Claire Pestaille

Taking ownership of images from the past through the act of collage, my work establishes relationships and connections between the existence of one image and it's marriage with another. Photographs duplicated, cut up, divided and re-assembled like a jigsaw puzzle allow me to intervene with the authority of the original in order to create fresh readings born from the disruption of existing signs.


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1998 - 2000 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London

1994 - 1997 BA (Hons)1st, Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art, London

1993 - 1994 Foundation in Art, Camberwell College of Art and Design

Group Exhibitions
2013
-Wonderworks, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
-Lovin' it: Symbol and Contradiction, Bromer Art Collection, Switzerland
-The Looking Glass, Mirus Gallery, San Fransisco, USA
2012
-Saatchi Gallery A The Hyatt: One Giant Leap, Hyatt Regency Hotel, London
-The Santorini Biennale of Arts, Santorini, Greece
- Orleans House Museum, Richmond
2011
- Saatchi Gallery, The Future Can Wait, Channel 4’s New Sensations, Victoria House, London
- Charlie Sierra Lima, Charlie Smith Gallery
- Polemically Small, Klaipedia Center, Lithunaia
- The Future Can Wait presents Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
- Polemically Small, Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2010
- La Belle Dans Sans Merci, Vegas Gallery
- The Term Reality, Paul Stolper Gallery
- Paprophillia, Charlie Smith Gallery
- Art Blitz, Transition Gallery
- Demonology, Charlie Smith Gallery
- The Future Can Wait, Shorditch Town Hall
2008
- Promenades Insomniaques, Sleeping/dreaming in contemporary art,
curated by Marie Shek, involving Thomas Ruff, Mark Wallinger , Jean-Mark Bustamante, Sophie Calle, Susan Hillier, Annette Messanger, Andres Serrano,Passage de Retx, Paris.
- Same as it Ever Was, Painting at Chelsea 1990 – 2006, cur...