Claire Weetman, Visual Artist

Claire is known for her drawings, prints, installations, and public interventions that visualise how we navigate through spaces, connect with others, and observe the traces of things that are difficult to see. Claire’s work often involves creating with others, whether in education settings or public spaces.

Arts Education
Claire combines her contemporary art practice with cross curricular learning at educational settings including Primary, Secondary, Early years and Further Education.  Her projects in schools use Claire’s skills in drawing, sculpture, photography and animation to create artworks which can connect to PSHE themes such as community and responsibility, relationships and mental health. Sessions typically involve working as a team, encourage creative thinking , problem solving and develop a practical skill.

Socially Engaged Community Practice
Claire’s work brings people together through creativity to make a difference to people and places. Work includes supporting and advocating for other artists practices in programmes such as Reside*; developing projects since 2016 with people from global communities; and working with local organisations to create works that add a new layer of space where people can connect with each other. This work manifests as objects (Many Uses of a Blanket), performances (What are you waiting for?) or documents (Walking Together/Walking Apart).

Arts Production
Claire is an experienced project producer, using her experience in contemporary art, families, education and mental health to ensure a high quality outcome including delivery of heritage and cultural festivals, programmes of exhibitions in pop up spaces and cultural venues and community engagement programmes.