Claire Barrett

Mark making has always been my most direct method to express myself and communicate with my body and surroundings. This, together with an exploration of process, sits at the heart of my practice. From this base I work outward exploring concepts of space, landscape, and phenomenology. Using chiefly ink and graphite, my practice can be seen as a mapping of my experience from inside my body. Limiting my palate to blacks and greys allows complete focus on the texture, tone and spacial qualities of my experience. Each work is a window into a monochrome paracosm, a single colour world of ink runs, explosions, and grotesque forms meticulously coerced from graphite.

I am interested in Eastern philosophies around the state of being as an unfixed in nature, everything shifting between dual points. With this in mind my practice is dotted with dualities: micro/macro, dark/light, chance/Intention, real/fantasy, internal/external.

Employing the language of landscape, I set out to make sense of the internal and external spaces of and surrounding my body, expressing it within a constructed terrain. The most palpable of these spaces are the solid surfaces of the spaces I live in. The more obscure and ethereal are the shifts in form and s...

MA Fine Art. Brighton University. 2017 - 2019

BA Honours, Fine Art. Upper Second Class. University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. 2006 -2009

Untitled: MA Fine Art Degree Show, July 2019.

The Clunker, June 2019. The Playhouse, Norwich.

Flanker, May 2019. The Fishing Quarter Gallery, Brighton.

128 Show #2, January 2019. 128 Project Space, Brighton.

128 Show, October 2018. 128 Project Space, Brighton.

Summer Show, July 2018. Grand Parade, Brighton University.

A Whiff of F.Art, June 2018. The Bees Mouth, Brighton.

Strange Edges, Dec 2017. 128 Project Space, Brighton.