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CLARE TWOMEY
Born in 1968, UK. Lives and works in London, UK.
Clare Twomey is a British artist and a research fellow at the University of Westminster who works with clay in large-scale installations, Sculpture and site-specific works. Over the past 10 years she has exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate, Crafts Council, Museum of Modern Art Kyoto Japan, the Eden Project and the Royal Academy of Arts.
Within these works Twomey has maintained her concerns with materials, craft practice and historic and social context.
Clare Twomey’s installations have the social and historical context in which the installation is created as their point of departure. Often they only exist within these frameworks. A number of her installations disappear or perish in the course of the exhibition period as part of the work. Often the onlooker’s mode of behaviour is conceptually included in Twomey’s works. This, for example, applied to the artwork Conscience/Consciousness (2003), in which Twomey had covered the floor of the gallery with very thin ceramic tiles which broke when trodden on.
Clare Twomey is actively involved in critical research in the area of the applied arts, including writing, curating and making. She has developed work, which expands the fields’ knowledge of larger scale installation works. |  |
SITE SPECIFIC EXHIBITIONS
2011 Collecting the Edges - Denver Art Museum.
2011 Is it madness. Is it beauty. - Rotor - Siobhan Davies. London. Present Traces - Ceramics in Contemporary Art.GI Holdegard. Denmark.
2010 Forever - Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City. USA A Dark Day In Paradise - Brighton Pavilion.UK Specimen - Royal Academy of Arts. London
2009 The Collection - Raphael Gallery V&A. London Scribe - House of Words - Dr.Johnson's House.London.UK Monument - MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. UK Monument - Zuiderzee Museum, Holland.
2008 Witness - Jerwood Contemporary Makers, London
2007 Blossom - Eden Project, Cape Farewell collaboration, UK
2006 Trophy - Victoria & Albert Museum, London RAW - Northern Clay Centre, MN, USA
2004 The Secret History of Clay - Tate Gallery, Liverpool. UK Approaching Content - Crafts Council. London
2004 Heirloom - Mission Gallery, Swansea.
2003 Gibbsite Stables - National Trust, Temporary Installation. Gateshead. UK
2002 Still - Applied Arts Agency, London
2002 North Ceramics Events - Burton Gallery, Bideford Watching Change - Sirius Arts Centre, Cork
1998 The Collective Gallery - Edinburgh. |  | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Think Tank - Contemporary Applied Arts, London
2006 White Spirit - Foundation Bernardaud, Limoges, France
2002 Gun Show - Soil Gallery, Seattle, USA Guns and Roses - Transit, London
2001 Kaphenberg Biennial - Austria, Denmark IST World Ceramic Biennial - Korea. (Awarded certificate of merit) Porcelain Triennial - Nyon, Switzerland. (Awarded City of Nyon Exhibition prize) Manises Biennial De Ceramica - Spain Museum of Modern Art - Kyoto, Japan. Edinburgh Makers.
1999 Ceramic Contemporaries 3 - London, Edinburgh, Stoke on Trent. (Awarded Exhibition Prize) 51st Concorso Internazionaledella Ceramica d’Arte Contemporanea - Faenza, Italy
AWARDS
2009 ACE funding Specimen - Royal Academy
2006 ACE funding Trophy V&A
2004 AHRC Research Fellow - University of Westminster, London
2002 London Arts Board - London Visual Arts Artist Fund.
2001 City of Nyon Exhibition Prize - Porcelain Triennial Exhibition Selected Makers index Crafts Council
1999 Exhibition Prize - Ceramic Contemporaries 3
1998 Royal British Sculpture Society - membership award.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Swiss National Museum - Nyon, Switzerland MuseoInternazionale Della Ceramiche - Feanza, Italy Hungarian National Ceramics Collection - Kesckemet Hungary Great Ormond Street Hospital - Arts Project. Entrance Atrium Sculpture. The Wedgwood Collection- national archive. Victoria and Albert Museum - London | | ACADEMIC INFORMATION
1991 - 1994 Edinburgh College of Art, BA (Hon’s) Ceramics
1994 -1996 The Royal College of Art, MA Ceramics and Glass
1998 - 2000 Visiting Lecturer Edinburgh College of Art
2000 -2005 Lecturer - University College For the Creative Arts - Farnham
2005 -2009 AHRC Research Fellow University of Westminster
2009 – present Research Fellow University of Westminster
AWARDS
2011 AHRC Behind the Scenes at the Museum - University of Westminster, London
2010 ACE funding Specimen, The Royal Academy
2004 AHRC Research Fellow -University of Westminster, London
2002 London Arts Board, London Visual Arts Artist Fund.
2001 City of Nyon Exhibition Prize, Porcelain Triennial Exhibition Selected Makers index Crags Council
1999 Exhibition Prize, Ceramic Contemporaries 3
1998 Royal British Sculpture Society, membership award.
Ceramics Research Centre – UK Researcher – Clare Twomey
The Ceramics Research Centre UK is a leader in the debates surrounding international contemporary ceramic practice. Critical discussion is essential to the maturity of our discipline, we are committed to exhibiting and publishing as well as hosting and participating in conferences, symposia and dialogues. Our interests span ceramic installation, art practice, ceramic history, the interface between ceramics and performance and museology.
The Ceramics Research Centre is building on the strong profile of its members and their international activities. |