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The shadow of Barbara Hepworth may still loom large over female sculpture in Yorkshire.
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Claire Barclay’s sculptural installation occupying gallery 2 at the Whitechapel, will, by the end of its exhibition, have been in situ for nearly a year
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The University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery presents a series of commissions realised in collaboration with Artlink as part of Ever / Present /
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Born in 1968 in Paisley, Scotland, Claire Barclay lives and works in Glasgow. Barclay primarily uses sculpture and installation. Her meticulous, often site-specific works first appear as though they have been organically built. Assembled out of found objects and handcrafted pieces, these architectural installations are poised in a precarious balancing act, both physically and metaphorically. Barclay’s attention to material – fur, brass, oak, leather, steel – invests her pieces with an auratic quality that contributes to their overwhelming atmospheric tension. Oscillating between domestic utility and fetishistic totem, her pieces intimate a grand narrative, at once personal and universal, composed of ideal types built up through the recurring use of particular objects, materials and motifs.
Upcoming projects include “Tramway, Glasgow, UK (2016); Longing Lasting, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2015-2016); Claire Barclay: Overworkings, Touchstones Rochdale, Lancashire, UK (2015); Claire Barclay, Another Kind of Balance, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (2013-2014); Spans”, The Bloomberg Commission at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010). Claire Barclay has recently presented solo exhibitions at Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2009), Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2009), Camden Arts Centre, London (2008), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (2007) and Tate Britain, London, as part of the ‘Art Now’ series (2005). Her work has also been included in “Overlap” at Glasgow Print Studios for the Glasgow International 2010, “Material Intelligence” at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2009), “If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history” at The Showroom, London (2006), “British Art Show 6” at Baltic, Gateshead (touring: Manchester, Nottingham, Bristol) (2005) and “Zenomap”, the Scottish Pavilion for the 50th Venice Biennale (2003).
Claire Barclay Stephen Friedman Gallery, London.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
