Claudia Clare

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Claudia Clare is a British ceramicist and writer known for her large painted earthenware jars depicting the impact of big events in the lives of ordinary women.

Career

Clare trained as a painter at Camberwell School of Art, apprenticed with Winchcombe pottery and gained a Phd at University of Westminster in 2007. [1] [2]

She has written for Ceramic Review [3] exhibited in galleries and museums [4] [5] including alongside Grayson Perry at the Zuleika Gallery. [6]

She has been described as a subversive ceramicist [7] and is the author of ‘Subversive Ceramics,’ (Bloomsbury 2016). [8] Clare co-wrote ‘The Pot Book’ (Phaidon, 2011) [9] with artist Edmund de Waal.

In 2023 she was involved in a controversy around an invitation to talk at University of The Arts London, [10] The University later apologised [11]

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