ABOUT ME
Claire Engkaninan Low, or just Claire Low, is a Sydney-based artist and writer living on Cammeraygal land.
Claire's work explores themes such as sustainability, natural history and her identity as an Asian Australian.
In 2026 Claire has been...
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invited to show three of her paintings at N. Smith Gallery for its Lunar New Year show.
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shortlisted for the Hope Prize, with her short fiction to be published in a Simon & Schuster anthology.
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included among the finalists for the Burwood Art Prize.
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commissioned to create a custom artwork for the horror writer Katya de Becerra’s upcoming novel Little Kin.
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selected for the Gallery Lane Cove Winter Salon with her largest ever painting.
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included among the finalists for the Infuse Art Prize alongside her collaborator Lexi Markovic.
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selected to show three of her paintings at Willoughby Council’s Homegrown: Surface Tension show.
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exhibited as a soloist at The Corner Gallery in Stanmore
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longlisted for the Queensland Writers Centre's Publishable which is its annual national manuscript development program.
As an artist, her artwork 'All Monsters Are Real' won the Reused/Recycled Materials Award in the 2023 Reimagine Art Prize. The same piece, a skateboard deck that imitates a Ming dynasty scroll, was a finalist for the 2023 National Emerging Art Prize – and a finalist in the 2024 North Sydney Art Prize.
Claire's artwork 'Specimens' – 26 miniature paintings of moths and butterflies painted onto entirely reused or recycled materials – won the People's Choice in City of Ryde's Sustainable Waste to Art Prize 2024.
Her painting of a tarot card, referencing a type of ghost character from her culture, won a medal at Conflux 2024. At Conflux 2025, she was also awarded a medal along with the E. G. Harvey Award for Australian Speculative Fiction Art for her painting of an astronaut hunting oversized butterflies as they attempt to escape into space.
Claire exhibits work alongside other artists of the Wet Paint Collective around Sydney's Inner West.
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As a writer, Claire was shortlisted for an Australasian Shadows Award for a story titled 'After I Found Her', published in Clan Destine Press' horror anthology This Fresh Hell. The anthology was nominated for a Ditmar Award for Best Collected Work. The Ditmar Awards recognise the best of Australian sci fi, fantasy and horror.
Another short story, 'I Hope the Night Is Quiet', was published in Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 11: Revenge. That edition of the Castle Bridge Media anthology peaked at number 1 on Amazon's list of new releases in American horror. Claire’s most recent short story, 'Michael Collins On the Dark Side of the Moon', is out now in Castle of Horror Anthology Volume 12: Ripped from the Headlines.
Claire's short story 'Over My Dead Body' was shortlisted for the 2025 Hope Prize and will be published in an anthology with the winners/shortlist in 2026 (Simon & Schuster).
Claire is a former newspaper journalist and magazine editor.
Claire is currently open to new projects and can be contacted via her social media or the form below.