CLARE TOMS | VISUAL ARTIST
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
+ Small Works 2022, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Lucid 2022, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Interconnected, Exhibition curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale Australia.
2021
+ Solo Exhibition - Essence - Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.
+ Dark Art 2021, Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Happy Place, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
+ Aloha Mr Hand, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
+ Summer 2021, Metro Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Brink, Antler Gallery, Portland USA.
2020
+ Thinkspace Scope Miami Art Fair 'The Price of Everything & The Value of Nothing' group exhibition - Thinkspace Gallery @ Scope Art Fair, Miami USA.
+ Solo Exhibition - Parallel - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Mother Earth, Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
+ Antipodes 2020 - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Copro Gallery LA Art Show Group Exhibition - Copro Gallery Booth 1213 @ LA Art Show, Los Angeles USA.
+ 7th Annual Exploring the New Contemporary Movement - Thinkspace Gallery @ POW!WOW! Hawaii Mural Festival, Hawaii USA.
2019
+ Summer Group Exhibition, Metro Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Thinkspace Scope Miami Art Fair Group Show - Thinkspace Gallery Booth F05 @ Scope Art Fair, Miami USA.
+ Solo Exhibition - Evoke - Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.
+ Moniker Art Fair London - Thinkspace Gallery (LA) 12x12 Group Exhibition, London England.
+ LAX / ORD II - Thinkspace Gallery (LA) curated show at Vertical Gallery, Chicago USA.
+ Dark Art 2019 - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ LAX / SFO III - Thinkspace Gallery (LA) curated show at Heron Arts, San Francisco USA.
+ Exploring the New Contemporary Movement - Thinkspace Gallery @ POW!WOW! Hawaii Mural Festival, Hawaii USA.
+ Copro Gallery LA Art Show Group Exhibition - Copro Gallery Booth 143 @ LA Art Show, Los Angeles USA.
+ Summer Collection, Metro Gallery, Melbourne Australia
+ Artists Showcase, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.
2018
+ Thinkspace Scope Miami Art Fair Group Show - Thinkspace Gallery Booth F05 @ Scope Art Fair, Miami USA.
+ Flow - Australian-based Artists Exhibition - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Static Medium Curated Group Show - Gallery 1988, Los Angeles USA.
+ BLAB! 13th Anniversary Show - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
+ Small Works 2018 - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Finalist - Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Art Prize, Stanthorpe Australia.
+ Dark Art 2018 - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
2017
+ Underworld - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
+ Artist Showcase - Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.
+ Solo Exhibition - 'Perpetual Motion', Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.
+ Loved to Death - Modern Eden, San Francisco USA.
+ Romancing the Skull - Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria Australia.
+ BLAB! 12th Anniversary Show - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
+ Small Works 2017 - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
2016
+ Summer Group Show, Metro Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Memento Mori: Skulls & Bones in Art - Huntington Beach Art Center, California USA.
+ Small Works 2016 - Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Summer Soiree - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
+ Still Life - Reanimating the Inanimate - Pine Rivers Art Gallery, Brisbane Australia.
+ Art Takes Times Square, New York USA.
+ Cube Exhibition - Baker+Hesseldenz Gallery, Arizona USA.
+ Solo Exhibition - 'Halcyon', Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.
2015
+ Snap to Grid Photography Exhibition, Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art, Los Angeles USA.
+ Artists Showcase, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.
+ The Voice of the Artist - Booth 236, SCOPE Art Fair, Miami USA.
+ Still Life - Linus Galleries, Los Angeles USA.
+ Summer Soiree - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
+ PAIN/TING Open Walls Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
+ Exposure Award Digital Exhibition, The Louvre, Paris, France.
+ Winner - Lethbridge 10 000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.
+ 6x6, Auguste Clown Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Acquisition into Imago Mundi- a selection of work commissioned by Luciano Benetton, The Benetton Foundation.
+ Supergraph Graphic Art Fair - Signed & Numbered, Melbourne Australia.
2014
+ Finalist Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Australia.
+ Finalist Linden Postcard Prize, Linden Centre for Contempoary Art, Melbourne Australia.
+ Halloween, Auguste Clown Gallery, Melbourne Australia.
+ Finalist Lethbridge 10 000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.
+ Supergraph Graphic Art Fair - Signed & Numbered Booth, Melbourne Australia.
+ Two - Just Another Project Space, Melbourne.
2013
+ Guise Solo Show -19Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast Australia.
+ 20th Anniversary Show - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
+ One - Just Another Project Space, Melbourne.
+ Mighty Small - Brenda May Gallery, Sydney.
+ Brisbane Low Brow -Bleeding Heart Gallery, Brisbane.
+ Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize - Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane.
+ The Art of Cirque du Soleil - 19Karen Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast Australia.
2012
+ Second Skin, Copro Gallery Los Angeles USA.
+ Fleeting Bonds Solo Show - 19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast Australia
+ Finalist Lethbridge 10 000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery Brisbane Australia.
+ Homage to Hollywood - 19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast Australia.
+ The Art of Spain -19 KAREN Contemporary Artspace, Gold Coast Australia.
