Clare graduated in textile print design from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2003 with First class Honours. Since then she has taken her training to explore building images through digital photography. The work experiments with various low-tech materials such as paper, plastic and cardboard as well as found objects and natural forms. Clare constructs unusual shapes and surfaces with these materials and photographs them with light. Subject matter becomes hazy, ambiguous and distorted by superimposing one layer of imagery over another. Clare enjoys building an image from scratch, creating the very objects she photographs, moving between three and two dimensions in production and in exhibition stages of the work.

A variety of scales and media are made use of with Clare’s photography. Small-scale work is sold at regular markets and fairs as archival limited edition prints. Combining digital fabric printing, laser-cutting and screen-printing processes, larger textile panels have been produced including a commission for the Emirates Towers building in Dubai. These large scale panels have been exhibited at the T-Building, London, Jelly Leg’d Chicken Gallery, Reading in 2004 and her photographic prints represented by Barjis International at 100% Design in 2005. Clare will be exhibiting at the Hertfordshire Art Fair and Landmark Arts Centre Fair in 2006.

Clare also delivers textile workshops with the Buckingham Young People’s University and Pigeon Ltd. She is currently working with students in her host school Waddesdon and primary school Winslow, exploring experimental photography and taking an active part in their Virtual Learning Environment programme.

Host Organisation: Waddesdon School, Aylesbury

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