With 20+ years’ experience as a practicing artist and trauma-informed yoga teacher, Claire creates paintings, sculptures, and creative tools that invite reflection, ritual, and flow. Her work bridges fine art and creative wellbeing, offering experiences that reconnect audiences to inspiration, curiosity, and their own creative cycles.
Whether through large-scale artworks, intimate creative tools, or myth-inspired storytelling, Claire’s practice is guided by awe, curiosity, and the belief that creativity can be sacred, restorative, and transformative.
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About
Claire Lefebvre (she/her) lives and works on Wurundjeri Land in Naarm/Melbourne, australia. She has held numerous solo exhibitions in Naarm, Regional Victoria and Sydney since 2013, and has been included in group exhibitions in Melbourne, Albany (WA), Regional Victoria and Sydney since 2009. She holds a Masters of Fine Art (with Distinction) from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (2014) and a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting) from Monash University (2006).
Claire has been a finalist in the National Emerging Art Prize, OMNIA Art Prize, Hornsby Art Prize, Albany Art Prize, and M Collection Award and in 2014 won the RMIT Alumni Award. She has completed directed and self-directed artist residencies in Barcelona (ESP), Naarm / Melbourne (AUS), Merimbula (AUS) and was Artist-in-Residence and program participant with collaborator Zoltan Fecso for the Winter Wild Festival in Apollo Bay (AUS) in 2021 and 2022. In 2023 Claire and Zoltan launched their ongoing project 'What Artists Eat'. Most recently, her latest solo exhibition “Mythic Ground: New Stories for Old Lands” was held in 2025.
Buying artwork can feel like a right of passage. My artworks are created slowly, by hand, using archival materials, months of layering and over 20 years of research and development.
My work isn’t designed to “match” a space, it’s designed to deepen it. The pieces are not just wall décor, they are companions for life. See them as future heirlooms.
Payment plans are always available to make collecting paintings a gentler and more supportive experience.
Not all works are large and many sculptures and smaller pieces are designed for shelves, desks, and intimate corners. Larger works often become the centrepiece that transforms a room.
When you purchase, you’ll receive simple guidance for hanging or placing each piece.
Many collectors begin with a smaller piece to live with. When the right work calls to you, larger pieces become anchor points for both your space and personal story.
You need art that feeds you.
For me, art isn’t a luxury, it’s a lifeblood. Every piece I create is made to bring the sacred back into your everyday space. Transform your space with a piece that speaks to you.
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Claire Lefebvre (b. Naarm / Melbourne 1984)
Education
Master of Fine Art, with Distinction. RMIT University (2014)
Bachelor of Visual Art. Monash University (2006)
Selected Additional Education
Mentoring for Gifts: Nature’s Apprentice / Claire Dunn and Jon Young (2023)
Trauma-Informed Yoga & Embodied Social Change, Yoga for Humankind, 100 hours (2021)
Introduction to Yin Yoga, Yoga Australia, 50 hours (2017)
Gita International Gold Diploma of Yoga Teaching, 900 + hours (2007)
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Exhibitions
Solo Shows
Mythic Ground: New Stories for Old Lands, FLUFF HQ, Collingwood. Melbourne (2025)
‘Lush Layer Light’, ODCE. Melbourne (2018)
‘Awe Is What Moves Us Forward', Alternating Current Art Space. Melbourne (2017)
'United States of Curiosity‘, Red Gallery. Melbourne (2016)
‘Luminous Numinous‘, Tinning Street. Melbourne (2016)
‘Claire Lefebvre – New Work’, Sidecar Gallery. Melbourne (2013)
Selected Group Shows
National Emerging Art Prize - Finalists Exhibition, The Garden Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney (2025)
OMNIA Art Prize, Melbourne VIC (2024)
‘Coast to Coast’, Saint Cloche, Paddington, NSW (2022)
‘Valley’, with Zoltan Fecso, The Project Space, Apollo Bay, VIC (2022)
St Kevin’s Art Show, Melbourne, VIC (2019)
Ode to Elma / Surface 122 Pop Up Showroom. Melbourne VIC (2017)
‘Commencement - Gloss over Rawness', WestEnd Art Space. Melbourne (2017)
'Red Stocking', Red Gallery. Melbourne VIC (2016)
‘Hornsby Art Prize’, Wallarobba Arts and Cultural Centre. Hornsby NSW (2015)
‘Albany Art Prize’, Carol Petterson Hall. Albany WA (2015)
‘For the Love of Colour’, Gallerysmith Project Space. Melbourne VIC (2015)
‘Frank Society’, Conduit Gallery. Melbourne VIC (2014)
RMIT MFA Graduate Exhibition, Melbourne VIC (2014)
‘Real Delirium’, N/A Gallery. Melbourne VIC 2014)
‘M Collection Award’, (Shortlisted), Gallerysmith. Melbourne VIC (2014)
‘Abstraction’, 100th Gallery. Melbourne VIC (2012)
‘Art Town 2012’, Stonnington Council. Melbourne VIC (2012)
‘Expressions’, Malvern Town Hall. Melbourne VIC (2012)
‘Belle Arti’ Prize, Chapman & Bailey. Melbourne VIC (2009)
‘Postcards from Tomorrow’, Toyota Community Spirit Gallery. Melbourne VIC (2008)
Monash University Bachelor of Visual Art Graduate Exhibition. Melbourne VIC (2005)
‘We Don’t All Paint’, Monash University. Melbourne VIC (2004)
‘Friends of Romania’, Villa Maria. Melbourne VIC (2003)
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Prizes
National Emerging Art Prize, Finalist (2025)
OMNIA Art Prize, Finalist (2024)
St. Kevin’s Art Prize, Finalist (2019)
Hornsby Art Prize, Finalist (2015)
Albany Art Prize, Finalist (2015)
RMIT Alumni Award, Winner (2014)
M Collection Award, Finalist (2014)
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Commissions & Collections
Emera Law, Melbourne
Melbourne Indie Voices, Melbourne
Foster Nicholson Lawyers, Melbourne
Westminster Lawyers, Melbourne
Various Private Collections (Australia, Europe and UK)
Residencies, Festivals, Facilitation & Speaking
Art Incursion at Brunswick East Primary School (2024)
Group Facilitator “Creative Practice”, Melbourne University CCC x Breakfast Club, Melbourne VIC (2024)
Panel host and facilitator ‘Pantry Study: Multicultural Melbourne’, North Gallery, Melbourne VIC (2024)
Live Interview with musician Francesca Gonzales, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC (2022)
Live Interview with musician Yeo, Testing Grounds, Melbourne VIC (2022)
What Artists Eat Podcast with Zoltan Fecso (2023 ongoing)
Winter Wild Festival Public Artwork (Soundwalks with Zoltan Fecso), Apollo Bay, VIC (2022)
Back Lake Residency, Merimbula, NSW (2022)
Winter Wild Festival Artist in Residence, Apollo Bay, VIC (2021)
Terazza del Sol Residency, Barcelona, Spain. (2011)
MFA Symposium. Major Project Presentation. RMIT School of Art and LaSalle College of the Arts, Melbourne (2014)