+ Finalist Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Art Prize - Judge: Davida Allen.
2011
+ Trans-Siberian Arts Centre Travelling Exhibition (Beijing to Moscow).
+ Black Christmas - Copro Gallery Los Angeles USA.
+ Finalist Lethbridge 10 000 Art Prize - Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane Australia.
+ Genesis to Revelations - Copro Gallery, Los Angeles USA.
+ Danger Daze Issue 7 - Produced/ Curated by Nick Drake, Brisbane Australia.
2010
+ Finalist ‘Bowness Photographic Prize’ -Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria.
+ Finalist ‘Waterhouse Prize’ International Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide Australia.
+ Finalist ‘Stanthorpe Acquisitive Prize’, Judged by Art Critic, John McDonald.
+ Danger Daze Issue 6 - Produced/Curated Nick Drake, Brisbane Australia.
+ Solo Show ‘Journey’ - Glen Innes Art Gallery, Australia.
2009
+ ‘<1M’ -Flipbook Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ Segundo Aniversario - 5DMayo Experimental, Queretaro, Mexico.
+ CollecART’ - Museo Juguete Antiguo México, Mexico City, Mexico.
+ Introducing II - Brenda May Gallery, Danks St, Sydney, Australia.
2008
+ Sneaker Culture - Flipbook Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ BARI Brisbane Artist Run Initiative – KILN Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ We Make Good Pets - Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ Memento Mori - Brenda May Gallery, Danks St, Sydney, Australia.
+ Behind Glass - KILN Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ Tingalpa – Project Gallery QCA, Brisbane, Australia.
+ Still Life - Brenda May Gallery, Danks St, Sydney, Australia .
+ Brisscapes - Flipbook Gallery, Brisbane.
2007
+ Exit Strategy – Queensland College of Art Brisbane, Australia.
+ Glen Archies Portrait Prize - Glen Innes Gallery, Australia.
+ One Night Only - Project Gallery QCA, Brisbane, Australia.
2006
+Emerge - Queensland College of Art Brisbane, Australia
+ Moving Art - Travelling Exhibition New England Regional Art Museum, Australia.
Awards
+ 2018 Finalist - Stanthorpe Art Prize, Stanthorpe Australia.
+ 2015 Winner - Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ 2014 Finalist - Eutick Memorial Still Life Award, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour, Australia.
+ 2014 Finalist - Linden Centre for Contemporary Art, Postcard Prize, Melbourne.
+ 2014 Finalist - Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ 2013 Finalist - Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ 2012 Highly Commended Prize - Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, Stanthorpe Australia.
+ 2012 Finalist - Lethbridge 10000 Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ 2011 Finalist - Lethbridge Art Prize, Lethbridge Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
+ 2010 Finalist - Bowness Photographic Prize, Monash Gallery of Art, Victoria
+ 2010 Finalist - Waterhouse Prize, International Natural History Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide, Australia.
+ 2010 Finalist - Stanthorpe Regional Gallery Prize, Stanthorpe Regional Gallery, Stanthorpe Australia.
+ 2009 Portrait Prize - GI Gallery Exhibition, Australia.
+ 2008 Portrait Prize - GI Gallery Exhibition, Australia.
+ 2007 Ord Minnett Prize - best body of work across all disciplines in the Bachelor of Fine Art, Griffith University.
+ 2007 Glen Archies Portrait Prize - Glen Innes Gallery, Australia.
+ 2006 Academic Achievement Award - Griffith University, Australia.
+ 2001 ArtExpress - Touring Art award for HSC Students, NSW Australia.
Publications
+ “Transience, Spirituality and Human Essence: An Interview with Clare Toms”, Natalia Joruk, Beautiful Bizarre Magazine Online, Oct 2020.
+ “Ballarat's "Romancing the Skull" shows us beauty is bone deep”, Alison Stieven-Taylor, Australian Financial Review, 29 September 2017, online.
+ "Hope and Love”, Fiona Purdon, U on Sunday Magazine, The Courier Sun Sunday Mail, 21 June 2015, p.30.
+ “The Nature Collection” The Exposure Photography Award, August 2015.
+ “Matters of Life and Death”, Tim Hannaford, Paradise Magazine - Gold Coast Bulletin, 10 Nov 2013, p.23.
+ “Viva Espana”, Marina Saint Martin, Paradise Magazine - Gold Coast Bulletin, 23 June 2012, p.23.
+ “Glen Artist in with a Chance”, Northern Daily Leader, June 2010.
+ “Clare Up For Major Art Prize”, Naomi Davidson, GI Examiner 2010.
+ “Clare’s Journey Leads to Solo Show”, Naomi Davidson, GI Examiner, February 2010.
+ ABC Radio, Solo Exhibition Interview, Kelly Fuller, February 2010.
+ “Close Encounter in Mexico”, Naomi Davidson, GI Examiner, May 2009.
+ ABC Radio, Live Interview from Mexico, Kelly Fuller, May 2009.
+ ABC Radio, Swine Flu Correspondence Live Interview from Mexico, Kelly Fuller, April 2009.
+ Exit Strategy Queensland College of Art Liveworm Studio 2007.