MAREE CLARKE – IN THE FLICKER OF LIGHT

Image credit: Eugene Hyland

Maree Clarke |

Wurneet buath (river reed) vessel #1

2023

blown Murrini and incalmo glass

48.5 x 10 x 10 cm

$6,500

The artist’s most ambitious glass project to date – the culmination of residencies across the State of Washington, USA and Canberra, Australia – this unparalleled exhibition is an in-depth exploration of the medium of glass and its seemingly endless possibilities in re-thinking and re-presenting cultural materials and objects in transfixing new ways.

Maree Clarke |

Wurneet buath (river reed) vessel #7

2023

blown Murrini and incalmo glass

46.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm

$6,000

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Maree’s award of the esteemed $6O,OOO Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture in 2O23 facilitated the production of the hero work for this exhibition – a 3 metre-long canoe comprised of 2O suspended glass sections patterned with microscopic river reeds in Murrini glass.

Maree Clarke |

Murrini Canoe

2024

hand cut and finished, blown Murrini glass, stainless cables

300 x 30.5 x 17 cm, suspended height variable

$120,000

Maree Clarke |

Wurneet buath (river reed) vessel #2

2023

blown Murrini and incalmo glass

55.5 x 10 x 10 cm

$6,500

Maree Clarke |

Wurneet buath (river reed) vessel #3

2023

blown Murrini and incalmo glass

59 x 10 x 10.5 cm

$6,800

Maree Clarke |

Wurneet buath (river reed) vessel #4

2023

blown Murrini and incalmo glass

55.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm

$6,800

Maree Clarke |

Wurneet buath (river reed) vessel #5

2023

blown incalmo glass

50.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm

$6,800

Maree Clarke |

Wurneet buath (river reed) vessel #6

2023

blown Murrini and incalmo glass

46.5 x 10 x 10 cm

$6,000

Maree Clarke |

Wurneet buath (river reed) vessel #8

2023

blown incalmo glass

43 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm

$5,000

Maree Clarke |

Wurneet buath (river reed) vessel #9

2023

blown incalmo glass

41.5 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm

$6,000

Maree Clarke |

Wurneet buath (river reed) vessel #10

2023

blown Murrini and incalmo glass

53.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm

$6,800

Maree Clarke |

Wurneet buath (river reed) vessel #11

2023

blown incalmo glass

30 x 10 x 10 cm

$5,000

Maree Clarke |

Gurrong (river reed canoe) #1

2023

hot sculpted glass

68 x 9 x 17 cm

$15,000

Maree Clarke |

Gurrong (river reed canoe) #3

2023

hot sculpted glass

70 x 10 x 20 cm

$15,000

These beautiful sculptural objects speak of the fragility of Indigenous knowledge and ways of being and of the extraordinary power and resilience of First Nations culture. Like the chimerical nature of glass, Clarke remains open and receptive to a kind of imaginative shapeshifting within her work, and it is from this ability and practice that she so ably facilitates a continuation of cultural stories and memory.”

— Kelly Gellatly

Maree Clarke |

Gurrong (river reed canoe) #2

2023

hot sculpted glass

80 x 10 x 14 cm

$18,000

Maree Clarke |

Gayaam (Murrini broad shield)

2024

fused and polished Murrini glass, acacia

85 x 24.5 x 10 cm

$18,000

Maree Clarke |

Gurrong (river reed canoe) #4

2023

hot sculpted glass

70 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm

$9,000

Maree Clarke |

Gurrong (river reed canoe) #5

2023

hot sculpted glass

70 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm

$9,000

Maree Clarke |

Gayaam (Murrini broad shield)

2024

fused and polished Murrini glass, acacia

88 x 23 x 10 cm

$18,000

Maree Clarke |

Gayaam #2 (broad shield)

2023

hot sculpted glass

79 x 20 x 15 cm

$15,000

Maree Clarke |

Gayaam #4 (parrying shield)

2023

hot sculpted glass

65 x 10 x 14 cm

$15,000

Maree Clarke |

Gayaam #1 (broad shield)

2023

hot sculpted glass

61 x 10 x 15 cm

$12,000

Maree Clarke |

Gayaam #3 (broad shield)

2023

hot sculpted glass

62 x 17 x 10 cm

$12,000

I just think it’s so important to pass on cultural knowledge. It’s who you are, it’s where you’re from, it’s part of you, it’s part of me. And the only way that I can do that is through art.”

— Maree Clarke

Maree Clarke |

Gayaam #5 (broad shield) 2023-2024

hot sculpted glass, acacia

59 x 19 x 10 cm

$14,000

Maree Clarke |

Gayaam #5 (broad shield) 2023-2024

etched hot sculpted glass, acacia

53 x 11.5 x 10 cm

$14,000

Maree Clarke |

Gayaam #6 (broad shield) 2023-2024

hot sculpted glass, acacia

68 x 17.5 x 10 cm

$15,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.1 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.2 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.3 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.4 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.5 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.6 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.7 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.8 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.9 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.10 2023-2024

cera

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.11 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.12 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.13 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.14 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.15 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.16 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.17 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.18 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$3,000

In 'In the flicker of light', Clarke concentrates entirely on this [glass] medium – calling upon the extraordinary depth of knowledge developed through her years of studying historical cultural material in museum collections and archives to envisage a new body of work that recreates cultural artefacts in glass.””

— Kelly Gellatly

Maree Clarke |

now you see me: seeing the invisible 3.19 2023-2024

ceramic-based ink cured in toughened glass

35 x 35 x 0.6 cm

$7,000