Claudia Carr

About

Claudia Carr's work explores the territory between 'still life' and 'landscape', between the intimate and the epic. Carr paints from the landscape of debris and clutter, organic material and small plastic animals that accumulate in her studio. Because of specific lighting conditions, random juxtapositions of objects, and the process of long slow looking, the perception of scale is skewed and the spaces become ambiguous, evoking prehistoric/post apocalyptic wildernesses, wastelands, secret gardens and savannahs.

ART EDUCATION

1993-1995 Slade School of Fine Art , London
1991-1992 MA Postgraduate Higher Diploma in painting Academia di Belle Arte, Florence
1987-1991 Slade School of Fine Art, London ' BA Degree

ART EMPLOYMENT

2001-present Visiting lecturer at Royal College of Art, London
1995-2005 Visiting lecturer at Slade School of Fine Art, London
1995-present Visiting lecturer at Heatherlys School of Fine Art, London
1995-1998 Visiting lecturer at Canterbury University
1995-1998 Visiting lecturer at University of Hertfordshire
1991-1993 Fresco Restoration, Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007Claudia Carr, New Paintings, Browse And Darby, London 2005'Between Territories', 5 Blenheim Crescent, London W11

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS FROM 1995

2007'Options In Realism', Jason Mccoy Gallery, New York
2006'Mixed Show', Browse & Darby, Cork St, London W1
2004'Still Life', Thompson Gallery, London W1
2003'End of Year Show', New Grafton Gallery, Barnes, London
2002'Fresh Paint 2', Maclean Fine Art, Cork Street, London, W1
2001Duncan Terrace Gallery, London N1
1999'The Importance of Drawing', Canterbury Museum, Kent
1999Duncan Terrace Gallery, London, N1
1997Four Man Painting Show, Slade Gallery, London WC1
1995Christies Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bond Street, London W1

AWARDS AND COMPETITIONS

2008'John Moores 25' Painting Prize', (shortlisted)
2006'Celeste Painting Prize', (shortlisted)
2006'John Moores 24 Painting Prize', (shortlisted)
1994'Windsor and Newton Young Artist 1994 Award', (first Prize)
1993Nat West 90's Prize for Art, (shortlisted)
1991'Boise Travel Scholarship'
1991-92Italian Government Scholarship
1990'Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship', Yale University, Conneticut, USA
1988RodneyBurnPrizefor'BestFigurativeWork',Slade School of Fine Art

COLLECTIONS

Cable and Wireless
National Westminster Bank
Paul Smith
University College London
Private Collections in Europe and America