Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro

Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro use their artistic practice as a tool to help locate themselves within the systems employed by contemporary society. The pair believe that the central motif of our age is the tension created between the Primacy of the Individual and the Social Contract that is subscribed to through our complex, global inter-dependancy. The formal and informal systems that our collective society utilises both supports and constricts the individuals that comprise the organisation.

The collaboration reconfigures and juxtaposes elements of the biological, the historic, the cultural and the astronomical to create artworks that help decipher who we are and what we have gained and forfeited in order to realise our present existence.

 Their work has been included in exhibitions in Belgium, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Turkey, Taiwan, the UK and the USA.

Career Highlights include solo exhibitions at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; The Art Gallery of New South Wales; La bf15, Lyon; The Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC and a survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.  Their installation Life Span was part of the 53rd Venice Biennale. They have also participated in the Auckland Triennial, the Adelaide Biennial, Setouchi Triennial and the Oku-Noto Triennial, Japan.

The City of Sydney commissioned their public work Cloud Nation which is located in the Green Square Library Tower.  In 2022 they won the AGNSW’s  Sulman Prize and their public art commission, Place of the Eels was installed in Parramatta Square.  There latest public work Magic Circle is located at 1 Elizabeth Street, Martin Place.