Claire Taylor MA

Claire is a multidisciplinary artist working with film, photography, sculpture and installation. Her work is concerned with the tracing of light, the passing of time and the recording of shadows. The stories that unusual and historic buildings have to tell inspire her practice.

• MA (with distinction) in Fine Art, UWE Bristol (2025)

• Awarded a Spike Island Associates Bursary (2025-2026)

• 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

• 2025 ‘Skin’ – Group exhibition, Centre Space, Bristol

• 2025 MA Fine Art exhibition, Spike Island, Bristol

• 2025 Spike Open Studios, MA Group Exhibition, Bristol

• 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