CV
EDUACATION
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Literature, Art, and Media/ Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2020)
Masters of Studio Art (Sculpture), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney (2015)
EMPLOYMENT
Lecturer the School of the Arts and Media, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW, 2023 - current
Freelance: director, production designer, dramaturg 2000- current.
Lecturer Visual and Contemporary Art, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney 2022-2023
Sessional Academic, University of Technology, Sydney. Design Studies, Design, Architecture and Building 2015-2022
Sessional Academic, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, 2021-22
Co-Artistic Director, founding member My Darling Patricia, 2004-14
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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Performance; embodied research; Practice-led research; creative process; production design; collaborative practice; site-based art; cross-disciplinary art; environmental humanities, feminism, walking, rivers.
AWARDS (selected)
2020 Finalist 20th Anniversary Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize
2019 Cooks River Small Sculpture Prize (Greenway Art Prize)
2018 Sydney University Doctoral Research Travel Grant Scheme Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
2017 Sydney University Postgraduate Award
2016 Finalist Edmund Barton Sydney University Medal
2014 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship
2014 Helpmann Award: Best Visual Or physical Theatre Production(Whelping Box)
2013 Green Room Award: Outstanding Contemporary Performance (Whelping Box)
2010 Green Room Award: Best Production Design Hybrid Work. (Hole in the Wall)
2009 Green Room Award for Production Design for a Hybrid Work (Night Garden)
2007 Adelaide Fringe Festival: Best Production (Politely Savage)
2006 Sydney Theatre Award: Best Independent Production (Politely Savage)
2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival Award: Best Production (Politely Savage)
Selected publications & creative works
ESSAYS, PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Magnetic Topographies: a conversation with Therese Keogh, Clare Britton and Kenzee Patterson, by Sofia Sid Akhmed, UnProjects, Naarm, 2024
Educated Bodies, co-presented panel with Therese Keogh, Faid Mazin Ahmad and Dana Marjan (Betchouف), Louisa King, Malak Al-Faraj, and Jacqueline Tran, facilitated by Endriana Audisho, as part of Reorientations: Exploring Architecture’s New Social Role, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, 2023
Walking Wolli Creek Clare Britton and Alexandra Crosby Sydney Review of Books, October 2022
Flows- Bodies of Water- A reader, Edited by Filipa Ramos. Contributions by Clare Britton, Mel Y. Chen, Fan Xiao, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Han Song, Huo Xiangjie, Andrés Jaque, Yuan-Chih Lung, Astrida Neimanis, Marina Otero Verzier, Luciana Parisi, Lucia Pietroiusti, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Filipa Ramos, Wang Hongzhe, Wang Wei, Mark Wigley, You Mi. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=9019 Published with Power Station of Art, Shanghai, and Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. 2021. Bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Hacking the Anthropocene: Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions. (chapter) Ed. J.M. Hamilton, S. Reid, P. van Gelder and A. Neimanis. Open Humanities Press is a scholar-led, not-for-profit Community Interest Company incorporated in London. (2021)
Wiedersehen Mit Einem Brunnen/A Well Revisited by Therese Keogh. Contributions by Harald Stauble, Clare Britton and Kenzee Patterson. Edited by Sabine Wolfram smac - State Museum for Archeology Chemnitz. Catalog for the exhibition series "a - wie atelier im smac", Volume 3 (Dresden 2021) texts in German / English.
Cp20 Edited by Carolyn Craig. Contributions by Julie Fragar, Rebecca Beardmore, Julia Bavyka, Clare Britton, Carolyn Craig, Mirabelle Wouters, Damian Dillon, Rebecca Shanahan, Miranda and Brenda Samuels and Wendy Murray. Published by Yellow George/Schmick Projects with the support of Waverley Council. 2021.
The river ends as the ocean, Astrida Neimanis and Clare Britton, 2020, the online performance lecture. 13th Shanghai Biennale Phrase 1 - *A* Wet Run rehearsal, Power Station of Art.
