Claire makes dialogical work with a somewhat kitsch sensibility, revolving around themes of loss, love, memory, place and the value of those.

Claire presents personal memorial works made with emotions of loss and grief, experienced during the pandemic and the continuing war on Ukraine. She has worked an invisible, ethereal, intangible aura of love and hope around memories of a people through tiny pieces of treasure.  

Desire Lines: Art, Place & Possibilities at MIMA

27 November 2025 – 12 April 2026

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Essays

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2018
2018

An anthropological investigation of the Chornobyl Babushka - A Photographic Response

2019
2019

An experiential investigation into the embroidery practices of the Chornobyl Babushka

2021
2021

Babushka as Icon - Research through Practice and the Importance of the Sketchbook

2023
2023

Continuing Textile Practice with the Babushkas of Chornobyl – reflections on loss, emotional labour and working through the complexities of global catastrophes

2025
2025

Making relationships: the value of dialogical practice with a lost community in the Chornobyl exclusion zone