about

Claire’s research is concerned with how we process and store memories with their inevitable fallibility and elasticity. It considers the role photography plays within systems of memory and truth and questions the role of ‘the cloud’ as data storage system.

 

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. Often using contained and text based installations, printed materials and artists books to speculate, formulate and wonder.

 

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 from AUP where she is Studio Coordinator for fine print and works from her studio in west Devon.

 

Claire’s work is held in private and public collections, including book works in several University libraries and The Wellcome Collection, London. She has published in Printmaking Today magazine and is currently writing a piece for them and for a book – where the words will translate to textile works and monoprints.

 

Work 2027:

  • Bookish – Conceived, curated by and exhibiting in. With invited artists working with artist’s books. Greenhill Arts, Moretonhampsted 29 Jan-20 March. PV 28 Jan

 

Work 2026:

  • Dialogues at FLAMM, Bodmin, 27 Feb – 1 March. With CAMP 3D Kin group
  • Hyphae House, Plymouth, Inaugural show – opens 20 March
  • Book Works / Books Work – An exhibition Claire conceived, curated and participated in, to show the work of post grad students from her Artist Book Group – May
  • Wipe My Algorithm – Cabinet Gallery AUP – solo – data storage collection – May/June
  • BABE – Bristol Artist Book Event – June
  • Small is Mighty, community events and shows for Hatherleigh Festival
  • Totems For Troubling Times – an RTM collaborative project with a residency at GROW, Plymouth – Sept 28 – October 18 – culminating in events and happenings at PAW (Plymouth Art Weekender) 16-18 Oct
    Touring dates following the residency TBC
  • Cloudy (with showers), solo book show, Bower Ashton Library, UWE, Bristol 3 december – 23 Jan 2027

 

Work 2025:

  • PSA show at Artmill, Plymouth 10 Jan – 8 Feb
    Solo work in the Cabinet Gallery, AUP Library ‘is/was/maybe’. 14 Jan – 1 March
  • Solo Show ‘Pay Attention To The Gaps’, The Plough Arts Centre Gallery, Torrington. 19 February – 27 March 
  • Print In Action, Printers Show – Hub Box, Royal William Yard – April
  • 5 printmakers from Arts University Plymouth at Artmill Gallery, Plymouth. 27 March – 27 April
  • The State We’re In, Terre Verte Gallery with CAMP Writers Kin Group 12 June – 19 July
  • Hatherleigh Festival with The Shakespearean Garden, Fallowfield Manchester – Facilitating and exhibiting in the community Sketchbook Shows – July
  • Alliances and Counterpoints, The Mirror Gallery, Arts University Plymouth with PSA,  4 – 31 August – both showing and co-curating
  • Traces, Ruptures and Returns. An Arts University Plymouth Research Group exhibition (and workshop/roundtable with members of Land2). The Mirror Gallery, Sept 8 – 30
  • Dialogues. CAMP 3D Kin Group, The Plough Arts Centre, October

 

Work 2024:

  • Plymouth society of Artists show, Artmill: 18 May – 14 June
  • Coordinate, curate and exhibit at The Printers Paradise, Hatherleigh Festival: July 11-14
  • ‘Air’ residency at Terre Verte Gallery, Altarnun, Cornwall. With RTM – September
  • Plymouth Art weekender: Plate makers exhibition, CAMP PlymouthKin group show and Artober Show- October
  • Mariners Gallery, St.Ives with PSA: 14 October – 14 November
  • Other: Camp Writers Kin group ‘The State We Are In’ book project, Re-site and KART collab projects (Australia). ‘Pier Review’ Artists book purchased for the Artists Book collection at Plymouth University.

 

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.