On Processing Process. Extra! Extra! PACT Centre for emerging and experimental art. Edition 2, July 2020
Down by the River Extra! Extra! PACT Centre for emerging and experimental art. Edition 3, August 2020
Photo Essay: Travelling The Cooks River, From Yagoona to Botany Bay, Sydney Environment Institute Blog. 20th March 2019
Holes [working title], Therese Keogh (ed.), independently published, Sydney, 2018.
C. Britton; T. Keogh and K. Patterson Two Rivers and a Well. Art and its Directions, University of Western Australia: Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, December 2017. (co-convener and panellist)
5 Kilometers of Water Hacking the Anthropocene Symposium. Convenors: Dr Astrida Neimanis and Dr Jennifer Mae Hamilton, University of Sydney, May 2017. (panellist)
Posts in the Paddock: revisiting the Jimmy Governor tragedy, approaching reconciliation and connecting families through the medium of theatre. The Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, Vol.4 No.1, 2013.
PERFORMANCE
K'AINGA CommonWealth - K’lub Measina – Night Dance of the Deities Kilia Pahulu, Salvador Brown, Saia Tu'itahi and Sela Vai; led by Latai Taumoepeau and Rosanna Raymond. Liveworks Festival, Performance Space, Carriageworks, 2023 (set design)
Polar Force. Experimental Sound. E. Ughetti, P. Smartzis, C.Britton, N Roux, K. Tucker and M. Schack-Arnott. Now or Never Festival 2023 (co-director)
Polar Force. Experimental Sound. E. Ughetti, P. Smartzis, C.Britton, N Roux, K. Tucker and M. Schack-Arnott. Carriageworks, Sydney Festival 2023 (co-director)
The Nightline. R. Oades, B. Scott with K. Molino, C. Britton, F. Brusamolino & K. Tucker. Adelaide Festival, 2022 (production design)
The Nightline. R. Oades, B. Scott with K. Molino, C. Britton, F. Brusamolino & K. Tucker. Sydney Festival, 2022 (production design)
A River Ends as the Ocean, A. Neimanis, R. Dixon Grovenor and C. Britton A durational public walk 7 hours in Sydney; variable hours in Shanghai. Bodies of Water, 13th Shanghai Biennale of Art, An Eco-system of Alliances. Sydney and Shanghai 2021. (visual artist)
The Nightline. R. Oades, B. Scott with K. Molino, C. Britton, F. Brusamolino & K. Tucker. The Rising Festival, Melbourne 2021 (season incomplete due to COVID)
(production design)
Polar Force. Experimental Sound. E. Ughetti, P. Smartzis, C.Britton, N Roux, K. Tucker and M. Schack-Arnott. Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, Netherlands, 2019
(co-director)
Polar Force. Experimental Sound. E. Ughetti, P. Smartzis, C.Britton, N Roux, K. Tucker and M. Schack-Arnott. Ruhrtriennale, Essen, Germany, 2019
(co-director)
Polar Force. Experimental Sound. E. Ughetti, P. Smartzis, C.Britton, N Roux, K. Tucker and M. Schack-Arnott. CyberArts exhibition, The Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, 2019 (co-director)
Polar Force. Experimental Sound. E. Ughetti, P. Smartzis, C.Britton, N Roux, K. Tucker and M. Schack-Arnott. Transart Festival, Bolzano, Italy, 2019 (co-director)
The Nightline. R. Oades, B. Scott with K. Molino, C. Britton, F. Brusamolino & G. Cameron, B. Hackett D. Hawkes, D. Kirkpatrick and the Nightline Brainstrust
Urban Theatre Projects and Blacktown Arts Centre’s Right Here Right Now Festival, 2018 (site design)
A Faint Existence. Contemporary dance. K. Chan with C. Britton, J. Brown, B. Cistern, V.Hunt. Dance Massive Festival, Dance House, Melbourne, 2019
(collaborating artist, production design)
Polar Force. Experimental Sound. E. Ughetti, P. Smartzis, C.Britton, N Roux, K. Tucker and M. Schack-Arnott. PICA, Perth, 2019
(co-director)
Polar Force. Experimental Sound. E. Ughetti, P. Smartzis, C.Britton, N Roux, K. Tucker and M. Schack-Arnott.. Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, 2018
(co-director)
A Faint Existence. Contemporary dance. K. Chan with C. Britton, J. Brown, B. Cistern, V.Hunt. Unwrapped Festival, Sydney Opera House, Sydney 2018
(collaborating artist, design)
Mountain. Contemporary dance. K Chan with C.Britton, J. Brown, M. Marshall,M. Polamares, M. Polamares, V. Hunt. Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, 2018
(collaborating artist, design)
Speak Percussion’s Assembly Operation. Experimental sound work. E. Ughetti with C.Britton, C.Tang, N Roux, R. Dinnen, J.J. Chen, K. Melville and M. Schack-Arnott.
