Clementine Stoney Maconachie (b.1981) is a visual artist living and working in Sydney, Australia.
She primarily works with metals, wood, and stone, striving to find beauty, simplicity, and softness through organic lines and shapes. Embracing the beauty of imperfection is central to Clementine’s practice. She plays with balance and proportion, exploring the contrast between hard materials and soft shapes, making hard materials appear soft, like paper.
Known for her irregular abstract totems of stacked organic shapes and fluid metal folds, Maconachie is inspired first by materials and then by form. She carves and hand-sands individual pieces, which are then stacked vertically. Using her body weight as a tool, she creates bent shapes from industrial metal sheets, resulting in soft, folded forms or twisted pieces made from steel, aluminum, and brass. Each piece is treated differently: some are left in their natural state, others are treated with patina, and some are powder-coated or painted with a chalky finish.
Clementine’s portfolio consists primarily of organic, minimal, and sometimes figurative forms. In addition to her artistic achievements, she is an Olympian and former world record holder.