About The Artist

Claire Davenhall was born in 1978 in London, UK, and graduated from the oldest established fine art institution in Scotland, Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Sculpture, she studied at Athens School of Fine Art & North Karelia Polytechnic in Finland. Now living in Perth in Western Australia, she has had 7 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions in Australia, New York, Paris, and London. She exhibits alongside ‘World Class’ artists in exhibitions such as Sculpture at Scenic World 2018 in NSW, Swell Sculpture Festival 2017 in QLD, Sculpture by the Sea 2015 in WA, awarded Winner of the Shinju Matsuri in 2016 and Major Prize Winner of the Drift Installation Awards 2017. She received an Honorable Mention Award, for participation and distinction with her sculpture Lost Soles at Sea at the International Circle Foundation Artist of the Year Awards in 2019. She won the International Guest Panellist’s Choice Award at the Walker Gallery in the UK, where she was recognized as having innovation & excellence worldwide. In 2021 she exhibited her work as part of the International Indian Ocean Craft Triennial IOTA21 and received a Certificate of Excellence for her sculpture ‘Balancing Act’ by Circle Foundation in 2022 and was awarded as Artistic Excellence Artist of the Year in 2023. Her current solo-touring exhibition ‘Lost Soles’ explores the early migration of people to Australia, taking inspiration from found objects to reveal the hidden stories and provide historical identity to the lost souls, sentenced to land beyond the seas. This work invites the viewer to take a closer look and bring together a sense of people and place through art.