About
About The Artist
Claire graduated from University of Northumbria with a B.A.(Hons) Fine Art, specialising in Sculpture. After a few years of practice, changes in her personal circumstances led her to re-train in Psychology and she spent 18 years working in the field of addictions in prisons and the criminal justice system. In 2017 Claire returned to Art practice.
About the Work
Mixed media Installation, Sculpture and Drawing.
Claire’s work is about the thresholds between the physical and spiritual, light and dark, seen and unseen. Those liminal spaces that occur at the edges of our human experience and cause us to reflect on our place in the Universe. Her Installations are time-specific, suggesting transient, physical existence and aim to create an intimate, embodied experience for the viewer, in which they are invited into a contemplative discourse, where their sense of the material and physical is disrupted. The work typically employs sources of illumination, reflection and darkness in contained areas that vary in scale; from small boxes to rooms. Claire often uses simple geometric shapes, such as cubes and spheres to express the laws of the physical realm in relation to the spiritual. Materials include wax, flames, copper and mirrored surfaces, to create reflections and illusions- designed to take the viewer beyond the physical realm and suggest an unseen, but present reality.
Exhibitions
2025
Borrowed Light (photography) — Solo Exhibition at ARC, Stockton on Tees
Creative End of Life — Socially engaged creative consultation with older adults, prompting creative conversations about death, dying & bereavement.
In partnership with South Tees Public Health and Borderlands Creative People & Places (CPP)
2024
Speak a Better Word — Artworks Here, Expect Delays, Middlesbrough Art Week, Middlesbrough
2023 / 24
Creative Consultation Residency — with older adults in Middlesbrough, Redcar & Cleveland. In Partnership with Redcar & Cleveland Council, Public Health S.Tees
2023
Anoint Me (video installation) — Now That’s What I Call Art 3, The Auxiliary Project Space, Middlesbrough
2022
Blank Canvas (large-scale, site-specific installation) — Stockton Riverside Festival
Collaboration with Beth Johnson, Charlie Mupenga, and Jane BizimanaKite Club — Socially engaged art project with Borderland Creative People & Places, in partnership with Open Door Northeast
In These Shoes — Socially engaged art project with Wild Vision Collective, in partnership with RocSolid, Nightlight Theatre, ARC Stockton
2021
LIGHT:space Art Trail — Wild Vision Collective, Stockton on Tees
Let Us Eat Cake — Wildlamillustrations & Slutmouth Design, Virtual Gallery
2020
Unlocked In Lockdown — Wild Vision Popup Gallery, Stockton on Tees
Pods — Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough (Cancelled due to Covid)
End of Year Show — Pineapple Black, Middlesbrough (Cancelled due to Covid)
2018
Stockton Contemporary — Stockton on Tees
2017
Middlesbrough Art Weekender: Open Studios — Platform Arts Studios, Middlesbrough
