Clare Jaque Vasquez

Deluge

2024, Acrylic and impasto on canvas, 200cm (h) x 200cm (w).

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"A memory wrapped, bundled and carried with my grandmother was the deluge in the mid 2000’s. A creek that connects to the Mookai and Namoi rose on Gomeroi Country. My grandmother never believed it would rise as far as it did. It was too soon for a big one. The deluge swept away all but one of my grandmothers artworks."

Clare Jaque Vasquez is an Indigenous artist from Gomeroi and Kamilaroi Nation. Born to a Gomeroi mother and Welsh father, Clare grew up in Sydney and moved back on Country in community in a small town near Tamworth. Clare now works from a studio based on Bindal & Wulgurukaba Country in north QLD. Clare’s works capture stories and weaving practices in a raised textural form leveraging natural art tools to apply texture. These tools include different natural brushes, branches and sticks through to palm tree fibres and are specifically used to connect the works with country. Clare works in layers to embed and protect stories by weaving with paint and uniquely concocted textual mediums which appear to be etched, embedded and scarred onto the canvas. The process of creating the mixed-media, textural works is timely and can take up to 7-12 weeks to complete.

 

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