Claudia Bagnall (aka Pops) is a Gadigal/Sydney based painter and sculptor. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Art in Sculpture, Performance and Installation at UNSW Art & Design in 2012. Following her studies she she was granted an artist residency in Mparntwe/Alice Springs at Watch This Space. During this residency she turned to painting and drawing. On returning to Sydney she has continued her multidisciplinary practice in studios in the Inner West of Sydney, where she lives. She continues to exhibit in both solo and group exhibitions around Australia.

solo
2021 pain tings, anti gallery, annandale
2017 talk to strangers, tekminimal, petersham
2016 sundried paintings, 70 mary street, surry hills

group
2025 small works, flying arch, lismore, NSW
2024 fundraiser, tiles gallery, lewisham, NSW
2024 it’s raining, china heights, surry hills, NSW
2023 all in, saint cloche, paddington, NSW
2023 good art show, bescene framing shop, mudgeeraba, QLD
2023 works on paper, china heights, surry hills, NSW
2022 best life, saint cloche, paddington, NSW
2022 op shop, tiles gallery, lewisham, NSW
2022 invisible cities, prop gallery, ashfield, NSW
2021 grotto, saint cloche, paddington, NSW
2020 i’m still here, passport gallery, darlinghurst, NSW
2020 human err0r, gmo gallery, a virtual gallery based in new york city
2020 holiday dreaming, saint-cloche, paddington, NSW
2020 piccolo, comber street studios, paddington, NSW
2019 a4, downunder space, redfern, NSW
2019 lilac city at burton, burton project space, darlinghurst, NSW
2019 her, bow & arrow, manly, NSW
2018 toying with the idea, tekminimal, petersham, NSW
2016 snack paintings, seaview gallery, dulwich hill, NSW
2015 restless, 107 projects, redfern, NSW
2013 it's real whack out back, tortuga studios, st. peters, NSW
2013 planet springs, caas art shed, alice springs, NT
2013 equilibrium, gallery 8, millers point, NSW
2012 leeches and beeches, kudos gallery, darlinghurst, NSW

publications
2023 miasma magazine issue 1
2021 artedit magazine issue 27
2021 index magazine issue 2
2020 miasma press, ‘railroad sabotage’

awards
2013 alice springs art advocate prize for drawing
2012 art & australia prize for sculpture

education
2016 diploma of graphic design illustration, TAFE design centre enmore
2012 bachelor of fine art, unsw art & design, paddington