Clare Patrick, South Africa / United Kingdom / France
Clare Patrick Clare Patrick is an independent curator and writer working with artists who engage sound, installation and transdisciplinary practice.
Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, she focuses on transnational collaboration and spatial intervention as a methodology for decolonial curating. Clare is the 2025 AWARE Marie-Solanges Apollon research award laureate. L'AiR Arts residency alumna, since 2020 Clare has worked in a curatorial capacity for L’AiR Arts and has been coordinating the international group programs since 2024. Previously, Clare was a 2023-24 Curatorial Fellow at NXTHVN, USA, Exhibitions Manager and Curator at Norval Foundation in Cape Town, and taught histories of Photography at Paris College of Art. She is the Art Director for No! Wahala Magazine, a publication focused on celebrating contemporary African photography, and works as an Art Editor for SAAG Anthology, a dissident literary publication for global solidarities. Her work has been featured in Art Throb, No! Wahala Magazine, Contemporary And, Vogue Magazine, The New York Times and The Art Newspaper. |