Art House, Melbourne, 2017 (dramaturg, design)
Tree of Knowledge. Performance. Christian Thompson. Liveworks Festival, Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney 2017 (dramaturg)
Champions. Contemporary dance. M. Del Amo and collaborators, Sydney Festival, Sydney, 2017 (collaborating artist, design)
Urban Theatre Project’s Home Country. Site base performance. Sydney Festival, Sydney, 2017 (collaborating artist, production design)
A Faint Existence. Contemporary dance. K. Chan with C. Britton, J. Brown, B. Cistern, V.Hunt. Liveworks Festival, Performance Space at Carriageworks, Sydney 2016
(collaborating artist, production design)
TANGI-WAI: Cry for Water. Performance. V. Hunt and collaborators. Liveworks Festival, Carriageworks Sydney, 2015, Arts House Dance Massive Festival Melbourne, 2016. (object design)
Songs Not to Dance To. Contemporary dance. Martin Del Amo and Collaborators Riverside Theatre, Sydney, 2015 (costume consultant)
My Darling Patricia’s The Piper. Immersive performance installation for families. C. Britton, H. Macleod and S Routledge with S.James, P. Downing, R. Manner, J. Muller, B. Anderson, M. Mitchell, R. Blake, A. Ahern, G. Gela, C. Grant, M. Robin Anderson; Sydney Festival, Sydney, 2014; Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, 2014 (co-creator, production design, Co-Artistic Director My Darling Patricia).
The Fox and the Freedom Fighters. Performance. R. Dixon Grovenor, N. Dixon and Collaborators. Performance Space at Carriageworks November, Sydney, 2014 (collaborating artist, set design with Nadeena Dixon)
Whelping Box. Performance. C. Britton, M. Prest, L. Wilson, M. Wouters with J.Prest. Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney 2012; Arts House, North Melbourne 2013; Australian Performing Arts Market, Brisbane 2014 (co-creator and design).
Slow Dances for Fast Times. Contemporary dance. Martin Del Amo and Collaborators. Carriageworks March, Sydney 2013 (collaborating artist, production design).
Life Support. Contemporary dance. Ash Dyer and Collaborators. Dance Massive Festival, Dance House, Melbourne, 2013 (collaborating artist, design).
Hole in the Wall. Performance, video, installation. M. Prest and C. Britton with D. Egger, H. Shellam, J. Brown, H.Macleod, J. Blake, A. Nicol, P. Allott; Campbelltown Arts Centre 2010; Performance Space 2010; Next Wave Festival at Arts House. 2010 (co-creator, performance and design).
The Tent. Site specific performance and installation. M. Prest with D. Egger, C. Britton, E. Sharp, T. Osbourne, C. Searle, T. Rewse, J. Prest. Premiered in May 2008 at Federation Square, Melbourne as part of the NEXT WAVE Festival. Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney 2008, Campbelltown Arts Centre 2009, Darwin Festival 2010, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art 2010 (collaborating artist).
