Claire Barclay

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Claire Barclay
Born1968 (age 53–54)
Paisley, Scotland
Nationality Scottish
Alma mater Glasgow School of Art
Styleinstallation, sculpture and printmaking

Claire Barclay (born 1968) is a Scottish artist. Her artistic practice uses a number of traditional media that include installation, sculpture and printmaking, but it also expands to encapsulate a diverse array of craft techniques. [1] Central to her practice is a sustained exploration of materials and space. [2] [3]

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"While there is always a concept behind the work its actual form comes out of the 'play' with materials and my response to them" [4]

Early life and education

Claire Barclay received a Master of Fine Arts from the Glasgow School of Art, where she focused on environmental art. [5] She graduated in 1993 with an MA. [6] [4]

Career

Barclay's first solo exhibition was at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow in 1994. [4] In 2003, Barclay represented Scotland in the Venice Biennale. [5] Her work was the focus of a solo exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2004. [7] In 2009 she had a solo exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery, which documented significant works created by Barclay over the previous 12 years, alongside newly-commissioned installations. [1] She has had several solo exhibitions at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. In 2017 she showed new large scale sculptural work at Tramway Gallery in Glasgow, [8] and the work made here amongst others were reworked and adapted at Mission Gallery, Swansea, in 2018 [9]

Themes

Situated within realms of the domestic, Barclay's work juxtaposes the reified space of the gallery with that of the everyday. [1] The objects present within her installations allude to dichotomies between function and dysfunction; subsequently, this imbues them with qualities of both the familiar and strange, simultaneously imparting them with an elusory nature. [10]

Style

Barclay creates large-scale installations, often made in situ and in response to the spaces in which they are shown. [1] Her practice is also deeply rooted in process and craftsmanship; accordingly, her installations include an array of materials that oscillate between those associated with mechanization and those associated with the domestic: steel, cast-concrete, machined aluminium, rubber, brass mesh, ceramic, leather, canvas and printed fabric. [11] These dualities further position her artistic process between the handcrafted and industrially produced, as well as the natural and man-made. [12]

Selected exhibitions

Public collections

Awards

Publications

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  4. 1 2 3 Brown, Katrina M.; Tufnell, Rob (2001). Here + Now - Scottish Art 1990-2001. Dundee Contemporary Arts. p. 36. ISBN   0-9535178-7-X.
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  6. ↑ Barclay, Claire (2011). Claire Barclay : shadow spans. Ogg, Kirsty., Whitechapel Art Gallery. London: Whitechapel Gallery. p. 47. ISBN   9780854881918. OCLC   752814701.
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  8. ↑ "Stephen Friedman Gallery - News - 'Claire Barclay: Yield Point' At Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland". www.stephenfriedman.com. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  9. ↑ "Claire Barclay, Deep Spoils". www.missiongallery.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
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  13. ↑ "Overlap Exhibition at Glasgow Print Studio - Claire Barclay" . Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  14. 1 2 3 Funktion - Dysfunktion - Function - Dysfunction : Kunstzentrum Glasgow : contemporary art from Glasgow : Claire Barclay, Martin Boyce, Nick Evans, Nicolas Party, Ciara Phillips, Mary Redmond. Todd, Jacqueline., Rehkopf, Kurt., Zirden, Sylvia., Neues Museum (Nuremberg, Germany). Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst. 2013. p. 47. ISBN   9783869844817. OCLC   873822785.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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