MPavilion Opening November 2020

Clare McCracken

Clare McCracken is a Melbourne-based, socially engaged artist and PhD candidate at RMIT University. She is the recipient of a prestigious Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship. Clare’s practice includes large-scale immersive installations, fine art objects and contemporary performance works. She works site-specifically, across disciplines and collaboratively with other artists and community to create works that interrogate contemporary social, political and environmental issues from an Australian perspective. Clare has created over thirty temporary public artworks for sites across Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart, including Federation Square and Cockatoo Island. This year her work was exhibited as part of the Bienal de La Habana, Cuba.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.