Approved: 24.06.2011

Claire Tindale

Artist, Graphic designer, Lecturer / academic, Project manager

Approved: 24.06.2011

With an interdisciplinary practice, I utilise the media and format most appropriate to the ideas and concepts being expressed with outcomes varying from 2D work through to video, installation and site-specific work. Thematically the work is predominantly concerned with exploring the workings of the human mind, in all its guises, whether it is an examination of the idiosyncrasies of the English language

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    Artist Statement

    With an interdisciplinary practice, I utilise the media and format most appropriate to the ideas and concepts being expressed with outcomes varying from 2D work through to video, installation and site-specific work. Thematically the work is predominantly concerned with exploring the workings of the human mind, in all its guises, whether it is an examination of the idiosyncrasies of the English language or an exploration of psychological or neurological disorders such as obsessive behaviour or dementia. At times found objects with their inherent resonance act as the catalyst for a piece of work, as is the case with 'Memory Loss', a limited edition artist book based on a found photograph album. This piece of work provoked further research into dementia and galvanised ideas for a new and expanding body of work, shown in the solo exhibition, 'Going Nowhere' in Bank St Arts Gallery, Sheffield. With an interest in revealing the extraordinary in the ordinary, objects may be interpreted, manipulated or juxtaposed to investigate the potential of emerging narratives. By subtly disrupting the familiar in this way, new meaning is conveyed. A copy of 'Memory Loss' is held in the Tate Special Collection in London. Claire Tindale is an artist, designer and educator.

    CV & Education

    Solo exhibitions

    2021 - Felt, Salts Mill, Saltaire
    2019 - Homeness, AIR Gallery, Altrincham
    2017 - When It's Gone It's Gone, A Small View, Liverpool
    2014 - Extracts, PS Mirabel, Manchester
    2013 - Downsizing, Gallery 333, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
    2011 - Going Nowhere, Bank Street Arts Gallery, Sheffield
    2004 - Façade, Chorlton Arts Festival, Manchester
    2001 - Date Related, Hope St Gallery, Liverpool
    2001 - The Year 2000, Year of the Artist and Year of Mathematics, Banana Gallery, Birmingham
    2001 - The Year 2000, Year of the Artist and Year of Mathematics, Exhibit Gallery, Sheffield 

    Group exhibitions 

    2021 - NHS, Paradise Works, Manchester
    2020 - Heavy Duty Paper, Division of Labour, Worcester
    2020 - Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery
    2019 - TIME after [ (  ) ] after TIME, The Briggait, Wasps, Glasgow
    2019 - Under British Skies, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
    2019 - GM Arts Prize, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
    2018 - BiblioTECH: From Bookshelf to Big Data, The Portico Library, Manchester
    2017 - In Nothing Flat, MDP StudioBook exhibition, Old Granada Studios, Manchester
    2017 - Politics of Paradise, Paradise Works, Manchester
    2017 - Intimate, Isherwood Gallery, The Old Courts, Wigan
    2017 - Drawing for Sculpture, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
    2017 - Small World, PS Mirabel, Manchester
    2017 - Echo Chamber, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
    2017 - Strange Little Things, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
    2017 - Play, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
    2016 - Miniature World, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
    2016 - Start Where You Are: Second Degree Potentias, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
    2016 - Process, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
    2016 - Migrate, Cross Street Arts, Standish
    2016 - You Fall into a Field, Scaffold Gallery, Manchester
    2015 - Health Records, CFCCA, Manchester
    2015 - Thinking / Making, Curious Projects, Eastbourne
    2015 - Shelf Life, PS Mirabel, Manchester
    2015 - A6 Dialogue 4, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
    2015 - Open House, In Certain Places, Preston
    2015 -  Unusual Space, 3irty 2wo Gallery, Scunhorpe
    2015 - This Into That: Found Object Art, Nave Gallery Annex, Boston, MA, USA
    2014 - Hankering for Classification, TOAST Will Host, Manchester
    2014 - PS Mirabel Open, PSMirabel, Manchester
    2014 - Fabricate, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield
    2013 - The Zeitgeist Open, Zeitgeist Arts Projects, London 
    2013 - Artifice, PSMirabel, Manchester
    2013 - Hot-One-Hundred, Schwartz Gallery, London
    2012 - 60 Drawings, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
    2010 - (e) motive, Artists Books exhibition, Artworks-mk, Milton Keynes
    2009 - 2nd Sheffield Artist's Book Prize, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
    2007 - All Beginning With, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
    2007 - Artists’ Books, Holden Gallery, Manchester
    2007 - Letters, Atkinson Gallery, Southport
    2006 - Another Product @ Cornerhouse, Cornerhouse, Manchester
    2006 - Artist Cut, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
    2006 - Post It, Atkinson Gallery, Southport
    2005 - Collections, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
    2005 - Mind Where You Look, Gallery Oldham, Oldham
    2005 - Take Me I’m Yours, Atkinson Gallery, Southport
    2004 - Secret Garden, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
    2003 - Draw in the Crowds, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
    2003 - MoDArchitecture, The Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Barnet, Herts
    2002 - It’s all in the Text, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud
    2000 - Frame by Frame, Mackie Mayor, Smithfield Market Hall, Manchester
    2000 - Spoof on the Roof, Chapman Gallery, Salford
    1999 - Notes from Underground, Dostoyevsky Museum, St Petersburg
    1997From Inside to Outside, MA Degree Show, Blackwells Building, MMU

