Aaron Claringbold is an emerging interdisciplinary artist currently based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Creating works that are predominantly photo-based, his practice focuses on land, land use, ecology and human presence within modern day Australia. In particular, he looks to explore the ways in which human impact and ideologies have shaped conceptions of ‘the bush’ and nature since colonisation, feeding nationalistic identities around place.
Reflecting on his positionality as a settler-descendant white Australian, Aaron is inspired by writers, thinkers, and artists making work that confronts the entanglement of ecocide and genocide, and the social process that engender them. He has a particular interest in practices that centre place-based bonding and responsibility, and that complicate the myriad of essentialisms underpinning the Australian Colonial Project.
Aaron also works collaboratively with Rebecca McCauley.
Living and working on unceded Wurundjeri and Boonwurung land.
News
Currently in Residence at the RMIT Photo Futures Lab with Rebecca McCauley
Participant in The Camera as Political Apparatus : an Unromantic Take on Documentary Practice online workshop with
Hero(es) showing as part of recess presents at ACE open
8 May - 28 Jul
Upcoming
Leisuretime 1 as part of Next Wave 2020 (Postponed) with Rebecca McCauley
Artist in Residence at Atelier Noua in Bodø, Norway June 2021 (Postponed)
Online
Live From the Field 2 KINGS Artist-Run
Der Grief Artist Feature and Guest Blog
Phases Magazine