My Darling Patricia’s Mantle. Performance and installation. By C. Britton and H. Macleod with M. Marshall, J. Prest,J. Dewi Tyas Tunggal, J. Muller, A. Osborne and C.Ryan; Supported and co-presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre. (co-creator, design, Co-Artistic Director My Darling Patricia)
My Darling Patricia’s Africa: performance. My Darling Patricia Company in Residence Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne 2009 Arts House, Melbourne, 2011; Perth Theatre Company,Perth 2011; Brisbane Powerhouse, 2011; Salamanca Arts Centre, 2011; Adelaide Festival Centre, 2011; Sydney Theatre Company, 2011 (co-creator, design, performance, Co-Artistic Director My Darling Patricia).
My Darling Patricia and Moogahlin Performing Art’s Posts in the Paddock. Performance Installation. Performance Space 2011. (co-creator, design, performance, Co-Artistic Director My Darling Patricia)
My Darling Patricia’s Night Garden. Performance Installation. Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney 2009 Meat Market at Arts House Melbourne, 2009 (co-creator, design, performance, Co-Artistic Director My Darling Patricia)
Stories of Love and Hate. Performance Roslyn Oades and collaborators. Presented at UrbanTheatre Projects and Hazelhurst Regional Gallery 2009 and Sydney Theatre Company’s Ed program. May 2011 (set and costume design).
Dream Shelving. Site-specific video installation in Minto Mall Post Office gallery. S. James and Collaborators. November 2011. Supported by Campbelltown Arts Centre's Artist Initiates Residency Commission (performance).
My Darling Patricia’s Politely Savage. Pact Centre for Emerging Artists in April 2005; The Performance Space, 2006; Victorian Arts Centre, presented by Tilt for Melbourne Fringe Festival, 2008; Vitalstatistix, Adelaide Fringe Festival 2008 (co-creator, design, performance, Co-Artistic Director My Darling Patricia)
Invisible Cities. Site-specific video, installation and performance. S. James and collaborators, General Store, Hill End, Supported by Bathurst Regional Gallery. 2004 (Collaborating artist, performance)
My Darling Patricia’s Dear Pat. Site-specific performance installation: Commissioned by the Performance Space and Theatre Kantanka. The Box Set Live Bait Festival 2004; The Box Set Sydney Olympic Park 2004. (co-creator, design, performance, Co-Artistic Director My Darling Patricia)
My Darling Patricia’s Kissing the Mirror. Care-taker’s apartment, Petersham Town Hall. (co-creator, performance, Co-Artistic Director My Darling Patricia) 2003.
VISUAL ART
A River Ends as the Ocean, Astrida Neimanis, Aunty Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor and Clare Britton A durational public walk 7 hours in Sydney; variable hours in Shanghai. Bodies of Water, 13th Shanghai Biennale of Art, An Eco-system of Alliances. Sydney and Shanghai 2021.
A Week on the River Clare Britton, exhibition Bankstown Arts Centre, September 2021. Curated by Vandana Ram, 2021
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Finalist 2021
A River Ends as the Ocean with Aunty Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor and Astrida Neimanis part of the 13th Shanghai Biennale Bodies of Water. Phrase 3: an exhibition, Power Station of Art, Shanghai.
River Song at Delmar Gallery curated by Catherine Benz. Mervyn Bishop, Diego Bonetto, Clare Britton (including A River Ends as the Ocean with Aunty Rhonda Dixon-Grovenor and Astrida Neimanis), Vincent King, Dmitry Kunzinchenko, Asher Milgate, Jason Wing and historical archives and maps from Sydney Water/Water NSW, City of Canterbury Bankstown, Inner West Council, Adastra Aerial Surveys & Royal Botanic Gardens, 2021.
