Claire Taylor BA

Claire graduated in Visual Art from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where her interest in photography and printmaking began. She currently uses photography, Cyanotypes, printmaking and videos. Her work is concerned with the tracing of light, the passing of time and the recording of shadows. Poetry, phrases and experiences inspire her practice.

• Painting and Performance: Capturing the Body in Motion,Royal Academy of Arts Academic Program, London, (2023)

• CPD Time to Reflect, UWE Bristol, (2022)

• Mentoring Programme, Newlyn School of Art, Cornwall (2020)

• Defining Practice Newlyn School of Art, Cornwall (2019)

• Art in Mental Health, Foundation and Practical Applications; Insider Art, Exeter (2012-2013)

• BA Hons. Visual Art, University of Wales, Aberystwyth (1990)

• Foundation in Art, Symondsbury College, Dorset (1985)

Exhibitions and Residencies

• 2024 Curator for, and contributor to, South West Dance Hub Exhibition Walkway Gallery, Phoenix Arts Centre, Exeter

• 2022 Group Exhibition ‘Transitory’ PZ Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall

• 2022 Solo exhibition ‘Alchemy of Light’ Fish Factory Arts, Penryn, Cornwall

• 2022 Residency, Fish Factory Arts, Penryn, Cornwall

• 2022 Selected for Greenhill Arts Open Exhibition

• 2021 Residency Mayes Creative, ‘Dark Skies, Wild Seas - Coverack, Cornwall.

• 2021 ‘Pandemonium’ Group Show PZ Gallery Penzance

• 2020 Group Exhibition Chapel House, Penzance, Cornwall

• 1990 Photographs in the collection of the National Library of Wales

• Intaglio Prints held in private collections