Claire Brewster
Goodbye Paris
£1,725.00
£1,725.00
Mixed Media
Whatever You Got I Want It
£450.00
£450.00
Mixed Media
There's A Gulf Between Us
£395.00
£395.00
Mixed Media
Seaflower
£395.00
£395.00
Mixed Media
Don't Call Me Red
£395.00
£395.00
Mixed Media
Demanding East
£395.00
£395.00
Mixed Media
Cumberland Bugs
£2,250.00
£2,250.00
Mixed Media
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Claire Brewster
Claire Brewster
‘Spring is a very inspiring time: I walk through a park every morning and the new life is so exciting to see,’ Claire Brewster
Claire Brewster is a paper artist, specializing in intricately cut, three dimensional installations. After being inspired by Lincolnshire’s flat, open landscapes as she grew up, she now lives in London and is fired up by her walks through parkland there. She studied Textiles at Middlesex University, specialising in tapestry and weaving, before creating her own works following graduation. Her work has been shown in Liberty and The Gallery at Adventure Ecology; she has fronted solo shows at Jaggedart and 18th Floor Centre Point, London and exhibitions of her work at galleries such as Gallerie Omphalos, Bari, Italy and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Texas are ensuring growth of her international reputation. Vogue, World of Interiors; Case da Abitare (Italy) and Inside Out (Australia) have all featured her work and she was a cover artist for Asiana Airlines’ magazine.
The ochres, rusty reds and moss greens of the old pages from atlases which Claire Brewster uses as ‘fabric’, evoke not literally the colours of birds and insects, but, more imaginatively, the landscape of the wider, natural world. There is a poignant connection between the obsolete nature of these discarded pages from outdated maps and the struggles of fragile-as-paper life forms, including many species of birds, to survive. The cut-outs are often captured in box frames. The shadows that appear when light shines on imbue them with a 3-dimensional quality, creating a theatrical sense of shadow puppetry and animation. They are also romantically reminiscent of Chinese lanterns.
These delicate works retain a sense of found treasure that has assured them maximum media coverage and makes them both beautiful and compulsively collectable.