Clare Rae is a photographer and artist working in Melbourne, Australia. She explores feminism through photographing women’s bodies in a performative and awkward way in hopes of showing the the dominant modes of representation.

She visited Jersey in 2017 where she research Claude Cahun, produced new material, and ran workshops as a part of the Archisle international artist-in-residence programme. Rae created a series called “Never standing on two feet” which featured some of Jerseys beautiful landscapes as Clare considered Cahun’s engagement with with the physical and cultural environment of Jersey. The project was exhibited in Melbourne at Centre for Contemporary Photography as Entre Nous: Claude Cahun and Clare Rae from 22 March – 6 May 2018, and then in Jersey at CCA Galleries from 7–28 September 2018.

“Like Cahun’s, my photographs depict my body in relation to place; in these instances sites of coastal geography and Jersey’s Neolithic ritual monuments. I enact a visual dialogue between the body and these environments, and test how their photographic histories impact upon contemporary engagements.”

– Clare Rae about ‘Never standing on two feet’

NEVER STANDING ON TWO FEET