Tilda Clarke’s multidisciplinary practice explores the body as a site of memory, sensation and lived experience. Working across installation, sculpture, textiles, photography, video and painting, her work considers the relationship between the internal and external landscape, with particular attention to experiences of disability, grief, vulnerability and embodiment.

Her practice is informed by the ways disability can alter an individual’s relationship to their body, environment and sense of self. She explores the internal landscapes that emerge through these experiences, and the ways they might be expressed through material, space and sensory encounter.

Materiality is central to her process. Through ongoing material research, Clarke explores the poetic and sensory qualities of materials, considering their capacity to evoke states of feeling, memory and bodily experience. Texture, weight, tension, softness and form become ways of communicating experiences that can exist beyond language.

Her work moves between the intimate and the environmental, creating spaces in which the physical and psychological, the fragile and the resilient, can coexist.

CV

 

Education

 

2020 – Victorian College of the Arts, BFA Sculpture and Spatial Studies

2026 - National Art School, BFA

 

Residencies

 

May – June 2020 – Gallery 17 Artists Residency Program

August – October 2024 – Stardust Residency, Watch This Space

July 2025 - Residency, Frontyard Marrickville

 

Group Exhibitions

May 2020 – It’s my first time, VCA Artspace

July 2020 – Untitled23, 321 Crown Street Gallery

September 2020 – The Young Creatives Awards Exhibition

November 2020 – Djab Wurrung Silent Auction, Monster Mouse Studios

December 2020 – The Virtually Nude Show, Nepalese International Artists

January 2021 – UN-BOUND, Gallery 17

February 2021 – EMERGENT Exhibition, Artsite Galleries

February 2021 – Rory King with Stitches by Tilda Clarke, TCS Windows

February 2021 – CERES Gathering 2021

March 2021 – To Tend To, Point 5 Gallery

May 2021 – Organic Scratch, Art Space

August 2021 – Earth, Platform Gallery

March 2022 – The Devil’s Advocate, Greenhouse Studios

October 2023 – Borderlines, Goodspace Gallery

September 2024 – Unspeakable, Greenhouse Studios

December 2024 – Club Fel, Rikota Studio

February 2025 – Val with the Pals, Goodspace Gallery

February 2025 – Bindi Digital Art Prize Exhibition, Bindi Gallery, Alice Springs

June 2025 – Refugia, Greenhouse Studios

August 2025 – Soft Touch, Sneaky Possum Gallery

November 2025 – Dirt, Mold and Filth, Alpha Gallery

November 2025 – The Divide, Alpha House Gallery

Solo Exhibitions

 

January, 2021 ‘Stitches’ The pink place collective

Publications

 

May 2020 – Quivering in Quarantine: Volume III, Limbs Locusts and Lavender, Artist Profile

June 2020 – Art Swap Gallery, United Kingdom, Online Feature

July 2020 – Art on the Patio, Online Feature

July 2020 – The Student Gallery, United Kingdom, Artist Profile, Feature and Interview

July 2020 – The Lighthouse Collaborative, Online Feature

July 2020 – Imagi-Nation TV, AIME Mentoring, Live Broadcast and Profile

September 2020 – !GWAK.CO Magazine and Blog, Interview, UK

December 2020 – Feminist Art Museum, Online Artist Feature

August 2021 – Cults of Life, Magazine, UK

March 2022 – Stories of Healing, Soft Stir Magazine

February 2024 – The Secret Routine Magazine

 

Awards

 

July 2020 – Finalist, Inoventa Award

September 2020 – Shortlisted, The Young Creatives Award

September 2021 – First Place, Inner West Creative Award

September 2022 – Finalist, Broken Hill Outback Artists Awards

October 2024 – Finalist, Bindi Digital Art Award