Claire Tindale
Manchester
The miniature as a conceptual framework has become a focus of my current practice, which I use to explore physical and psychological spaces in connection with aspects of the human condition.
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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.
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
1997 - From 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
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