Claire Hurley
Affiliation: Independent Artist
Claire Hurley is an Irish artist, born in Limerick whose multidisciplinary practice sits at the intersection of ritual, ecology, and material inquiry. Her work explores relationships between land, history, and collective care through expanded sculpture, photography, and site-responsive practices.
Hurley holds a BA in Archaeology (UCG), a Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Ecology (NCAD), and is currently completing an MFA at LSAD.
My practice centres on embodied and performative acts of making, employing slow, repetitive processes such as foraging, weaving, hand-stitching, binding, and mending.
Working with natural and found materials, I address themes of ecological vulnerability, climate anxiety, and our relationship to landscape. Ritual and ceremonial actions are central to my work, creating spaces for reflection, resilience, and reconnection.
Impermanence and cyclical change are central to my practice. Organic materials are returned to the land after use, resisting permanence and acknowledging decay as a generative force.