Dr Peta Clancy
Dr Peta Clancy
Dr Peta Clancy
Associate Dean, Indigenous Senior Lecturer, Fine Art
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Dr Peta Clancy is a descendant of the Yorta Yorta people with Indian, Irish and English heritage. She is a visual artist living and working on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung Country in Naarm (Melbourne).
In 2025, she was awarded major funding from the Visual Arts, Craft and Design Framework (VACDF) from Creative Australia to develop and realise the exhibition project 'From both sides of the river' at La Trobe Art Institute (LAI) on DJAARA (Bendigo). The exhibition is being developed in collaboration with Lorraine Brigdale and co-curated by Amelia Wallin and Jacqui Shelton and will open in February 2027.
Clancy’s artwork has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Gadigal Country in 'The National' (2019), and at the National Gallery of Victoria on Wurundjeri Country in 'Melbourne Now' for the exhibition 'Slippery Images' (2023) curated by Maggie Finch.
In 2023, she was commissioned to create the installation 'birrarung ba brungergalk' for the exhibition 'The Soils Project' at TarraWarra Museum of Art on Wurundjeri Country. This photographic installation was restaged for 'The Soils Project' at the Van Abbemuseum, the Netherlands in 2024.
Clancy has artwork in significant public and private collections including Artbank; Art Gallery of Ballarat; Bendigo Art Gallery; Centre for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, US; Darebin City Council; Deakin University Collection; Koorie Heritage Trust; Merri-bek City Council; Monash University Museum of Art; Museum of Australian Photography; National Gallery of Victoria; National Museum of Australia; Parliament House Australia; and TarraWarra Museum of Art.
In 2018, Clancy was awarded the Fostering Koorie Art and Culture Grant from the Koorie Heritage Trust, which culminated in the major exhibition Undercurrent (2019) at the Koorie Heritage Trust Gallery on Wurundjeri Country. Clancy is represented by Dominik Mersch Gallery, Gadigal Country (Sydney).
Photo by Matthew Stanton.
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