Moira Finucane

Finucane and Smith Unlimited

Moira Finucane is a cross artform performer with a background in environmental science, gender and human rights advocacy, and club performance. Finucane’s transformative, courageous theatrical extravaganzas challenge audiences and have been performed to universal acclaim. She has toured the world since 2004 presenting transcendent, magical performances driven by the conviction that art can change the world.

When Finucane delivered a part tour/part salon performance for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Intimate 8 series in 2017, porcelain hearts were created as gifts for all the participants. Each one was individually modeled and/or carved from porcelain and together with surface relief and decoration encompassing brush decoration, line drawing, mark making and individual polishing these bespoke objects epitomise the handmade. These porcelain hearts became an on-going project and are made periodically in small batches to gift to activists, courageous artists and inspiring souls around the globe. Giving without the expectation of receiving is a recurrent theme.

Porcelain icicles were created as part of a stage set for Finucane’s Ice Queen in The Rapture (2018) and The Rapture #2 (2019) performed in Berlin, Prague, China and Melbourne. Some 500 icicles were individually hand modeled from porcelain in varying sizes and subsequently suspended to make the ice queen’s cave which has most recently travelled to China among other locations.

Finucane was awarded the Miami Climakaze Award for outstanding artwork in climate justice for her latest performance.