Claire Barclay

Claire Barclay (born 1968) is a Scottish artist. Her artistic practice uses a number of traditional mediums 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]

Claire Barclay
Born1968 (age 52–53)
Paisley, Scotland
NationalityScottish
Alma materGlasgow School of Art
Styleinstallation, sculpture and printmaking

"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] 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
  • Arts Council Collection[18]
  • British Council[19]
  • Moderna Museet[20]
  • National Galleries Scotland[21]
  • Mudam, Luxembourg[22]

Awards

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
  1. Barclay, Claire; Fruitmarket Gallery (London) (2009). Openwide. The Fruitmarket Gallery. ISBN 9780947912642. OCLC 811321128.
  2. Shannon, Liz. "Claire Barclay: Openwide". list.co.uk. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  3. "Claire Barclay". belowanothersky.org. Archived from the original on 10 May 2018. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  4. Brown & Tufnell, Katrina M. & Rob (2001). Here + Now - Scottish Art 1990-2001. Dundee Contemporary Arts. p. 36. ISBN 0-9535178-7-X.
  5. Sherwin, Skye. "Artist of the week 103: Claire Barclay". The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  6. 1968-, Barclay, Claire (2011). Claire Barclay : shadow spans. Ogg, Kirsty., Whitechapel Art Gallery. London: Whitechapel Gallery. p. 47. ISBN 9780854881918. OCLC 752814701.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. "Art Now: Claire Barclay: Half-light". Tate. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  8. "Stephen Friedman Gallery - News - 'Claire Barclay: Yield Point' At Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland". www.stephenfriedman.com. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  9. "Claire Barclay, Deep Spoils". www.missiongallery.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  10. Tate. "Art Now: Claire Barclay: Half-light – Exhibition at Tate Britain | Tate". Tate. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  11. "Claire Barclay". frieze.com. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  12. Sherwin, Skye (2010-09-02). "Artist of the week 103: Claire Barclay | Skye Sherwin". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
  13. "Overlap Exhibition at Glasgow Print Studio - Claire Barclay". Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  14. 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.CS1 maint: others (link)
  15. "CLAIRE BARCLAY". Glasgow International. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
  16. "Claire Barclay, Deep Spoils". www.missiongallery.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  17. "Skiffing | Edinburgh College of Art". www.eca.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  18. "Barclay, Claire | Arts Council Collection". www.artscouncilcollection.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  19. "Claire Barclay | Artists | Collection | British Council − Visual Arts". visualarts.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  20. "Moderna Museet - Collection". sis.modernamuseet.se. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  21. "Claire Barclay". www.nationalgalleries.org. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
  22. "Claire Barclay". Mudam. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
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