Claire Shakespeare

Joined Artfinder: Sept. 2022

Artworks for sale: 2

United Kingdom

About Claire Shakespeare

 
 
  • Biography
    Driven by impulse and material process, this introspective work captures personal yet ambiguous engagements with the everyday. Through investigating improvisation and chance within painting, works effortlessly blend materiality, image, and the inner self to create enigmatic compositions that hold a lively balance between colour, form, and expressive linear marks. Resulting works are often suggestive and comical, acting as innuendoes to the body or natural landscape.

    Working in the studio, stimulation is naturally dependant on material, therefore it is essential to maintain a playful and experimental approach. Thriving off intuition, painting is guided by the act of painting itself. Intentions for paintings are undetermined but always aim to conduct enquiries into the materiality of paint. By adding, obliterating, and reassembling, imagery emerges from a history of various marks, embracing the unknowability and accidental within painting. Once found, repeated methodologies must be disrupted, usually by introducing alternative mediums such as house paint, enamel, charcoal, or paper which offer inventive and intriguing tensions within the surface. Whether that being thick areas of paint against translucent layers or an unexpected dot of blue next to a larger outline, the works achieve an exciting dynamism between opposition, simultaneously emphasising depth while reaffirming the painting's two-dimensionality.
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  • Education

    2019 - 2022

    University of Brighton

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    Previous events

    Event: Frontal Dancer

    Dates: 8 Sep 2022 - 11 Sep 2022

    Venue: The Fitzrovia Gallery, London

    Solo show at The Fitzrovia Gallery

    Event: Dot to Dot

    Dates: 5 Aug 2022 - 14 Aug 2022

    Venue: Coachwerks, Brighton

    Dot to Dot is an group exhibition consisting of the work of eight early careers artists working predominantly in painting, sculpture and drawing. The exhibition focus on the core idea of connection within these artist's practices.

    https://www.instagram.com/dot._to._dot/

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Education

2019 - 2022

University of Brighton


There are no upcoming events

Show previous events Hide previous events

Previous events

Event: Frontal Dancer

Dates: 8 Sep 2022 - 11 Sep 2022

Venue: The Fitzrovia Gallery, London

Solo show at The Fitzrovia Gallery

Event: Dot to Dot

Dates: 5 Aug 2022 - 14 Aug 2022

Venue: Coachwerks, Brighton

Dot to Dot is an group exhibition consisting of the work of eight early careers artists working predominantly in painting, sculpture and drawing. The exhibition focus on the core idea of connection within these artist's practices.

https://www.instagram.com/dot._to._dot/


 

Biography

Driven by impulse and material process, this introspective work captures personal yet ambiguous engagements with the everyday. Through investigating improvisation and chance within painting, works effortlessly blend materiality, image, and the inner self to create enigmatic compositions that hold a lively balance between colour, form, and expressive linear marks. Resulting works are often suggestive and comical, acting as innuendoes to the body or natural landscape.

Working in the studio, stimulation is naturally dependant on material, therefore it is essential to maintain a playful and experimental approach. Thriving off intuition, painting is guided by the act of painting itself. Intentions for paintings are undetermined but always aim to conduct enquiries into the materiality of paint. By adding, obliterating, and reassembling, imagery emerges from a history of various marks, embracing the unknowability and accidental within painting. Once found, repeated methodologies must be disrupted, usually by introducing alternative mediums such as house paint, enamel, charcoal, or paper which offer inventive and intriguing tensions within the surface. Whether that being thick areas of paint against translucent layers or an unexpected dot of blue next to a larger outline, the works achieve an exciting dynamism between opposition, simultaneously emphasising depth while reaffirming the painting's two-dimensionality.