Claudia Clare

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 potsGrayson 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                  ShatteredLondon 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 MuseumManchester

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 Review252, ‘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.”