Rebecca Barclay-Clist is an artist and art educator based in lower Northland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, with over 25 years of experience in the arts. She began her creative journey studying ceramic art at the Dunedin School of Art, earning her degree in 1995, followed by a postgraduate diploma in secondary teaching in 1996. She started teaching in 1997 while maintaining an active artistic practice. In 2014, she formally established her art practice, consistently producing work for galleries and annual exhibitions.
In particular, her creative practice examines the spiritual world within a societal context – critically engaging the artist as a voice of faith.
Her work seeks to directly address perceptions of deity within the context of our social constructs, often addressing the challenge of change and life codes that have shifted, employing a quiet voice of personal truth that manifests through a range of wet and dry media. Symbolism and metaphor are employed, but the intention is that the viewer may go beyond the limitations of these and search for a deeper or higher truth.
Barclay-Clist has exhibited in a solo and group capacity across New Zealand and her work has been well received and procured from exhibited work and a number of independent commissions within New Zealand and abroad. She resides in Northland where she has a studio and regularly prepares artwork to show.
