Claire Barclay

Born: Paisley, Scotland, 1968
Lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland

Education

1991-93
Glasgow School of Art

1986-90
Glasgow School of Art, Department of Environmental Art

One–Person Exhibitions (selected)

2008
Camden Arts Centre, London

2007
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Haus Salve Hospes, Braunschweig, Germany

2006
The Station, Bristol (commissioned for the British Art Show 6, Bristol)

2005
Silver Gilt, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Foul Play, doggerfisher, Edinburgh, Scotland

2004
Half-Light, Art Now, Tate Britain, London

2003
Ideal Pursuits, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland

2002
Some reddish work done at night, doggerfisher, Edinburgh, Scotland

2001
Welcome for Sea and Game, 24 Hour Window, Bulkhead, Glasgow, Scotland

2000
Homemaking, Project Space, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Take to the Ground, The Showroom Gallery, London

1998
Dream Catcher, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia

1997
Out of the Woods, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland

1996
Museum Intervention, Colonial Room, The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Australia
Claire Barclay, New Works, Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, Hobart, Australia

1994
Claire Barclay, New Works, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2006
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London

2005
British Art Show 6, Baltic, Gateshead, UK (touring exhibition)

2004
Dumbreck Marsh Project, Public Art Commission, Kilsyth, Scotland

2003
Zenomap, Palazzo Guistinian-Lolin, Venice Biennale, Italy
This was Tomorrow, New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK

2002
Howl, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australia
Dragon Doll, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
Any Where, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, USA
EU2, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Early One Morning, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Tra-La-La: British Sculpture in the Sixties (Early One Morning display), Tate Britain, London

2001
Here and Now, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
The Hoorn of Glasgow, Mariakapel, Hoorn, Holland
Attacking Mud, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow, Scotland
G3 NY, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA
Circles 4, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

2000
If I Ruled the World, Part 2, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
The Blue Chamber, Duff House, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Bush Mechanics, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Museum Magogo, Independent Studios, Glasgow and Stripp Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

Awards and Residencies

2007
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artist’s Award

2000
Three Year AHRB Fellowship, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

1997
Scottish Arts Council Artist’s Award
Artist in Residence, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia
Artist in Residence, Millennium Project, Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland
Scottish Arts Council Australian Residency

Bibliography (selected)

2006
Bradley, Fiona, Artist: Claire Barclay, MAP, Issue 5, Spring
Woodley, Caroline, Claire Barclay: Silver Gilt, MAP, Issue 5, Spring

2005
Herbert, Martin, Claire Barclay, Time Out, London, 2 - 9 November
Mahoney, Emma, British Art Show 6, (catalogue), Hayward Gallery Publishing
Long, Camilla, 24-Hour Arty People, Tatler, September
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, Top Five Galleries, Sunday Herald, 21 August
Black, Catriona, Claire Barclay: Foul Play, Sunday Herald, 21 August
Mottram, Jack, Foul Play: Claire Barclay, The List, 18 August
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, The dark side of the rainbow, The Times, 17 August
Macmillan, Duncan, Hanging Together, The Scotsman, 16 August
Gale, Iain, Welcome to the spirit world, Sunday Herald, 14 August
Black, Catriona, An act of balancing, Sunday Herald, 14 August
Mottram, Jack, Claire Barclay, Sunday Herald, 7 August
Didcock, Barry, Claire Barclay: Foul Play, Sunday Herald, 7 August

2004
Carey-Thomas, Lizzie, Half-Light, Tate Britain, London, 3 July – 12 September

2003
Morton, Tom, Dark Matter, Frieze, Nov/Dec
Blazwick, Iwona and Tarsia, Andrea, Eds. Ideal Pursuits, (catalogue), Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
Blazwick, Iwona and Tarsia, Andrea, Eds. Early One Morning, (catalogue), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

2002
Wilson, Lucy, EU2, a-n for artists, November, pg. 7

2001
Brown, Katrina, Ed. Here and Now, (catalogue), Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland
Take to the Ground, (catalogue), The Showroom Gallery, London

2000
Lind, Maria, Ed. Moderna Museet Projeckt, Sweden