A Week on the Cooks River Graduating Exhibition Sydney College of the Arts, Old Teachers College, September 2020
Touring Exhibition of Greenway Art Prize (A Week on the Cooks River - winner of Cooks River Small Sculpture Prize). Art Est. Gallery, November 2019; Seaview Gallery – Dulwich Hill School of Visual Art and Design November 2019; Bankstown Arts Centre December, January 2020
Performative Cutting, Donna Sgro, Kristina Chan and Clare Britton Gaffa, October 2019
Holes (working title), curated by Therese Keogh, Our Neon Foe, Sydney, 2018
Cosmopolitan Decline, Opening exhibition with Kenzee Patterson, Asma and Therese Keogh, Broken Hill, Far West NSW 2017
New Contempories Exhibition. Post graduate exhibition Sydney College of the Arts 2015, artists selected by panel of SCA academics.
Whelping Box: short film. By D. Beaubois, C. Britton, M. Prest, L. Wilson, M. Wouters with J.Prest and A.Destoop. Screenings at 24 frames, Carriageworks, 2015. Australian Exposition at the 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Space and Design, 2015 and Siteworks, The Feral Among Us, at Bundanon Artists Trust, 2015
The Yurt Empire: a rogue housing project and site-specific installation; Ardianto R, Axelsen H, Begg Z, Britton C, Conroy R, Crosby A, Fox C, Ganbold Lunbold G, Hamilton J, Harris D, Hepworth K, Johnson C, Moline H, Prest M, Pupilli A, Sivanesan S, van Gelder P, Vered A, Zettel T; Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority/Artist Commission.
RESIDENCIES
2023 Bundanon Artists Trust Residency with Magnetic Topographies (Therese Keogh and Kenzee Patterson)
2022 Culture Lab Residency at Art House with Emily Parsons-Lord development We Drive So Fast It Feels Like Falling
2019 Critical Path Choreographic Residency with Kristina Chan and Donna Sgro for Brightness
2016 Robert Wilson’s Watermill Centre Residency (Clare Britton and Matt Prest)
2017 Campbelltown Arts Centre with Kristina Chan for Mountain
2015 Carriageworks with Kristina Chan for A Faint Existence
2015 Big Ci Blue Mountains Residency with Via Tania 2016
2015 Salamanca Arts Centre with Halcyon Macleod for The Batela Project
2014 Bundanon Artists Trust for Whelping Box film
2013 Campbelltown Arts Centre with Matt Prest for Room Noise
2013 Arts Centre Melbourne for My Darling Patricia’s The Piper
2014 Creative Practice Lab at Usyd for My Darling Patricia’s The Piper.
2014 Performance Space, Carriageworks for Fox and the Freedom Fighters
2014 Country Arts SA (Varcoe's Foundry Residency Program) for My Darling Patricia’s The Piper
2013 Hot House Theatre A Month in the Country residency for Whelping Box
2013 Critical Path residency for Whelping Box
2015 Campbelltown Arts Centre for My Darling Patricia’s Mantle
2009 Malthouse Theatre Company in Residence My Darling Patricia
2010 Bundanon Artists Trust for My Darling Patricia and Moogahlin Performing Art’s Posts in the Paddock
2009 Casula Power House for My Darling Patricia and Moogahlin Performing Art’s Posts in the Paddock
2012 Bundanon Artists Trust for My Darling Patricia’s The Batela Project
2008 Bundanon Artists Trust for My Darling Patricia’s Night Garden.
2007 Hot House Theatre A Month in the Country residency for My Darling Patricia’s Night Garden
2007 Performance Space, Carriageworks for My Darling Patricia’s Night Garden
2007 Art House Culture lab for My Darling Patricia’s Night Garden
2005 Hot House Theatre A Month in the Country residency for My Darling Patricia’s Politely Savage
2004 PACT Centre for Emerging Artists Residnecy for My Darling Patricia’s Politely Savage.
2004 Performance Space, Cleveland St for My Darling Patricia’s Dear Pat
2002 PACT Centre for Emerging Artists Vacant Room Residnecy for My Darling Patricia’s Kissing the Mirror
2003 Caretakers Apartment, Petersham Town Hall, Marrickville Council for My Darling Patricia’s Kissing the Mirror.