​About

 

Claire Shakespeare (b. 1998, Stourbridge, UK) lives and works in London having graduated from Fine Art Painting (BA Hons) at the University of Brighton in 2022. Their practice captures the everyday experience through an investigation of improvisation and chance within painting. Shakespeare has had two solo shows including Wobbly Knee with Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne in 2023 and Frontal Dancer at the Fitzrovia Gallery, London in 2022.

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Email claire.shakespeare@outlook.com

Instagram @claireshakespeare_

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Artist Statement

 

My practice deals with process-based painting, both abstract and representational in form. Through a negotiation between intention and the accidental, works embody an internal discourse of doubt to reveal qualities such as humour, awkwardness and intimacy. Informed by oddness, works reflect on still moments captured by zoomed-in photos of cracks in the floor, field lines, and shadows of boats and branches, situations imbued with a sense of relatable solitude. While representation is not central, these images provide a framework for playful open-ended investigations between formal aspects of painting. Through endless dissatisfaction and decision making, works go through an arduous process of building, destroying and re-layering until new forms realign. Resulting works reflect both observed and internal contradictions that arise in oneself often imitating parts of the body or landscape, which in turn become visual innuendos.

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