Catherine Clover’s multidisciplinary practice addresses communication
through voice and language and the interplay between hearing/listening and
seeing/reading. Using field recording, digital imaging and the spoken/written word
she is exploring an expanded approach to language within species and across species
through a framework of everyday experience. With listening as a key focus and the
complexity of the urban as a shared sonic space, the artworks prompt transmission
and reception through the fluidity, instability and mobility of voicing and
languaging. The artworks are social in nature and frequently involve collaboration
and participation with other artists as well as with audiences. The artworks take
several forms including texts/scores, soundworks, installations, external public
artworks, readings, radio, live performance, readings and artist books. Brought up
in London, she moved to Melbourne through an arts residency with Gertrude
Contemporary in the 1990s. Exhibiting and performing within Australia and
internationally, she teaches at Swinburne University (MA Writing) Melbourne, and
holds a practice led PhD (Fine Art) through RMIT University.
