Claire Fletcher, Red Light District (Indicative), 2024. Image Courtesy Of The Artist
Claire Fletcher
Chutespace
Friday 24 January - Sunday 16 February
Opening Thursday 23 January 2024, 6pm - 8pm
Red Light District (2025) presents a mass-produced inflatable adult doll contorted within the display space. Put on display for public consumption and scrutiny, the explicit female figure becomes a literal embodiment of objectification. By positioning the work within the former library return book chute, the installation interrogates the historical codification of women as objects within both art and literature, reinforcing the interplay between power, vulnerability, agency and desire.
Fletcher's work emphasises the tension between empowerment and exploitation in contemporary culture. By employing this exaggerated representation of the female form paired with confrontational posing, she provokes discomfort and reflection, urging the audience to confront their own gaze and complicity in perpetuating these societal norms.
About the Artist
Claire Fletcher, 2025. Image Courtesy of Greg Stoodley
Claire Fletcher is a visual artist practicing on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, ACT, Australia. Working across painting, photography and print-media, Fletcher explores the possibilities of traditional mediums in the contemporary space.
Fletcher is completing her Bachelor of Visual Arts at the Australian National University (ACT). Recent exhibitions include ANU SOA&D Grad Show 2024 (2024), Immaterial 3.0 (2023) and View 2021 (2021). Her work resides in both domestic and international private collections.
About Chutespace
In November 2013 the former Griffith Library after-hours book-returns chute was transformed by Jeffree Skewes and Kerry Shepherdson, into a distinctive miniature exhibition space named CHUTESPACE.
CHUTESPACE is an artist run initiative and continues to be voluntarily curated and managed. Artists of all genres can apply for an exhibition.
Mini exhibitions are featured for four-week periods in line with the M16 main gallery exhibition periods.
All artist proposals are considered, and exhibitions are free to the artist.
