Gallery ArtistsClare Belfrage

Clare Belfrage has maintained a distinguished arts practice for over 35 years. Her detailed and complex glass drawings on blown glass forms reflect the high-level skill and innovative approach to her craft that makes her one of Australia’s most renowned artists in this medium. Inspired by nature and its various rhythms and energies, Belfrage‘s unique sculptural objects express her fine attention to detail, a fascination with pattern and rhythm and deep connection to the natural world.

Belfrage has received several prestigious awards including the inaugural JamFactory FUSE Glass Prize in 2016 and the Tom Malone Glass Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia in 2005 and 2011. She was the featured artist for the 2018 SALA Festival and celebrated as one of South Australia’s most influential artists working in a craft medium through JamFactory’s Icon series, presenting a solo exhibition, A Measure of Time, for a 3-year Australian national tour. She was most recently winner of the inaugural Premio Arteria for the Venice Glass Week HUB Exhibition, Italy, in 2025.

Belfrage continues to exhibit extensively and is represented in major public collections throughout Australia, the US and Europe including National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, most State Galleries in Australia, Corning Museum of Glass, USA, Tacoma Museum of Glass, USA, Toledo Museum of Art, USA, Peabody Essex Museum, USA, Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Denmark, Castello Sforzesco Museum, Italy, Lette Glasmuseum, Germany and the Nijima Glass Museum, Japan.

She is currently Adjunct Professor at Adelaide University.