Claudia Clare British

Overview
Claudia Clare

“I make pots so I’ve got something to paint on - by 'paint,' I mean with slip. All my materials are ceramic. I was trained to paint on canvas but found the turning surface of a more pot sympathetic to an unfolding visual narrative. Pots are our museum pieces, our archaeological and documentary evidence. Their human, cultural and historic associations appeal to me as a feminist artist interested in recording and interpreting women’s histories and contemporary lives.

Pots also break and can be rebuilt. It is a compelling metaphor for the human experience of trauma and survival: ‘I was shattered. Now I’m piecing myself slowly back together.’ I use this method particularly in my feminist work when I'm responding to accounts of forgotten or marginalised lives. These pots can act as a memorial and also serve as a call for action especially when part of a performance. “

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Biography
Claudia Clare

Education

 

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

 

2023                        Feminist Satire, No Safe Spaces, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw,                                                           (catalogue, English and Polish.)

2022                        Fired! Gallery 286, London

2021                        Claudia Clare at the Sewell Centre Gallery, Radley College

2020                        Fragmented, Zuleika Gallery, with Frances Aviva Blane (catalogue)

2020                        Collect 2020, Somerset House, with Alice Kettle and Candida Stevens Gallery

2019                        Traveling West, Pots by Claudia Clare, Huguenot Museum, Rochester

2019                        London Art Fair, Zulieka 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 286, London,

2012                        An Extraordinary Turn of Events, Francis Kyle Gallery, London, (catalogue)

2011                        Remembering Atefeh, Commemorative Performance, Hyde Park, London                

2007-2010          Shattered, London Gallery West, and touring, (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 and touring, (catalogue.)

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2021                        Untouchable, Liliya Art Gallery, London

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 Agenda, The Wilson, Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery

2013                        British Ceramics Biennial, Award 2013, Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke                                      on Trent

2013                        In the Name of Honour, 1 Mayfair, London, (catalogue)

2011                        I Am Human, New Schoolhouse Gallery, York

2010                        Fired Up, Ceramics and Meaning, Gallery Oldham, (catalogue)

 

            

 

 

 

Public Commissions, Social Projects, Performances

 

2023                        Keep Prisons Single Sex, Elizabeth Fry bicentenary commission.

2022                        Filia International Feminist Conference, Sink the Sex Trade - design for prints

2021                        Fore Street for All, Survivors and Fighters Talk - talk and showcase

2021                        women@thewell, An Evening with women@thewell and Claudia Clare, Brave                                            Face, performance

2021                        Filia International Feminist Conference, Femicide Vigil - performance

2019                        Filia International Feminist Conference, Memorial March Vigil - performance       

2019-date             women@thewell, London, And The Door Opened - social project

2001-3                    Paved Paradise. Architectural project. West Yorkshire.

 

 

Public Collection

 

Transcultural Collection, Bradford Museums and Art Galleries.

New Hall Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. (Catalogue.)

Pankhurst Museum, Manchester

 

 

 

Press coverage

 

Books

 

2023                        Katie Treggiden, Repair as Activism, Ludion

2021                        Bonnie Kemske, Kintsugi: The Poetic Mend, Herbert Press

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

 

2021-22             Talk Radio UK, Bob Mills in the Afternoon, 'What's on in the arts this month' 

2021                        GBN, Inaya Folarin Iman, 'Is censorship a problem in the arts?'

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

 

2024                        Unherd, 'How Activists Captured the Arts Council,' Jonny Best

2024                        Museums Journal, 'Battle Over Free Speech,' Geraldine Kendall Adams

2024                        Obieg, 'Censorship in Art and the New Taboos,' Kaya Szulczewska

2023                        Kolektyw Labrys, 'Feminist Intervention and Satire,' by the Collective

2023                        The Critic, 'Breaking Taboos with Clay,' Jo Bartosch

2023                        Studio International, 'A Spirit Inside,' Beth Williamson

2023                        Artforum, 'Cultural Whiplash in Warsaw,' Claire Bishop,

2022                        Unherd, 'Ceramicist De-platformed for being a "SWERF",' Julie Bindel

2022                        Spiked Online, 'The Closing of the Artistic Mind,' Josephine Bartosch

2022                        Daily Mail, 'Ceramic Artist Cancelled,' Matthew Lodge

2022                        Telegraph, 'Cancel Culture Row,' Ewan Somerville                                 

2022                        Real Democracy Now, 'The Stuff of Dreams and Nightmares,' Corinna Lotz

2020                        The Glass Magazine, ‘Glass Previews Fragmented,’ Connie de Pelet

2020                        Morning Star, ‘Shattered Illusions,’ Josephine Bartosch

2020                        Spiked Online, ‘The Silencing of Feminist Artists,’ 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 Sponsorships

 

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

 

Articles

 

2024                        Artforum, Response to Claire Bishop, Letters

2017                        Gallery Oldham, ‘Overplapping Fields: the meeting of urban and rural                                                              influences in the Emilie Taylor’s Edgelands,' catalogue essay

2016                        Jewish Museum, London, ‘Shaping Ceramics – Future Tense,' in                                                                            ‘Shaping Ceramics: From Lucie Rie to Edmund de Waal,' catalogue essay

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.

 

 

Conference Papers and Lectures

 

2022                        Women's Declaration International, Feminist Question Time, 'Censorship in                                               the Visual Arts and the attack on Feminist Artists,' panel

2022                        Tate Modern, Tate Modern Lates, 'Lesbian identity, Pottery, and Artistic                                                        Process,' panel

2022                        Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Arts, Warsaw, Culture Tensions,                                               'A Woman's Right to Choose?' panel         

2022                        Liberal Voice for Women, 'The Cancellation of Art,' in conversation with Rosie                                          Kay

2022                        The Women's Art Collection, London Art Fair, 'Feminism and Curating,' panel

2021                        Filia International Feminist Conference, 'Creative Resistance,' panel

2016                        Hidden Agenda: Crafting Change, The Wilson, Cheltenham, 'Subversive                                                        Ceramics,' lecture

2016                        Radical Ceramics: The Clause 28 Tea Set, The People's History Museum,                                                         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.”

 

 

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