Grant x Wilkes is a collaborative partnership between Claire Grant and Lee Wilkes that explores the evolving relationship between image, material, process and place. A deep curiosity for photographic experimentation and material innovation drives their work, pushing the photograph beyond its traditional boundaries. By combining analogue and digital processes, they merge historical craftsmanship with contemporary research. Their collaborative practice is rooted in shared intent, reflecting the dynamics of working partners and the possibilities that arise from mutual trust. Their approach is guided by a commitment to non-toxic processes and conscious material choices influenced by the sustainable darkroom movement. Drawing from personal experience and experimental traditions, their work comprises interdisciplinary collaborations, and ongoing research into sustainable and experimental image-making.

Claire Grant is from Aotearoa New Zealand and has lived in Australia since 2009. She studied Fine Art majoring in Photography at the University of Canterbury and Museum Studies at the University of Queensland. Lee Wilkes is Australian and he studied Fine Art majoring in Painting at Curtin University.

As solo artists Grant x Wilkes have exhibited extensively in public institutions, national art prizes, and private galleries throughout Australia. Collaboratively they have been finalists in the 2021 Milburn Art Prize for Landscape, and the 2025 Brisbane Portrait Prize where their portrait ‘Homecoming’ won both the Packer’s Prize and the Metro Arts Experimental Prize. Their recent solo exhibition ‘Local Guide’ was exhibited at Loupe Studio in November 2025.