CLAUDIA MUNRO





Screen
2021 -
  1. A Performance of the Social Fabric
  2. Moonless Night
  3. BLESS YOUR HEART
  4. MERGE
  5. snob
  6. A Watery Commons


Physical
2020 -  
  1. Making Art Felt Like Lying, So I Cut Hair Like My Mother Instead
  2. The Labour of Emotions, The Emotions of Textiles
  3. Lineage Found in Lambs
  4. A Trial and Error of the Social Carpet
  5. Dear Sweden, Give Me My Bones Back
  6. Overlap
  7. Various Posters


Written
2023 -
  1. BLESS YOUR HEART text
  2. Bread and Butter text
  3. The Labour of Emotions, The Emotions of Textiles interviews
  4. Kiss your friends (and tell them you love them) text
  5. Liminality text
  6. Why Dig A Tunnel When You Could Build A Bridge? text




Info
  1. Hello/hej! I am an artist/designer from New Zealand/Sweden interested in the edges – where creative practices overlap and what can be made from the in between. 


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1. Making Art Felt Like Lying, So I Cut Hair Like My Mother Instead



2025
Installation
Cut and collected hair, various hardware, string, 
stolen metal sheet, vintage lamps, paper, secondhand frame, glass vase, lilies




For one year I cut and collected my friends hair. My hands worked a job that benefitted them in a practical, needed, useful way. The same way as my parents and grandparents hands had done in their respective jobs over the years before me. I do not come from a family of academics or artists, but rather builders and hairdressers. This work is a validation of them. To bring them into the white cube gallery. To create a space of domesticity - with a fragrant bunch of lilies in the corner - just as they have done for me. That will have to do art, that will just have to do.