Clare Weeks

Clare Weeks

Clare Weeks is a Photomedia Artist known for her experimental, interdisciplinary practice spanning digital and performance video art. Her work focuses on creating evocative autographic portraits that navigate the complex intersections of illness, identity, and the body. Her art invites reflection on how fragility and endurance coexist, and how a distinct beauty can emerge even in the presence of decay.

While primarily focused on digital and video works, Clare's practice occasionally extends to alternative processes such as cyanotypes, lumens, or performative acts like quietly burying a bird after a photoshoot as part of her ongoing dialogue between life and art, where beauty and decay keep uneasy company.

Clare holds a PhD from the University of Newcastle (2020) for her project “Theatre, autopathography and the medicalised self: imaging health from the shadows of illness.” She has contributed extensively to the arts sector as an educator, curator, and mentor, actively supporting the development of emerging artists and contemporary practice in the Hunter region and beyond.