Editor/Designer
2010  Lets Roar Loudly! Weekend Symposium & Exhibition, Pioneer Womens Memorial Hall, Dunedin, New Zealand

 

reviews and publications

2011  "Clare Fleming at the Blue Oyster" Nick Duval-Smith blog
2011  "Clare Fleming’s at once we are rootless and harbouring, floating on an inland sea (I am from here)"  Hana Aoake, Critic
2010  “Thought Provoking Art. Another World Is Possible” Bell Murphy, Marrow Magazine
2009  “Pearls Need True Grit: The Origins and Evolution of the Blue Oyster” Sarah Wilson, in Old, New, Borrowed, Blue: 10 Years at the Blue Oyster (Anniversary Publication)
2009  Otago Daily Times, May 7 - Collecting Culture, Blue Oyster Gallery
2008  Otago Daily Times, April 3 - Grow Project, Dunedin Fringe Festival
2008  The Star, April 3 - Grow Project, Dunedin Fringe Festival

awards

2010  OUSA Best Installation prize for the OUSA Art Week
2009  Otago Polytechnic Lindsay Crooks Memorial Prize for Life Drawing
2008  OUSA Art Week printmaking prize