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Up North
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​Claire McArdle, Coming Home, 2017, 155x170x270mm, Icelandic Wolfish skin, sterling silver, leather lining, polyurethane, thread. Photo: Claire McArdle
Map reference number: 68
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Gallerysmith Project Space
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170–174 Abbotsford St,
​North Melbourne 


31 August – 18 September
Thu–Sat 11am–5pm

Opening: Sat 2 September, 4–6pm
Artist/s: Claire McArdle

Up North is a diary through objects of the time Claire McArdle spent as a resident artist in Blönduós, Iceland.

The works will investigate how the people influence the landscape and how the landscape influences the people.

Why do you always see sheep in threes? 
How do you souvenir a mountain?
What is a blueberry?

Her research investigates the essential needs for human existence in a climactically harsh environment, how the souvenir relates to landscape and how human demand and location influences the idea of the 'blueberry'.

Local materials including fish skin and Icelandic wool which Claire dyed from plants in the Blönduós area are utilised in the work.


a. Claire McArdle, Rapid Growth, brooch, 2017, Icelandic wool dyed with rhubarb roots, white yarrow and purple flower, sterling silver. 75X85x24mm. Photo: Claire McArdle
b. Claire McArdle, Námafjall mountain, 2017, raised copper, tiger eye, marble, camel agate, petrified wood, epoxy, brass. 220X390x380mm. Photo: Claire McArdle


About the Artist

Claire McArdle has held ten solo exhibitions including three this year, two overseas in Estonia and Germany and her exhibition Up North which travelled to Gray Street Workshop, Adelaide and The Lost Ones Gallery, Ballarat. Her work has been exhibited in Thailand, Hong Kong, USA, UK, Germany, France, Estonia, Austria and The Netherlands. She has undertaken residencies in Australia, Mexico, Iceland and Estonia. She won first prize at Contemporary Wearables '13 and the National Contemporary Jewellery Award in 2016. She curated an exhibition of 31 Australian and Estonian artists, presented in Melbourne and Tallinn. She is Co-Director of Radiant Pavilion.

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