Claire Barclay
Claire Barclay | |
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Born | 1968 (age 55–56) Paisley, Scotland |
Nationality | Scottish |
Alma mater | Glasgow School of Art |
Style | installation, 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]
"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
- 'Nettverk Glasgow', Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, 1998
- Zenomap'. 50. Venice Biennale, 2003
- 'Art now: Claire Barclay. Half-light', Tate Britain, 2004
- 'Claire Barclay: silver gilt', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, 2005
- 'Claire Barclay: shifting ground', Camden Arts Centre, London, 2008
- 'Claire Barclay: openwide', The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2009
- 'Claire Barclay: Pale Heights', MUDAM, Luxenburg, 2009
- 'Claire Barclay: Shadow Spans', Whitechapel Gallery, 2010
- 'Overlap - Claire Barclay', Glasgow Print Studio, 2010[13]
- 'Abstract Possible', Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, 2011[14]
- 'Bright Bodies', Kelvinhall, Glasgow, 2016[15]
- 'Yield Point', Tramway Gallery, Glasgow, 2017
- 'Deep Spoils', Mission Gallery, Swansea, 2018[16]
- 'Skiffing', Edinburgh College of Art, 2019[17]
Public collections
- Arts Council Collection[18]
- British Council[19]
- Moderna Museet[20]
- National Galleries Scotland[21]
- Mudam, Luxembourg[22]
Awards
- Artist in Residence, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, 1997
- Three Year AHRB Fellowship, Glasgow School of Art, 2000
- Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist's Award, 2007
- The Hospital Club Creative Award for Art, 2008
- Residency, Statens Vaerksteder for Kunst, Copenhagen, 2011
- Residency, The Banff Centre, Banff, 2013[14]
- Residency, Edinburgh College of Art, 2019
Publications
- 'Claire Barclay: Ideal Pursuits', exhibition catalogue, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, 2003
- 'Claire Barclay: Fault on the Right Size', exhibition catalogue, Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2007
- 'Claire Barclay: openwide', exhibition catalogue, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2009
- 'Claire Barclay: Shadow Spans', Whitechapel Gallery, 2010[14]
References
- ^ a b c d Barclay, Claire (2009). Openwide. The Fruitmarket Gallery. ISBN 9780947912642. OCLC 811321128.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Shannon, Liz. "Claire Barclay: Openwide". list.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ "Claire Barclay". belowanothersky.org. Archived from the original on 10 May 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
- ^ a b c Brown, Katrina M.; Tufnell, Rob (2001). Here + Now - Scottish Art 1990-2001. Dundee Contemporary Arts. p. 36. ISBN 0-9535178-7-X.
- ^ a b Sherwin, Skye (2 September 2010). "Artist of the week 103: Claire Barclay". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ Barclay, Claire (2011). Claire Barclay : shadow spans. Ogg, Kirsty., Whitechapel Art Gallery. London: Whitechapel Gallery. p. 47. ISBN 9780854881918. OCLC 752814701.
- ^ "Art Now: Claire Barclay: Half-light". Tate. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ "Stephen Friedman Gallery - News - 'Claire Barclay: Yield Point' At Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland". www.stephenfriedman.com. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ "Claire Barclay, Deep Spoils". www.missiongallery.co.uk. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ Tate. "Art Now: Claire Barclay: Half-light – Exhibition at Tate Britain | Tate". Tate. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ Sharratt, Chris (7 March 2017). "Claire Barclay". Frieze (187). Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ Sherwin, Skye (2 September 2010). "Artist of the week 103: Claire Barclay". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ "Overlap Exhibition at Glasgow Print Studio - Claire Barclay". Retrieved 24 May 2018.
- ^ a b c 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.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ "CLAIRE BARCLAY". Glasgow International. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
- ^ "Claire Barclay, Deep Spoils". www.missiongallery.co.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
- ^ "Skiffing | Edinburgh College of Art". www.eca.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
- ^ "Barclay, Claire | Arts Council Collection". www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
- ^ "Claire Barclay | Artists | Collection | British Council − Visual Arts". visualarts.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
- ^ "Moderna Museet - Collection". sis.modernamuseet.se. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
- ^ "Claire Barclay". www.nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
- ^ "Claire Barclay". Mudam. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
External links
- Claire Barclay at Stephen Friedman Gallery
- Claire Barclay website