Curiosity Shop is more relaxed exhibition than Claire’s previous show Academia. It includes new works on cradled wood boards, some stockroom favourites, and a range of other items including watercolours, anthologies, postcards and zines.

​Join Claire for on the opening night on Wednesday 26^th August from 6 – 8pm,
for drinks supplied by Yulli’s brews.

Claire’s work explores themes such as sustainability, natural history and her identity as an Asian Australian.  ​Recently Claire has been…

• invited to show three of her paintings at N. Smith Gallery for its Lunar New Year show.
• shortlisted for the Hope Prize, with her short fiction to be published in a Simon & Schuster anthology.
• included among the finalists for the Burwood Art Prize.
• commissioned to create a custom artwork for the horror writer Katya de Becerra’s upcoming novel Little Kin.
• selected for the Gallery Lane Cove Winter Salon with her largest ever painting.
• included among the finalists for the Infuse Art Prize alongside her collaborator Lexi Markovic.
• selected to show three of her paintings at Willoughby Council’s Homegrown: Surface Tension show.  

​As an artist, her artwork ‘All Monsters Are Real’ won the Reused/Recycled Materials Award in the 2023 Reimagine Art Prize. The same piece, a skateboard deck that imitates a Ming dynasty scroll, was a finalist for the 2023 National Emerging Art Prize and a finalist in the 2024 North Sydney Art Prize.

​Claire’s artwork ‘Specimens’ – 26 miniature paintings of moths and butterflies painted onto entirely reused or recycled materials – won the People’s Choice in City of Ryde’s Sustainable Waste to Art Prize 2024.

​​Claire exhibits work alongside other artists of the Wet Paint Collective around Sydney’s Inner West. 

Open daily from 10am to 6:30pm

​​More of Claire’s artworks can be viewed at;  https://www.clairelow.com