Traces form the focus of much of Claire's work, where she uses line to respond to and record movement through spaces. Drawn marks record the motion of people on everyday journeys - deliberate strokes chart transient and fleeting moments. Using traditional drawing media alongside video recording and projection, Claire creates interventions in public spaces such as streets and public squares which interact and engage a passing audience. Line features in a broad range of ways, including graphite or ink drawings on paper or glass through to her more conceptual use of water on stone as seen in her recent Watermark work.
Claire Weetman lives in St Helens (UK), she works with communities to produce artworks, participates in residencies, exhibits regionally, nationally and internationally and often makes work in the public realm. Claire studied Fine Art at Liverpool John Moores University.
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A 'landscape of marginal encounters'
2012
Part of TRADING STATION
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Predominantly using line in her works, Claire Weetman
responds to and records movement through spaces.
Drawn marks record the motion of people on everyday
journeys - deliberate strokes chart transient and fleeting
moments. To capture these moments, Weetman often
works directly in public spaces, placing herself in the
centre of movement.
Works produced as part of riPOSTe look at journeys
made by people - crossing bridges, a bus ride, walking
along a street or across a city square. Various methods are
employed by the artist including filming moving people,
letting a drawn line be directly affected by movement or
placing structures in public spaces to alter and record the
movement of pedestrians.
The Passing, Watching, Waiting, Following drawings
were created using film, projection and interaction with
the public as they pass the artist documenting their
movements. Created in both Liverpool and Linz, these
interventions into public spaces confront the audience
with the process of creating artwork, allowing them
to influence and change the artist’s drawing - raising
questions over who is creating the artwork - the artist or
the passer-by?
Claire Weetman lives in North West England delivering
community art projects, residencies and public
art works. She studied Fine Art at Liverpool John
Moores University.
www.claireweetman.co.uk |
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