Photographic Visual Artist
ABOUT ME
My inspiration is taken from people, objects, belongings and memorabilia that surround us every day. As an avid collector and self confessed hoarder of mundane and quirky items, I assemble my treasures into still life photographs a form of visual story telling. My earlier work used traditional photography practices; however majority of my current work has been photographed digitally. I endeavour to re-present these items and paraphernalia to inspire the viewer and myself as an artist. The composition, arrangement and layout of my 'collections' are uncluttered and often direct. Simplistic lighting and balance are fundamental with each collection. I like the viewer to be challenged on many levels - nostalgia, aesthetic or simply by a personal association of such curiosities. I like to evoke an emotion by producing bizarre collections so the images form a contemporary archive. In addition to still-life work, portraiture is also used to communicate, connect and explore who we are. To me, the mundane is never mundane.
Exhibitions & Publications
RECENT & HIGHLIGHTS:
2021 - CUPOTY Shortlist (Plant & Fungi) https://www.cupoty.com/plants-shortlist-03
2021 - Shutter Hub 2021 Year Book - Selected Work Included
https://shutterhub.org.uk/exhibitions/yearbook-2021/
2021- AxisWeb - FIVE2WATCH Feature
https://www.axisweb.org/five2watch/2021/five2watch-photography/
2021 - Artdoc Magazine - Experimental Photography Magazine Featured Artist https://www.artdoc.photo/online-exhibition/experimental-photography
2021 - August - Proud 2nd place (& 4th Pace) winner of the 'Potato Photographer of the Year 2021'
https://www.photocrowd.com/photo-competitions/photography-awards/potatopoty-2021/#section-1692
2021 - How I see you - Float Magazine, on-line exhibition artist
https://www.floatmagazine.us/online-exhibitions/exhibitions/how-i-see-you
(https://shutterhub.org.uk/exhibitions/how-i-see-you/)
2021 - OpenWalls Arles 2021
Then & Now - selected image. (1854 Media and British Journal of Photography)
https://www.1854.photography/awards/openwalls/winners-2021/
2021 - May - LoosenArt -Language Exhibition Millepiani Rome
2021 - Artist Talk Magazine -Issue 15 -
https://www.artisttalkmagazine.com
2021 - “Finding a Way Home” - English Riviera Showcase - Launch 20/4/2021 - May 16th 2021
https://www.art-hub.co.uk/ex/erps21
2021 - X-Collab 2021 - contributor
https://www.thexcollab.com/01-blue
2021 - Artdoc - Photography Magazine
Selected - Narrative Portraits Exhibition
https://www.artdoc.photo/online-exhibition/narrative-portraits
2021 - Passepartoutprize - Winner ( 2nd edition) group exhibition planned for sept https://www.passepartoutprize.com/winners-2
2021 - Format Festival - Several works included in 'The Peoples Picture' Mosaic.
2021 - Selected work ( Now and Then) LCB depot 'Film' Show Event March http://www.lcbdepot.co.uk/event/film
2021 - LoosenArt - International group exhibition Instability and Precariousness curated by LoosenArt2020
Exhibition runs 15th-22nd April
(Millepiani Rome)
2020 - The South West Collective - Short List - The Pandemic In Pictures Prize Shortlist (selected work shortlisted)
www.thesouthwestcollective.co.uk
https://thesouthwestcollective.co.uk/pandemic-in-pictures-prize-shortlist-clair-robins/
2020 - Artists Responding to...The Post Card Project ( Selected work included in publication)
2020 - Rankin2020 - Shortlisted/Published image from part of the Rankin2020 series on Sky Arts (Profits from the book will be donated to Mental Health UK
2020 - European Photography 107/108 inclusion
https://equivalence-shop.com/European-Photography-107-108
2020 - PMN (Magazine) Selected Artist Issue 1 'Embodiment' www.paintmenickel.com
2020 - L.O.V.E ART Selected Artist 2020
2020- Newwalk and Museum Art Gallery - Open 31 selected work.
2020 - Inspired by Lockdown - (Sept-Dec) Selected pieces projected in Leicester Newwalk museum and art gallery Victorian Gallery and in virtual exhibition 'reflecting 'lockdown 2020'
2020 - Short listed in CUPOTY (close up photographer of the year) - Manmade Category
www.cupoty.com/manmade-shortlist-02
2020 - Selected images on the 'Sock Gallery' Virtual Exhibition on instagram
2020 - Flea Circus Magazine Contributor - First Edition Selected Artist (Printed volume 1 - Sept 2020)
https://www.flea-circus.org/shop
2020 - Nottinghamshire Wildlife trust - POSTCARD SHOW (planned for 2021)
2020 - Selected - Saatchi 'selected' Favourites (#FoodArt) '#SaatchiTakeOver' (instagram)
2020 - Art-Hole-Magazine (a-hole) - Volume 1 -Selected artist www.ahole.co.uk
2020 - The CLUNKER - 2020 line up (postponed due to CV19)
2020 - Dot-Dot-Dash - SURFACE GALLERY Nottingham
2020 Public Source - PS contributor - covoid 19 archive covid19.publicsource.xyz
2020 - Pretext: The Mask We Wear - (Selected Works included) The Hidden Half and Concealment of Self) a visual and contextual response exhibited at Curve (Leicester), as part of the wraparound activities connected to DMU Pride Festival 2020 and Andrew Lloyd-Webber & Cameron Mackintosh’s sell-out production of Phantom of the Opera. The festival is curated by DMU students - Feb 18th 2020 - March 14th 2020
2019 - Dangerous Pockets Project - A community art collaboration - Inspired by a poem 'Dangerous Coats' by Sharon Owens. Facilitated by artist Paula MacGregor
2019 - Open 30 - New Walk Museum (15th Dec - Jan 25th 2020)
2019 - L.O.V.E Art - LOVEArt the Leicester Open Variant Exhibition CURVE Leicester Monday the 14th of October - 24th November 2019
2019 - 100 ARTISTS POP UP SHOW LEICESTER - DIY GALLERY & Art At The Chapel
2018 - The Cank Street Gallery Show Case Leicester JUNE - AUGUST https://www.cankstreetgallery.co.uk/collections/summer-open-2018 selected work from unnecessary-usage
2017 Selected images for: artonapostcard
2017 - Work selected for 'Open 28'
http://www.visitleicester.info/things-to-see-and-do/arts-museums/exhibitions/open/ work
2017 - Selected works at 'Cank Street Gallery' Leicester Open
2017 - Selected image for ' Magnum Swap Show' @ Print Space London June 2017 https://www.theprintspace.co.uk/blog/swap-shop-shortlist
2016 - POINTS OF DEPARTURE - Leila Houston, James Chantry & Members of Silver Vine Arts
2016 - Open 27 (New Walk Museum) leicester
2015 - Silver Vine Arts - Summer Trail Exhibitor August 22nd - 31st / Former Existence Images on display at Queen Of Bradgate 97 High Street Leicester LE1 4JB
http://summerarttrail.weebly.com
http://www.lcbdepot.co.uk/event/summer-art-trail-2015
2014 - PH21 - http://www.ph21gallery.com Body Exhibition
https://www.ph21gallery.com/body
2014 - Photoplace Gallery (Middlebury, VT USA) - The Traces Left Behind - Butter, Bleach and Banana's - Selected work
(http://www.vtphotoworkplace.com) http://photoplacegallery.com/past-exhibit-archives/the-traces-left-behind/
2014 - Cank Street Gallery, Leicester (http://www.cankstreetgallery.co.uk)
2014 - Foto39 - Selected Work (http://www.foto39.org) http://www.foto39.org/2014-artists.html
2013 - Sandergram / Leicester People's Photography Gallery - Grandma's Shears http://www.leicesterpeoplesphoto.co.uk/the-sandergram-exhibition/
2009 - LCB Depot, View From This Side, Leicester (solo show)
2009 - Disappearing Traditions - Peeple Centre, Leicester, (International Womens Week Festival)
2008 - Lost and Found - City Gallery Open, Leicester
2000 - Selected works at the International Photography Exhibition, Atelier de maintenance, Arles, France
1992 - The Picture House Leicester - Museums in Motion Exhibition
1991-2012 Art works selected for The City Gallery Open - Granby Street and Newwalk museum, Leicester
