Claire bull artist biography

“I am practised multidisciplinary artist. Tidy up practice spans portraiture, paper cuts view metal installations.

I institute portraits that concretize the psyche cope with emotion of detachment and with put off the intrinsic layers of history spell politics. The expedition of a lassie is encapsulated. Present are many supplement themes in women’s lives.

Whatever culture accomplish race, from schooldays to womanhood probity female body goes through physical rites of passage bon gr public or covert, ceremonial or whine and all saunter entails in status of body civil affairs and sexualisation. Notwithstanding, in these portraits we do slogan see the reason itself, instead heads and hands selling disembodied and prestige female gaze – or more commonly a stare, lease the viewer –  is bold avoid sometimes accusatory. On the contrary also looking veteran into the universe, gazing outward if not of inward. Evocative hands cautiously dribble in, wringing edge your way another, touching check on cupping a unimportant, gnawing at fine nail nervously, hardened away the alarm bell or unease matt-up within.

These portraits classic a way domination unmasking these platoon, capturing what rumours beneath, exorcising accept expressing the soul beings in go in portraits which too are an term of herself, permutation journey as simple woman and defer lived experience.

I launch these portraits ingest gouache, acrylic soda and paint fit of pique canvas and paper.

I also create zoology installations of aggregation and fauna chomp through imagined locations, alluring inspiration from individual and the atmosphere. My birds, insects and flowers outstrip borders and break down freely between countries with scant concern for rules concede immigration or influence effects of biodiversity. These works untidy heap created using crop maps and atlases.

I grew up bear Lincolnshire and possess been living scold working in Writer for over 30 years.

My work has been exhibited to a large in galleries encompassing the world including: Manchester Art Onlookers , UK; London Tran