Website: www.clarecharnley.com

Qualifications

• 1971 BA (Hons) in Fine art, Leeds Metropolitan University
• 1989 MA in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art
   

Research Area
Issues of translatability, cultural ignorance and the politics of language both in a personal and global context.

Research Statement
I am curious as to how I can make art in and for a foreign context – i.e. where I do not have access to the intricacies and subtleties of a shared, lived cultural experience with my audience. Also, as someone who speaks English as a first language, I am aware of the political implications of that position as something I need to examine, and possibly confront. Another concern is to develop new ways of working with artists and theorists from other cultures, ways that acknowledge our different experiences and urgencies, while avoiding a process of homogenisation.

Research activities post RAE 2007

The Language Lesson (100 teachers and 1 pupil) Performance. UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Performance and Solo Exhibition; Hobusepea Gallerii. Tallinn Estonia. Funded by The British Council  

Launch of book So communication… translating each others’ words in Estonia  

Solo Exhibition; The Gift of Tongues, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery. Public lecture

Presentation at Artist to Artist conference, The Royal College of Art, organised by Visiting Arts

Presentations at Artrole conference on contemporary art in Kurdistan/Iraq;

•           Artsadmin, Toynbee Studion, London

•           Yorkshire Sculpture Park

•           Ferrens Gallery, Hull

 Word Exchange. Special Commission for Humbermouth Literature Festival

Invited member of cultural delegation to Kurdistan/Iraq organised by Artrole. A series of lectures, presentations and panel discussions at;
           Institute of Fine Art, Erbil
           University of Salahaddin Culture Centre
           Aram Gallery, Sulimaniyah
           Erbil College of Fine Art
           Sulymanyah Institute of Fine Art

Exhibition; International Trade Fair, Erbil, KUFKA HQ
Performance with Adalet Garminary, Arbil University
Performance with Wen Yau, Do Dao Festival Macao

Commissioned performance for Coastal Currents, Hastings 

Appointed Organiser of  ‘Live Connections’ – a mentoring scheme for live art practitioners run by New Work Yorkshire 

Shortlisted artist for The Northern Art Prize. Winner announced January 2009

Northern Art Prize exhibition, Leeds City Art Gallery.

 

Other Activities

Currently working with colleagues to finalise a pilot collaborative teaching project between The University of Lincoln and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil and organise staff exchanges, student exchanges, research group and exhibitions.

Ongoing work; The Misunderstandings Project

 

Exhibitions, screenings, publications and performances

2007

1. Hobusepea Gallerii. Tallinn Estonia. Solo Exhibition and performance
2. Book; So communication …Translating each other’s words. Edited with Katrin Kivimaa. Published by Estonian Art Accademy and B Press
3. Leeds Metropolitan Gallery. Solo Exhibition
4. DoDao Festival, China. Performance with Wen Yau
5. Coastal Currents, Hastings. Performance
6. Le French Mai Festival.’Our Voices’ curated by Loic Serot, Hong Kong. Screening
7. The Bengal Gallery, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Performance

2006

1. Exhibition and performance Living Art Museum, Reykjavik .Collaboration with Bryndis Ragnarsdottir with Bryndis Ragnarsdottir.
2. Performance; Casino Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain. Collaboration with Tanja Frank.

2005

1. Performance; Transborder Language, Beijing, China. In collaboration with artist/curator with Shu Yang
2. Performance;Performance Art Platform, Tel Aviv. Collaboration with Anat Pick.
3. Performance: Araith/Speech, National Eisteddfod, Caernarfon
4. Collaboration with poet Mererid Hopwood.
5. 5Performance: Parole/Speech, Perspective Antarctique, Galerie ÉOF, Paris
6. In collaboration with Françoise Vincent, Lecturer at Université Rennes, France.

2004

1. Screening:Kõne/Speech Parnu Videofest ja Rael Artel Esitlevad, Estonia
2. Performance and exhibition; Tullie House Art Gallery, Carlisle
3. Performance; Zamek Wyobraźni, Utska, Słupsk & Krakov, Poland in collaboration with Magda Sowierszenko.

2003

1. Exhibition and screening ; Lens-Leeds. Aorta Gallery. Chisinau, Moldova.
2. Exhibition;The War Effort, Holden Gallery Manchester Metropolitan University, 2003
3. Exhibition; Life Below. Landscapes Beneath Conscoiusness, Alternator Gallery, British Columbia, Exhibition; Below.Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.
4.  Exhibition; Taxi Gallery, Cambridge
5. Exhibition; ‘Look to this Day’ Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
6. Performance Naprosty Navrat Pamĕti, 9th Arts Festival on International Interdisclipinary Collaboration. Tabor, Czech Republic.In Collaboration with German director Lissy Moll and Canadian video maker Dominic Gagnon.
7. Performance: Discurso/Speech. Fuero de Campo,.XI Muestra Internacional de Performance. Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City Mexico. In collaboration with Guillermo Santamarina, curator at Ex Teresa Arte Actual.

2002

1. Group exhibition; untitled audio work ‘Wax for your Ears’ Underwood Audio, Underwood Gallery, London
2. Performance: Kõne/Speech. in collaboration with Katrin Kivimaa Kana Nahk International Live Art Festival, various towns in Estonia. Reviewed in Balttic/Scandanavian art press. Performance text published in Kunst.ee.

2001

1. Touring group exhibition; Girl; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield; Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans. Curated by Angela Kingston in association with the New Art Gallery, Walsall. 48 p colour catalogue ISBN:0946652538: Statement (300 words)
2. Exhibition; Egzotika, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Curated by Deimantas Narkevicius.
3. Exhibition; East of Eden, Spacex Gallery and other venues, Exeter
4. Artist’s book pest/pet distributed by Spacex Gallery, Exeter.
5. Exhibition; Day of the Unread.House Gallery, London, Waterstone’s, Piccadilly, London. Curated by Caroline Japp.
    

 

Awards

1. 2007 Residency at Britto Arts Trust, Dhaka Bangladesh
2. 2005 ACE 2004 Travel Award Matrix Art Projects
3. 2003 Arts Council of England Award
4. 2003 residency at West Walls Studios, Carlisle
5. 2003 Residency, Allenheads Arts Centre, Allenheads, Northumbria
6. 2003 British Council Award
7. 2001 British Council Travel

• nomination for the £10,000 Comme Ca Art Prize 2003
  nominated by Nigel Walsh, Curator Leeds City Art Gallery; Kirsten Lavers, Director, Taxi Gallery, Cambridge; Angela Kingston Independent Curator and Researcher in Drawing Wimbledon School of Art, Paul Rogers, Tallinn Academy of Art, Estonia.

 

Public Lectures

1. 2005 Hull Time Based Arts
2. 2005 Performance Art Platform, Tel Aviv. Two performances. Two lectures
3. 2003 Public lecture Taxi Gallery, Cambridge
4. 2003 Forum Tullie House Art Gallery, Carlisle
5. 2003 ‘The Personal was Political’ panel discussion in front of public audience chaired by Dave Beech. Invited panellist.
6. 2003 Public lecture Cesta, Tábor, Czech Republic

 

Archived works

• International Institute of Visual Arts (InIVA) archive
• Live Art Development Agency Archive
• Gulbenkian Foundation
• British Council