cath clover

My multidisciplinary practice addresses communication through voice, language and the interplay between hearing/listening, seeing/reading. Using field recording, digital imaging and the spoken/written word I explore an expanded approach to language within 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 and with audiences. They take several forms including texts/scores, sound, installations, sound walks, performance, readings, external public artworks.
Brought up in London UK I arrived in Naarm/Melbourne Australia, on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation, as visiting artist through Gertrude Contemporary in the 1990s. My work has been exhibited and performed regularly both within Australia and internationally since the 90s. I teach in Naarm/Melbourne at Swinburne University (MA Writing), RMIT University (MA Public Art) and holds a practice led PhD (Fine Art) through RMIT University.