Clare Dyson

Clare is the Director of the Adobe Creative Campus at RMIT and is a researcher, academic and creative practitioner. Her film works have been screened nationally and internationally and she has toured performance and installation works throughout Australia, Europe and America. Clare’s work crosses disciplinary forms and she has been the Artist-In-Resident at prestigious venues in the US, Berlin, Paris, Canberra and Brisbane including Cité des Arts in Paris, Tanzfabrik in Berlin and Djerassi in the US. In 1996 Clare co-founded and curated Brisbane’s first interdisciplinary performance space The Crab Room Performance Space. She was awarded a New Media grant in 1997 to research interdisciplinary performance work with artist Rachael Jennings and composer Damian Barbeler and in 1998 she formed Dyson Industries with brother and lighting designer Mark Dyson, focusing on creating new experimental dance performance.

Clare has received numerous choreographic prizes, grants, Fellowships and residencies in Australia and throughout the world including the Australia Council's Cite des Arts Fellowship (Paris), the Djerrassi Fellowship (US), Tanzfabrk (Berlin) and an Australian Choreographic Centre Fellowship. In 2006 she won the Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance. Clare was also shortlisted for Best Choreography in 2006 and was shortlisted again in 2009 for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Dance. She completed her PhD in on audience engagement in dance in 2010 and has been creating immersive solo works since 2011 in a variety of venues and festivals. In 2018 she premiered the dance installation ALONE TOGETHER that was shortlisted at the Australian Dance awards. Her most recent work, With me, is an interactive sound work was premiered at the Abbotsford Convent and allows audience to engage with stories from the general public about alone-ness and loneliness. Clare is currently collaborating with performer and crochet artist Arun Munoz on a new work Tojedor, a gentle public protest of the toxic masculinity enforced on men (of all ages) via engaging in public acts of design crafts. Clare is currently an Associate Professor at RMIT and the Director of the RMIT Adobe Creative Campus.