Claire Field is an Australian curator and artist based in Sydney Australia. Claire values broader discussions about value systems within the arts, emphasising care, ethics, and the social functions of contemporary art practices. She was the co-founder of the collaborative project
Favour Economy
', with Bronwyn Treacy and Alexandra Pedley, an subsequect co leaders Stella Chen and MX Tonié Field. ''Favour Economy'' was a digital platform for women artists and industry peers to share their experiences with others through an "audio favour". The project began in 2015 and produced 5 volumes, which were published annually as a podcast and online. In 2021 Claire Field and Stella Chen wrote the chapter
Sharing Alternative Value in the Arts
' for Jacqueline Millner and Gretchen Coombs boo
''Care Ethics and Art''
published by

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. This chapter discusses the overlapping, varied, and conflicting perceptions of value shared to the project, and explore how these can inform alternative ethical frameworks that care for and value women working in the arts. ''Favour Economy'' was a participant in the
Doing Feminism; Sharing the World
' residency program (curated by Anne Marsh and Caroline Phillips), and the Aesthetics, Politics and Histories: The Social Context of Art 201
AAANZ Conference
at

RMIT School of Art The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-o ...

. Volume 1 (2015–2016) and Volume 2 (2016–2017) of the ''Favour Economy'' archives were installed as a participatory installation at

George Paton Gallery The George Paton Gallery is the first institutionally supported experimental art space in Australia. Established in 1975 as the Ewing and George Paton Gallery, it is run by the University of Melbourne Student Union, on the University of Melbourn ...

, Melbourne an
AIRspace Projects
Sydney (2017), with Volumes 1, 2 and 3 exhibited at

Museum of Contemporary Art Australia The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), formerly the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, is located on George Street, Sydney, George Street in The Rocks, Sydney, The Rocks neighbourhood of Sydney. The museum is housed in the Stripped Cl ...

(MCA) ARTBA
''Things We Do Together''
curated by

Lara Merrett Lara Merrett (born 1971) is an Australian visual artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung/ or ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most-popul ...

in Sydney 2019, and again as a participatory sound installation as part of International Women's Day at the MCA in 2020. Field co-curated, with Tian Zhang, the exhibition
Site of Passage
', at

Customs House A custom house or customs house was traditionally a building housing the offices for a jurisdictional government whose officials oversaw the functions associated with importing and exporting goods into and out of a country, such as collecting ...

, NSW, in 2019. The exhibition included the work of nine contemporary Australian artists; Atong Atem, Cigdem Aydemir, Anindita Banerjee, Liam Benson, Vonda Keji, Nikki Lam, Nicole Monks,

Raquel Ormella Raquel Ormella (born 1969) is an Australian artist focusing on multimedia works such as posters, banners, videography and needlework. Ormella’s work has been showcased in many exhibitions in galleries and museums, including the Shepparton Ar ...

and Christian Thompson who each investigate aspects of who they are in their work and through this process claim parts of themselves that may have been complicated or obscured by colonisation, displacement or migration. ''Site of Passage'' referenced the history of the

as a place of cross-cultural interaction as the point of immigration into Sydney for over 140 years and acknowledges that Warrane (Circular Quay) was the site of first contact between the

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and the British, a moment in time that led to the invasion of Aboriginal land and the dispossession of Aboriginal people and their cultures. In Field's practice as a visual artist, she exhibited work as part of the

RMIT University The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (abbreviated as RMIT University) is a public research university located in the city of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia., section 4(b) Established in 1887 by Francis Ormond, it is the seventh-o ...

VVitchVVaVVe
Post Digital Aesthetics Symposium''(2018 curated by Nancy Mauro-Flude and Tom Penney) and has held two solo exhibitions at

Salamanca Arts Centre The Salamanca Arts Centre (SAC), established in 1976, is a major arts hub in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. It is a combination of theatres, galleries and arts administration located behind the historic facade of Georgian warehouses in Salamanca Pl ...

, Hobart: 2002 Kelly's Garden, curated by Arjan Kok, and 2005 Cluster Obscurer.

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