CLAUDIA CLARE: CURRICULUM VITAE
Representation:
Lizzie Collins, Zuleika Gallery, Oxford and London, 2015-date
Jonathan Ross, Gallery 286, London. 2016-date
Contemporary Ceramic Centre, London. 2016-date
Francis Kyle Gallery, (now closed), London 2009 – 2014
QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING
2007 PhD University of Westminster, London. Media, Art & Design.
1990-91 Winchcombe Pottery, Gloucestershire. Apprenticeship 1 year (ceramics)
1985 Fine Art B.A. Hons. Camberwell School of Art and Craft. London (painting)
EXHIBITIONS, ONE AND TWO PERSON SHOWS
2019 London Art Fair, Zuleika Gallery, two person display
2018 The Wootton Pots, Zuleika Gallery, Oxford, (catalogue)
2017 Claudia Clare pots, Grayson Perry Prints, Zuleika Gallery, London (catalogue)
2017 The Summer Pots, Gallery 285, London,
2016 Bring on the Baroque! Gallery 286, London
2012 An Extraordinary Turn of Events, Francis Kyle Gallery, London, (catalogue)
2011 Remembering Atefeh, Commemorative Performance, Hyde Park, London
2010 Shattered, Bradford Museums and Art Galleries, Cliffe Castle.
2009 Shattered, Original Gallery, London.
2007 Shattered, London Gallery West, (catalogue)
2001 An Alien in the Kitchen. Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1999 Collection for the Zsolnay Sisters. Rich Women of Zurich, London.
1996-1998 The World Service. Geffrye Museum, London; Museum of Garden History, London; Museum of Oxford; Manor House, Ilkley; Primavera, Cambridge;
Huddersfield Art Gallery; Platform Gallery, Clitheroe; (catalogue)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, (Summary)
2019 Dear Christine, Vane Gallery, Newcastle, and touring (catalogue)
2018 Once Upon a Time, North Wall, Oxford, (catalogue)
2017 Never Going Underground, People’s History Museum, Manchester
2016 Hidden, Zuleika Gallery, 6 Mason’s Yard, London
2016 Ideas Worth Fighting For, People’s History Museum, Manchester
2016 Hidden Agenda, The Wilson, Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery
2016 Clause 28 Tea Set (1988), at People’s History Museum, Manchester
2015 A History of the Pankhurst Centre, Pankhurst Museum, Manchester
2014 Poppies: Women and War, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
2013 British Ceramics Biennial, Award 2013, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent
2013 In The Name Of Honour, 1 Mayfair, London, (catalogue)
2013 Jumping for Joyce, Francis Kyle Gallery, London, (catalogue)
2011 This Twittering World, Francis Kyle Gallery, London, (catalogue)
2011 I Am Human, New Schoolhouse Gallery, York
2010 Fired Up, Ceramics and Meaning, Gallery Oldham, (catalogue)
2009 Byzantium, Francis Kyle Gallery, London (catalogue)
2008 Florlegium. Cartwright Hall, Bradford. (catalogue)
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2019-20 And The Door Opened, social project with Women @the Well, London
2001-3 Paved Paradise. Architectural project. West Yorkshire.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Transcultural Collection, Bradford Museums and Art Galleries.
New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. (Catalogue.)
Pankhurst Museum, Manchester
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PRESS COVERAGE (about Claudia Clare)
