Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Peta Clancy's selected solo exhibitions have been included at Performance Space, Sydney (in collaboration with Helen Pynor) (2011); Dominik Mersch Gallery (2009 and 2007), Sydney; Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2007); Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, UK (2005); Platform Public Contemporary Art Spaces (2001); Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Studio 12 (1997); and Centre for Contemporary Photography (1995). Clancy's selected group exhibitions include Controversy: The Power of Art, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery (2012) and Imagining the Everyday, Pingyao International Photography Festival, China (2010).
In 2012 Clancy and Pynor were awarded an honorary mention in the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica in Austria for their ambitious exhibition project The Body is a Big Place commissioned by Performance Space. Furthermore, they have been awarded an ANAT Synapse Art/Science Residency Grant to undertake a four-month residency at St. Vincent's hospital, Sydney in 2012. Clancy's artwork has been published in andlsquo;Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art' by Ingeborg Reichle and andlsquo;Look: Contemporary Australian Photography Since 1980' by Anne Marsh. Articles about her work have featured in the contemporary art journals: Artlink, Eyeline, Photofile, RealTime, Asian Art News and a front cover article in Australian Art Collector (2007). She has undertaken commissions at the Australian Museum and the 2006 Mozart Festival in Salzburg, Austria.
PhD, Monash; MFA, RMIT; and BFA, RMIT.
Projects
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Confluences
Clancy, P. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
Australia Council for the Arts
1/04/23 → 1/04/25
Project: Research
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'Erasure Recovery Place' Project
Clancy, P. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
1/11/17 → 17/12/17
Project: Research
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Feeling Locating Place: an exploration of the Victorian Massacre Map
Clancy, P. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
11/09/17 → 28/02/18
Project: Research
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Aftermath
Clancy, P. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI))
Australia Council for the Arts
1/04/13 → 30/09/14
Project: Research
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2012 Synapse Residency
Clancy, P. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Pynor, H. (Chief Investigator (CI))
Australian Network for Art & Technology
1/09/12 → 31/12/12
Project: Research
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birrarung/kurrum ba birrarung/dirrabeen
Clancy, P. (Artist), 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Research
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'birrarung ba brungergalk' - SM - Van Abbemuseum
Clancy, P. (Artist), 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
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here merri merri lies
Clancy, P. (Artist), 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Research
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birrarung ba brungergalk
Clancy, P. (Artist), 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Research
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'Confluence' - SM - 'Melbourne Now'
Clancy, P. (Photographer), 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
Prizes
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2012 Ars Electronica Archive - Prix: Honorary Mention
Clancy, P. (Recipient) & Pynor, H. (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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2019 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize - 'Undercurrent' - Shortlisted
Clancy, P. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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2020 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize shortlist - 'Undercurrent #4' (2020)
Clancy, P. (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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2023 Banyule Award for Works on Paper - Finalist: 'Here Merri Merri Lies'
Clancy, P. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize 2017 - Finalist
Clancy, P. (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
File
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Discussion: The Soils Project: A Focus on First Nations
Clancy, P. (Contributor) & Wandin, B. (Contributor)
8 Oct 2023Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Panel Discussion: Who's in the Picture
Clancy, P. (Contributor)
12 Feb 2023Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Acquisition - MUMA: 'birrarung ba brungergalk' (1-5)
Clancy, P. (Contributor)
2023Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Acquisition
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CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY / PETA CLANCY, SIMRYN GILL, BRETT NEILSON AND AMANDA WILLIAMS
Clancy, P. (Contributor)
22 Sept 2023Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Bendigo Art Gallery: First Nations Photography: In conversation with artist Peta Clancy and First Nations Engagement Curator Lorraine Brigdale
Clancy, P. (Contributor)
4 Nov 2023Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Press/Media
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BENDIGO TIMES: 'Beneath the surface of artist’s Undercurrent'
30/01/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Review
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L’INTERNATIONALE ONLINE: 'Decolonial aesthesis: weaving each other, a conversation'
27/09/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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ART GUIDE AUSTRALIA: 'Digging deep with The Soils Project'
24/08/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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NATIONAL INDIGENOUS TIMES: 'TarraWarra Museum unveils art exhibition exploring relationship between environmental change and colonisation'
21/08/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature