The Scottish Sculpture Workshop is an amazing place in the North of Scotland, which provides artists with the rare combination of being able to both think and make. It is set is a small village next to the Cairngorms, a two day drive for me from London and far away from everything. There are rooms on site along with a foundry, iron casting, a forge and metal, wood and ceramic workshops and wonderful technical support from Eden Joly and Uist Corrigan.
Clare is a London-based artist who makes coloured sculptures. Her practice tackles the dilemmas of 21st century living – technology, consumerism, migration – and how we find compromises to navigate them. Using wood, stainless steel, bronze, concrete, resin, plastic and clay, she sites works in groups or in locations that draw gentle attention to the issue in question. Clare has completed site-specific installations in spaces such as Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation, Brompton and Norwood Cemeteries, Bishopsgate Square and the Royal Society of Sculptors. She has shown outdoor sculpture at Meadow Arts, Cheeseburn, Hannah Peschar, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer and in Hengshui City. Solo exhibitions include Art Seen, Nicosia, Unit One WorkshopIGallery, Leighton House Museum, William Benington Gallery, University of Leeds, Studio M74 in Mexico City and and she has shown at the RA, the National Gallery, the Jerwood Space, the RIBA and the Royal Society of Sculptors.
