Claire Barclay

Claire Barclay was born in 1968 in Paisley, Scotland. She completed a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Department of Environmental Art at the Glasgow School of Art in 1990 and subsequently completed a MFA at the Glasgow School of Art in 1993. She lives and works in Glasgow. Barclay's practice often incorporates objects and materials which are familiar yet, when collectively assembled, resist yielding simplistically to metaphor and analogy, thus putting into crisis the very conventions through which meaning is codified. Her carefully considered compositions rely on a rigorous formality that is disrupted by the suggestive ...