Artist
Claire Shakespeare
Claire Shakespeare (b. 1998, Stourbridge, UK) lives and works in London having graduated from Fine Art Painting (BA Hons) at the University of Brighton in 2022.
Their practice captures the everyday experience through an investigation of improvisation and chance within painting. Shakespeare has had two solo shows including Wobbly Knee with Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne in 2023 and Frontal Dancer at the Fitzrovia Gallery, London in 2022.
"Driven by impulse and material processes, works incorporate the act of painting as a means of searching for familiarity in the unknown. Through processes of scraping back a painterly excess and re-layering, previous unfinished works are resurrected allowing re-occurring motifs to unexpectedly align and reveal new paintings." - Claire Shakespeare
