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Claudia Boese
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Yellow Horizontal oil on board 30×30cm
Fuchsia oil on linen 31×31cm
Blue Square oil on board 30×30cm
STATEMENT:
Claudia Boese focuses on the aesthetics of environments underpinned by the process of painting.
Since completing her studies at the Royal Academy Schools she has been drawn to places which could be described as borderlands, geographically and psychologically. She has lived and worked in London, Berlin, the Baltic island of Rügen, Ireland, Spain and Poland. Since 2002 she has been based in the English coastal county of Suffolk .
Claudia Boese is not simply depicting her inspirations but is in engagement with the reality of the painting itself, its creation and the handling of materials.
CV:
ART EDUCATION
1996 Postgraduate Diploma, painting, Royal Academy Schools, London
1993 BA Fine Art, painting, Central St Martins School of Art and Design, London
1989 Fine Art Foundation Course, The City Lit, London
SELECED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
16.4.1. Plane Site Gallery, Dublin
Mixed Show, Eyestormdesign Gallery, Ipswich
Affiliations, Murphy & Bose, Reunion Gallery, Felixstowe
2008
Anonymous Drawings No 9, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Mixed Show, Eyestormdesign Gallery, Ipswich
Works on Paper, Elysium Art Space, Swansea
Muzeum Historii , Galeria "Magiel", Katowice , Poland
2007
Belmont Mill Artists, Murphy & Bose, Ferbane Public Library , Ireland
Plener, ZPAP Galeria "Art 2 Nova", Katowice, Poland
2006
Roderic Barrett and his students, Chappel Galleries, Essex
The Big Shed, Iken, Suffolk
2005
Gracias, Fundacion Valparaiso, Andalucia, Spain
open2art, 13 Venues, Ipswich
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 You then, you now, Highgate Gallery, London
2007 The children of England, Phibbs & Fleming, Ferbane, Ireland
2006 Parallel woods in one building, Felixstowe
2005 The need to know, Endeavour House, Ipswich
Close-less, Ipswich Museum, Ipswich
2003 Pampered favourites, Basement Gallery, London
2002 Brot uns Spiele, Deutsche Bahn, Bergen, Rügen
2001 48 Stunden Neukölln, Kulturnetzwerk, Berlin
PRIZES
2002 Drawings for All, Prizewinner, Gainsborough House, Sudbury
Shortlisted for Vickers Award, Derby
1996 Sir Frank and Lady Short Prize, RA London
Armitage Prize, RA London
BMW Art Car, Young Daily Telegraph, London
1995 Landseer Scholarship, RA London
1993 Mid Art Prize, Dudley
AWARDS / GRANTS
2007 International Bursary Award, Arts Council Ireland
Travel grant, European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam
Project Funding,Juliet Gomperts Trust, London
2006 Individual Artist’s Grant, Arts Council England, East
2005 Individual Grant, making art work, Suffolk County Council
2004 Critical space, making art work, Suffolk County Council
1995 Royal Academy Schools Award
RESIDENCIES
2010 Ipswich School, Lent Term, Ipswich
2007 Belmont Mill, County Offaly, Ireland
2007 Plain Air Katowice, Poland
2005 Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain
2001 Institute of Politics and Economics, Haus Rissen, Hamburg
1998 Studio Passewalscher Hof, Berlin
LINKS:
www.bluetenweiss-berlin.de
blütenweiss was founded in October 2006 as an artist-run, temporary art-space.
www.belmontmill.com
Belmont Mill and Artist Studios are set in a water mill complex which dates back to the 18th Century. Located adjacent to the weir on the River Brosna in the Heartland of Ireland.
www.elysiumgallery.comElysium is an artist led organisation run by professional volunteers who share the same vision for artists of all media’s in Wales and the rest of Britain.
www.firstsite.uk.net
firstsite is a contemporary visual arts organisation based in Colchester with a mission to make contemporary art relevant to everyone.
www.galleries.co.uk
GALLERIES MAGAZINE. The UK's leading gallery guide, which also lists galleries' and artists' websites. www.julietgompertstrust.co.uk The Juliet Gomperts Trust is a small charity which gives financial support to artists who are resident in the UK.
www.newbloodart.com
A selection of work by Claudia Boese is for sale at NEWBLOODART.
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