Bush Dance by Claire Foxton (2025)
Commissioned by Brookfield Properties for 11 Mounts Bay
An energetic and painterly ode to the bush, this work seeks to bring a slice of Australiana to the cityscape. Featuring a number ofendemic Eucalyptus species from Perth’s surrounding landscape, the design captures the energy and joy of nature, softening the adjoining architecture with organic shapes and gestural painterly techniques. Realistic interpretations of flowering gums draw the eye, but the application of paint itself and the works abstract qualities are intended to be of equal interest.
About the artist:
Claire Foxton is an Australian artist and designer based in Wollongong NSW. She is known for her large-scale murals found across Australia, New Zealand and the United States.
Claire attained a Bachelor of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong in 2009, majoring in Graphic Design & Visual Arts. Alongside a successful career in graphic design, Claire painted her first mural in 2016, falling in love with the physicality and scale of mural painting. She has been invited to street art festivals and group shows globally and has worked for a broad range of clientele across Australia’s public and private sectors.
At the forefront of all of Claire’s work is a deep understanding of colour, texture and form and a desire to leave intact the story of its process. Much of her work blurs the line between analogue and digital processes, often beginning in one place and ending in the other.
With a distinctive mix of abstract and photorealistic techniques, Claire’s painted mural works explore a site-specific narrative often concerned with the connectedness of people and place.
Claire also maintains studio practice, working predominantly in acrylics, pencil and pastel. Her smaller works explore a more personal narrative, often within themes of matrescence, duality and identity.