Claire’s research is concerned with how we process and store memories with their inevitable fallibility, as it considers the role photography plays within systems of memory and truth.
Recent works endeavour to find ways to map the leakage from the mass of little constructions that we hold deeply archived within ourselves, to the stories we tell to make sense of ourselves in the world.
An integral element of Claire’s practice is the coordination of community based, socially engaged projects, collaborations and mail works. She is one third of the artist collective Room To Manoeuvre.
Claire holds a Masters in Fine Art, with distinction from AUP where she is Studio Coordinator for fine print and works from her studio in west Devon.
Previously: Senior Technician (fine print) University of Plymouth.
Independent arts workshop facilitator and Coordinator of and at arts festivals and The Printery Studios..
Work: 2023:
- Plymouth Society of Artists Show, Artmill Gallery – June/July
- Hatherleigh Arts Festival – July: Coordinated and curated the community project – The Hatherleigh Tea Towel Rebellion
- Thelma Hulbert Gallery – 2nd September – 28th October thelmahulbert.com
- Synergy: Group show, Leadworks, Plymouth, Friday 29th September – Sunday 1st October.
- Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London 26th – 29th October woolwichprintfair.com
- Arts University Staff Show – October , Hatherleigh Tea Towel Rebellion, community project and exhibition, Hatherleigh, July.
2022:
- Solo show – Here We Go: Exeter Phoenix, Double Elephant Gallery Sept – November
- The Car Park works were part of the Room To Manoeuvre Collective at: Leadworks, Plymouth – October, Vacancy Atlas, Plymouth – November and The Fish Factory, Penryn, Cornwall, November.
- Work made through conversations between AUP, Baylor University Texas and Ulster University were included in a collaborative exhibition at IMPACT Bristol in September.
Earlier:
- enTrance 3 woman exhibition at Greenhill Arts Dartmoor, Bankside Gallery London, Plymouth University, Plymouth Art Weekender, Exeter Art week, Thelma Hulbert Gallery (Evolver magazine) BABE…, Multiple International print exhibitions.