Claire Hope is a UK based artist producing narrations of contemporary life as videos and performances. Using actors, action is caught between a sense of the everyday and an awareness of its choreography. Combining original writing, improvisation and existing content from the public realm, what begins as fragmentary is formed into a linear arrangement. These low-budget human dramas rearrange the ambivalences of contemporary culture and experience into overtly designed narrative journeys.
News
Claire is listed as one of '100 Artists to Watch' in the current Dec 2011/ Jan 2012 issue of Modern Painters Magazine.
Values, Efficiency and Commitment, part of Public Display a new LUX commissioned video programme, was shown in i/o/lab's Public Screens series in Stavanger, Norway from 2/5/11 until 8/8/11.
Details of Sky High Quality and In Great Shape new 18 minute video are now listed.
Claire was Artist of the Month for August 2010 on Axis Website.
Details of 2010 live performance in London A Determined Search beyond Romance are online.
Complex Financial Instruments (Parts One and Two) was shown in Complex Infrastructure a screening in Melbourne on 27/3/10 curated by Steven Ball.
Video can be viewed online as part of 2009 Solo Exhibition on Tank TV and at The Politics in the Room the first public project of the LUX Associate Artists Programme.
Sky High Quality and In Great Shape, 2011
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