The Percivals 2026

About the Artwork

My intent with this portrait was to capture the truth of the human condition, as evident in the work of Clare Llewelyn, and to present the artist’s portrait as a mirror of her work. Claire is an accomplished, nationally exhibited sculptor and a fierce storyteller, shaping narratives from the fragile to the forceful. Her work explores the relationships between people, objects, memory, and emotion—the quiet feelings that linger beneath experience. Through welded dark and white steel and gathered remnants, she transforms found materials into metaphors, allowing form to speak where words fall short. Domestic utensils and industrial debris are held in deliberate tension, tracing womanhood, grief, and the passage of life. This portrait is photographed in natural light and left unaltered, the texture, the evidence of time, her strength lives in what has been lived, not concealed, mirroring the honesty of her sculptures. The portrait is an act of respect.

About the Artist

Christine Hall is a professional photographer based on the Sunshine Coast, specialising in documenting artwork for gallery exhibitions, archival documentation, reproduction, flat lay, and promotion. Her portraiture focuses on revealing individuality through a thoughtful use of medium, style, and setting. In 2025, she won National First Prize for The Studio Project, a photographic book of portraits celebrating artists of the Sunshine Coast.

Selected other achievements include Highly Commended for the International Monochrome Awards (2025), Finalist for the Head on Foundation Prize (2025), Winner of RQAS Photography Prize (2024), Finalist for the Sunshine Coast Contemporary Art Prize (2024), Finalist for the Percival Portrait Prize (2024), Finalist for the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (2023).