BOOKS
2021 Bonnie Kemske, Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend, Herbert Press (forthcoming)
2012 Paul Scott, Ceramics and Print, Third Edition, A&C Black, UK.
2010 Linda Bloomfield, Advanced Pottery Making, Robert Hale, UK
2009 Emmanuel Cooper, Contemporary Ceramics International Perspective, Thames & Hudson, UK.
2004 Gwen Heeney, Brickworks, A&C Black, UK
FILM, TELEVISION, RADIO
2019 BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour Takeover with Harriet Wistrich, ‘Feminist ceramics’
2011 Manoto, 21st December, The Culture Programme, ‘Claudia Clare, Ceramic Artist,’ director / editor, 5th Season (in Farsi)
2011 Green Camera, ‘Khorshid,’ director/editor Hossein Taraz (in Farsi with English subtitles)
PRESS
2020 Morning Star, ‘Shattered Illusions,’ Josephine Bartosch
2019 Financial Times, ‘The Shifting Fortunes of Art Fairs,’ Melanie Gerlis
2019 Private Eye, ‘Scene & Heard,’ David Ziggy Green,
2017 Ceramic Review, ‘Pots with a Story to Tell,’ Claudia Clare
2016 Crafts Magazine, ‘Hidden Agenda,’ review, Emma Crichton-Miller
2013 The Independent: ‘Bloom Time,’ John Walsh
2013 Irish Post: ‘The London Exhibition Leaving Ulysses Fans Spoiled for Joyce,’ James Martin
2013 Ceramic Review, ‘Extraordinary Turn of Events,’ review, Tanya Harrod
2012 Financial Times, ‘Claudia Clare: An Extraordinary Turn of Events,’ Critics Choice, Jackie Wullschlager
2011 Ceramic Review, 252, ‘Breaking a Pot: Remembering Atefeh,’ Kimberley Chandler
2011 Pendaar, issues 3, (March, in English) and 6, (July, in Farsi), ‘Interview with Claudia Clare,’ feature, Iman Nabavi
2010 Ceramic Review, 246, ‘Fired Up: Ceramics and Meaning,’ Review, Liz Mitchell
2009 Parikiaki, 17th December, ‘Shattered: An Exhibition Of Ceramics By Claudia Clare,’ Dr. Criton Tomazos. (Greek / English)
2009 Londra Gazete, ‘Women Must Seek,’ Suzan Nuri, (Turkish / English).
2009 Financial Times, ‘That Gong Tormented Sea,’ Critics Choice, Jackie Wullschlager.
2007 Ceramic Review, 229, “Ceramics and installation,” Emma Shaw.
TEACHING
2018 Brookes University, Oxford
2017 Royal Drawing School, visiting lecturer
2010-date Sotheby’s Institute, Visiting Lecturer
AWARDS AND SPONSORSHIP
2004 University of Westminster. Travel bursary 2 months research in Iran.
2001 Churchill Travel Fellowship, Hungary, Turkey, Iran, Uzbekistan.
1998 Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust, residency Kecskemet, Hungary
PUBLICATIONS, (by Claudia Clare)
BOOKS
2016 Subversive Ceramics, Bloomsbury, London
2011 The Pot Book, co-authored with Edmund de Waal, Phaidon, London
CATALOGUES AND ARTICLES (summary)
2017 Gallery Oldham, ‘Overplapping Fields: the meeting of urban and rural influences in the Emilie Taylor’s Edgelands.
2016 Jewish Museum, London, ‘Shaping Ceramics – Future Tense,’ essay in ‘Shaping Ceramics: From Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal.’
2015 Stephanie Hoppen Gallery, ‘Avital Sheffer,’ catalogue essay
1997-date Ceramic Review, regular contributor writing features and reviews.
2009 International Feminist Journal of Politics, ‘The Art of Crafting the Future Present-Past,’ with Marysia Zalewski, Alex Brew, Merlyn Riggs, Charlie Hackett.
2009 Crafts Magazine, 218, ‘Unveiled: New Art From The Middle East.’
CONFERENCE PAPERS and Lectures
2016 Subversive Ceramics, The Wilson, Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery
2016 Radical Ceramics: The Clause 28 Tea Set. National Festival of LGBT History, Manchester
2012 Subversive Ceramics: exploring ideas in contemporary ceramic practice, Holburne Museum, Bath, ‘Satire, Subversion and Revolution.’
2009 East & West: Cross-Cultural Encounters, University of St. Andrews, ‘The Artist And The Coup D’Etat: A Users Guide To Exhibiting In Politically Unstable Situations.’
2008 Connecting Cultures, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, “Artists and Public Collections in the 21st Century: Opportunity or Risk?”
2008 Ending International Feminist Futures, University of Aberdeen, ‘Traffic: A Pot From Shattered.’
2008 A Woman’s Place: Locating the Feminine in Modern and Contemporary Culture. Newcastle University, “Princess Hymen: A Pot from Shattered.”
2007 Parallels and Connections. University of Sunderland. National Glass Centre. “Shattered: Surviving Sexual violence, mediated through ceramic materiality.”
2005 Storytelling and Poetry. International Ceramic Research Centre. Denmark. “So She Took a Sharp Knife. Trauma and Survival narrated through ceramics.”
2000 Fired Up North. University of Central Lancashire. International ceramics conference. “Soul Food and Revisiting the Renaissance.”
1999 Edge, identity and change. Western Australian School of Art, Design and Media. “International Ceramics Conference, Perth, Australia, European Ceramics, and Cultural representation.”