Claire Conroy is an Australian artist using unique photographic techniques to create evocative contemporary images. In an era when most photography is taking place in the digital realm, Conroy’s work involves the use of analogue photographic processes, such as the camera obscura, pinhole photography and lensless image making techniques.

Conroy constructs images from found objects, scanners and her own hand crafted pinhole cameras from everyday objects, including a 1950s caravan, a water tank and a three tonne truck. She uses these devices to expose images of the Australian landscape onto photographic paper, creating large scale negatives that reflect Romantic melancholic notions of the landscape and our impact upon it. She develops these negatives using common household supplies and natural substances. Conroy’s works are enigmatic and haunting interpretations of the physical world, reflections on nature, land and people.

Her photographic practice extends to installation where the caravan camera obscura becomes a device to reinterpret landscapes in a playful and immersive way. Within the camera obscura the installations tap into and twist the historic realms of travelling curiosities, Renaissance drawing techniques and the historic carnival of the scientific roadshow.

Conroy’s works have been collected by the NSW State Library, the National Gallery of Australia, the Powerhouse Museum and in private collections across Australia. She is currently working as an artist and gallery educator in Northern NSW.