    Artist talks

    2021 - Huddle, online presentation, project Felt
    2020 - Reflecting the Landscape, Artist discussion panel, Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk
    2019 - Visiting Arist Talk, University of Salford
    2019 - Visiting Artist Talk, Withington Girls School
    2019 - Visiting Artist Talk, University of Leeds
    2018 - Artist talk, connected to the work in Biblio:TECH, The Portico Library, Manchester
    2018 - 20:20 talk, Artist Jamboree, Dartington, curated by Low Profile
    2016 - Visiting Artist Talk, University of Salford
    2016 - 'Process' Artist Talks, Studio 20, Bankley Studios and Gallery, Manchester
    2016 - Visiting Artist Talk, Blackpool and Fylde College
    2015 - Manifest Calling, Home, Manchester
    2013 - Artist presentations, Matt Roberts, Alas Gallery
    1997 - Hyperconference of Art, River Bank Studios, Peterborough 

    Residencies

    2020 - Felt, Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire
    2016 - Potentias, Rogue Project Space, Manchester
    2015 - MSB15, three stage residency between Manchester, Sheffield & Birmingham
    2014 - Process Residency, PS Mirabel, Manchester
    2012 - Common Ground Collective Residency, Rogue Project Space, Manchester
    2012 - Hospital Artist in Residence, Royal Bolton Hospital, Bolton
    2011 - Allotment Residency, Bradley Fold Allotments, South Manchester
    2000 - NWAB Setting Up Scheme, cair, LJMU, Liverpool

    Projects

    2021 - Sounds at The Edges, delivery of workshop with PoRE, Manchester
    2004 - Secret Garden, Big Draw event - Project Manager, Bankley Gallery, Manchester
    2003 - Draw in the Crowds, Big Draw event - Project Manager, Bankley Gallery, Manchester

    Competitions, prizes and awards

    2019 - Shortlisted - GM Arts Prize, Manchester
    2017 - Prizewinner - PS Mirabel Open, Manchester
    2014 - Residency prize - PS Mirabel, Manchester
    2009 - Jury prize - 2nd Sheffield Artist's Book Prize, Bank Street Arts Gallery, Sheffield
    2000 - Martell Art Competition – prize winner, The Green Room, Manchester

    Educational experience - tertiary

    2012 - Visiting Lecturer in Photography, University of Salford, Salford
    2005 - present day - Lecturer, University of Leeds, Leeds

    Publications

    2016 - Guardian review, 11 November 2016: Miniature World, Castlefield Gallery
    2016 - Start Where You Are: Second Degree Potentias, exhibition publication.
    2015 - a-n, Art in certain places, news feature written by Bob Dickinson
    2013 - axisweb, Curated Selection Prize 2013, Helen Hillyard
    2009 - Memory Loss - Self-published Artist Book
    2001 - Responses: Intercultural Drawing Practice - LSAD
    1996 - Her Mind’s Eye - Pyramid Press

    Other

    2017 - Studio Book, Mark Devereux Projects, Manchester
    2014 - Northern Art Carbooty, Bassment, Manchester
    2013 - Northern Art Carbooty, Bassment, Manchester
    2010 - Memory Loss - Artist Book purchased, Tate Special Collection, London