Lismore
Claudie Frock is a socially-engaged, multidisciplinary artist, community engagement specialist, creative mentor, educator, access advocate and collaborator, based in the Northern Rivers of NSW on Bundjalung Land.
Her expansive practice spans botanical pigment research, painting, expanded-drawing, soft-form sculpture, collage, and site-responsive installation, performance, and writing. As someone directly affected by climate disaster, her work is grounded in ecology, community, and the interconnectedness of human, non-human and more-than-human relationships.
Claudie works from her home studio in Georgica and The Outpost Studio [ARI], focusing on slow sustainable material processes and locally embedded practices. She creates pigments from foraged plants, lichens, exploring transformation and ecological cycles. Collaboration and care are central to her approach. Notable projects include Walk Draw Map, a participatory drawing initiative co-led with artist René Bolten across 11 community groups, and Gather her solo exhibition at Grafton Regional Gallery, which showcased locally sourced handmade botanical inks and expanded-drawing processes.
She holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Art and Ecology from NCAD, Dublin, Ireland, a Bachelor of Visual Arts with Honours, a Diploma of Secondary Education from Southern Cross University, and a Certificate II in Auslan from NSW TAFE. Claudie spent over a decade as Community Engagement Officer at Lismore Regional Gallery, leading creative recovery and community arts programs. In 2022, she developed The Collage Club, a post-flood creative recovery initiative that received a Museums & Galleries NSW Imagine Award for Innovation & Resilience, and she continues this work via her collective community collage project Let’s Stick Together, engaging with a broad range of community members, groups and organisations and running monthly community drop in sessions at The Outpost Studio in Lismore.
Her most recent solo exhibition Gather (2024) was a site-responsive work exploring sustainable foraging and collaborative engagement with the land through botanical pigment making and drawing, this project focused on multiple sites, including the Lismore Community Garden, the banks of the Breimba river (Clarence River in both Central and South Grafton) on Bundjalung and Gumbayngirr Countries. In 2023 and 2025, she undertook international residencies at The Watershed Art Studio in Galway, Ireland, deepening her pigment research and ecological inquiry, as well as undertaking a Postgraduate Certificate in Art and Ecology at the NCAD, Dublin, Ireland; continuing to evolve her practice committed to sustainability, environmental stewardship, climate camaraderie, and place-based collaboration.
Claudie offers botanical pigment and ink making and collage workshops, as well as creative mentoring and arts consultation as part of her practice.
