Bio
Audrey Claeys (1984, Ghent) is a Brussels-based photographer and artist. After a career in research, sustainable trade, and international cooperation, she developed an artistic practice shaped by a keen sensitivity to human and social dynamics. In 2024, she began a professional bachelor’s degree in photography at LUCA School of Arts | Narafi.
Her work explores what emerges through the invisible—in the body, in nature, and in the inner landscape. Using analog and digital photography, as well as techniques such as double exposure, motion blur, and drawing on glass, she creates tranquil, layered images with a subtle psychological and expressionist undertone.
Recurring themes include the cyclical, the archetypal, and the feminine, as seen in works such as Maanstanden, in which she approaches the female cycle as a continuous process of transformation. In series such as Bronnen in Brussel and En voie d’illumination, she explores renewal, often with a touch of humor and a subtle sense of inner exploration.
Her images balance vulnerability and strength, inviting a contemplative gaze that renders the invisible palpable. More of her work can be found at audreyclaeys.com.
Artist Statement
My work is a quest to uncover what emerges through the invisible—within ourselves, in the world, and in nature. It is an intimate and understated process of connection, a ritual of creative expression that explores psychological layers and archetypal forms.
Through the body, I explore femininity and cyclicality as spaces of transformation and inner knowledge.
My images evoke the feminine, the cyclical, and the universal. Resistance plays a significant role in my work, inspired by Antigone, a figure from Greek mythology, and by the belief that art can be a way to break through indifference and injustice.
I work with both analog and digital photography, using techniques such as drawing on glass and double exposure.
Thematically, my work resonates with the psychological expressionism of early 20th-century German painting. My images echo artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Carla Williams, Ana Mendieta, and Roger Ballen.
Making space for what emerges softly, for the loud cry of resistance, and for the quiet power of embodied hope—that is what my work invites.