| Clare
Yarrington
Artist’s
Statement
I am interested in
how our environment has been formed and how we interact with it. This
dynamic relationship embraces the elemental forces of nature and the concepts
of how we experience time. Both in the way I work and in the subject matter
I use there are resonances with the geological processes of building up
and wearing away of rock and sediments and with the fragmented way we
remember past experiences. Using in situ (on-the-spot) drawings and other
source work I explore these themes in large drawings, sequences of images
and complex collages. The collages develop through a virtual archaeological
process as I sift through fragments of ‘evidence’ (scraps
of previously discarded work) and then piece together by matching line,
colour or pattern etc. This process of layering, with additional drawing
and painting, further parallels the archaeological process by its transformation
of the fragments of evidence and ideas into some sort of coherent possibility.
However there is always an inherent ambiguity over exact meanings and
the need for imagination to follow up suggestions as the perspective shifts.
Blairhill Gardens,
Rumbling Bridge, Clackmannanshire, nr. Kinross KY13 0PU
Telephone 01259 781278 fax 01259781425
e-mail clare@bgardens.demon.co.uk
Employment
and education:
1996 – present Self-employed, Artist
1987 – 1996 Illustrator (Archaeology) Art Gallery and Museums Dept.
Arts and Recreation Division, Aberdeen City District Council
1986 – 1987 Self-employed, Artist
1982 – 1986 City of Sheffield Polytechnic BA (Hons) Fine Art
1980 – 1984 Contract Archaeologist in Scotland and England
1976 – 1980 University of Edinburgh MA (Hons) ArchaeologyOther employment
Workshops on collograph printmaking, drypoint, collage and life drawing
Art workshops for children for Fife Council, Clackmannanshire Council
and Muckhart Primary School
Lectures/talks on the theme of Art and Archaeology to adult education
groups, schools, museum groups.
Archaeology related art workshops for children for Marischal Museum, Aberdeen,
Carnegie Birth Place Museum, Dunfermline.
Commissions:
2004 ‘All Under the Sun’ stairwell art project for Saline
Primary School and Fife Council
1996 ‘Print River’ and ‘Working Hands’ - work
related pictures for the premises of commercial printers Waddington &
Ledger LTD, Elland, West Yorkshire
Societies:
1998 – present, committee member and exhibitions secretary of Fife
(Dunfermline) Printmakers Workshop,
2004 – present, member of the Society of Scottish Artists
1976 – present, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
1986 – 1996, member of Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen
1986 – 1996, member of Aberdeen Artists’ Society
Awards:
2003 Friends Prize for Derbyshire Open, Buxton
2003, 2000 Ian Massie Memorial Quaich, Dunfermline
1987, 1989, 1991, 2000 commendations for Derbyshire Open, Buxton
1994 Printmakers Council exhibition prize, Newcastle
Collections:
Work held in public and private collections in Scotland, England and Wales.
Selected Exhibitions
2005
Wrexham Print
International, Wrexham & touring UK
Scottish Drawing Competition, Paisley
3 artists at Ottakars, Edinburgh
2004
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
Light and Dark, Edinburgh; Dunfermline & Fife
The Line, Linlithgow
A5 Project 2004, Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen
2003
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
A Walk in the Park, Centenary Exhibition, Pittencrieff Park
Clay and Canvas, Dunfermline
The Line, Linlithgow
2002
Print Open, Dundee
National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
Angus Open, Arbroath
Land, Sea and Beyond, Pittenweem Arts Festival, Fife
Celebration, Dunfermline & Fife
South Street Gallery, St Andrews
2001
Imprint 01, Inverness
Wrexham Print International, touring UK
Scottish Smalls, Glasgow and touring
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
Well Met, Dunfermline and Fife
2000
Colour of Fear, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal with Kendal Mountaineering
Film Festival
Impress5ive, Kirkcaldy & Aberdeen
Print Open, Dundee
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
Odyssey, Dunfermline and Fife
1999
Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh
Silver, Aberdeen
Editional Art - touring Scotland
1998
Like Father, Like Daughter, Buxton Art Gallery and Museums
The Art Market, Heffers, Cambridge
1997
Conoco, Aberdeen
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
The Making of Prints, Wakefield
Aberdeen Artist’s Society
Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen
1996
Exhibition 1, Artlink (touring Lothian hospitals)
Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
1995
The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool
Like Father, Like Daughter, Gordonstoun School, Morayshire
Fusion, Hardware Gallery, London
Paperworks, Dundee
Strathdon Arts Festival
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
Scottish Drawing Biennale, Paisley
Aberdeen Artist’s Society
1994
Paperworks, Dundee
Strathdon Arts Festival
Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen
Aberdeen Artist’s Society
1993
Art Voyage – Antipodes & the Elements, Southampton and touring
Australia
Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
The University of Dundee Paperworks, Dundee
Scottish Drawing Biennale
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen
Stathdon Arts Festival
1992
Two Generations of Art, Syllavethy Gallery, Alford
Strathdon Arts Festival
Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
1991
Print Europe, London and touring
Strathdon Arts Festival
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
The Printed Image, Scarborough
1990
Highland Printmakers, Inverness
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
Aberdeen Artist’s Society
1989
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Derbyshire Open, Buxton
Strathdon Arts Festival
Aberdeen Artist’s Society
Scottish Drawing Biennale, Paisley
1988
Images of Landscape, Chesterfield College of Technology and Arts
Smith Art Gallery, Brighouse
The Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, Bankside gallery,
London
Aberdeen Artist’s Society
1987
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
Exchange USA, touring USA
Prints with a Point, touring UK
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
Aberdeen Artist’s Society
Scottish Drawing Biennale. Paisley
Scottish Print Open, Glasgow & touring Scotland
1986
Scottish Mountaineering Film Festival, Dundee
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
Aberdeen Artist’s Society
1984
Grape Lane Gallery, York
Derbyshire Open, Buxton
1982
New Solen Gallery, Edinburgh
1981
Scottish Society of Women Artists
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