DR CLARE BOOKER
ARTIST / HUMAN GEOGRAPHER
P R O FILE
I am a painter, experimental filmmaker and human geographer, exploring how spatial experience can be visually represented. My art practice is focused on how the methods of painting and collage can represent the spatial collisions and transitions experienced whilst occupying and navigating public spaces, both actual and virtual. In 2021 I completed a PHD in Human Geography, at Royal Holloway, University of London, where my research focuses on the space and place of airports. I look at these spaces via the technological gaze, using surveillance technologies such as Google Earth, Street View, Webcams, and own and appropriated video footage, as both a method to explore and observe, and as a visual method in which to generate new responses to the space.
I regularly exhibit work in galleries, online and present my research and practice at various conferences, both nationally and internationally. Alongside my art practice and research I teach Art & Design at Leeds City College.
EXHIBITIONS / COMMISSIONS / CONFERENCES
2024: Commission for Elle Decor Magazine, New York.
2024: Group Show; ‘BUILT’. Tinker Gallery, Ilkley, Leeds
2024: Interview for Contemporary Collage Magazine; Euro 24 Football project.
2024: Leeds Summer Group Show. Leeds Playhouse.
2023: Solo Show; ‘New Paintings’. Friends of Ham, Ilkley, Leeds.
2023: ING Discerning Eye exhibition. Mall Galleries, London.
2023: Feature in Wrap Magazine, Issue 13. Paradise
2023: Published Paper: An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm, published in Mobilities, Volume 18 Issue 3, available to access via tandfonline.com.
2023: Royal Water Colour Society Open Exhibition. Bankside Gallery, London.
2022: ING Discerning Eye exhibition. Mall Galleries, London.
2022: T2M 20th Annual Conference. Padua (Italy), 21-24 September 2022
‘Mobilities: Disruptions and Reconnections’
Paper/ Screening: Visualizing airport mobilities, through experimental
film and moving image
2022: Solo Show; ‘New Paintings’. Friends of Ham, Ilkley, Leeds.
2021: Solo Show; ‘Collage Cities’. Paper Gallery, Manchester
https://paper-gallery.co.uk/clare-booker-collage-cities
2021: Feature in Contemporary Collage Magazine, Issue 2.
https://www.contemporarycollagemagazine.com/
2021: Art and Mobilities Exhibition at the Im|mobile Lives in Turbulent Times Conference. July 8t & 9th. Northumbria University.
2021: Placecloud Expert. Viewpoint on Gatwick Airport, published June 2021. https://placecloud.io
2020: Solo Show; ‘Imagined Airports’. Paper Gallery, Manchester.
https://paper-gallery.co.uk/clare-booker-imagined-airport
2019: Institute of Australian Geographers Conference, Tasmania.
Film Screening / Paper:
Mobilising colours in geographical research: vibrancies, saturations and more-than-visual methods. (Airport Colour)
2019: RGS London
Film Screening / Paper:
Geographies of interactive digital narratives.‘'Re-imagining the airport through multi-media experimental narratives’
2018: Film Screening: Mobilities Symposium:. University of Waikato,
New Zealand
Mobilities, Stories, Movement and Art
2018: Exhibition of Art Practice: Art & Mobilities Conference. University of Lancaster
2017: RGS Conference Paper: RGS London.
CFP Digital methods as influences on research design in geography. Digital viewing environments as visual methods of research.
2016: Re-assembling Worlds. Clare Booker/Simon Ford. Dye House Gallery, Bradford.
2015. In the light of the Monochrome. Group Show. Dye House Gallery, Bradford.
2014: Group Show. Practice Gallery, University of London.
2012: 'Digital Romantics', Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax
2011: YCC Gallery, Bradford. 'Workers Playtime'
2010: Gallery 27, Cork Street, London. JHW Fine Art.
http://www.jhwfineart.com/pages/exhibitionthumbnails/6.html
2010: 'Out of Office' The Electric Works, Sheffield. http://www.facebook.com/OutOfOffice
2009: ‘Hot Desk’ Old Broadcasting House, Leeds.
2008: ‘Capture’ Zion Arts Centre, Manchester. Collaboration with Paul Holmes.
2007: Big Screen Animation, Centenary Square, Bradford.
Commission by FABRIC: ‘Bradford Blocks’: Collaboration with Studio 164
2007: The Lowry, Salford ‘One Love: The Football Art Prize’ http://www.thelowry.com/WhatsOn/EventDetail.aspx?EventId=2528
2006: ‘3264’ Work based on the Germany World Cup. Yorkshire Craft Centre Gallery, Bradford
2004: Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester:
BBCi interview: Jan 2004: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/arts/2004/01/13/ airport.shtml"
2003: Salford MA Creative Technology Final Show: Centenary Building Gallery
2003: Commission: Book Cover Design, Carcanet Press:
Matthew Welton;’The book of Matthew’
2001: Bankley Studios, Manchester :Open Studios Exhibition
1998: Painting Commission; Manchester United F.C / Atherton Fuller Architects Paintings commissioned for Salford Suite, North Stand, Old Trafford.
1996: Atlas Café Bar, Manchester . Group exhibition
1995: Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester :Group exhibition;‘Recreating Poussin’
1993: Stockport Art Gallery. Group exhibition
EDUCATION
2012-2020: PHD ART & GEOGRAPHY. ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
2001 - 2003: MA CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD.
1993-1996: BA FINE ART (PAINTING). MANCHESTER METROPITAM UNIVERSITY
1999 - 2001: PGCE Post Graduate Certificate in Education. (Higher & further Education
TEACHING E XP E R I E NC E
LEEDS CITY COLLEGE: 2021 - PRESENT
TEACHER OF ART & DESIGN
BRADFORD SCHOOL OF ART. 2003- 2018
LECTURER: BA FINE ART / VISUAL ARTS. LEVELS 4, 5 AND 6. COURSE LEADER: FOUNDATION DIPLOMA ART & DESIGN. LEVELS 3 /4 LECTURER: BA GRAPHIC DESIGN: LEVEL 4
LECTURER: ACCESS TO ART & DESIGN: LEVELS 2 / 3
COURSE LEADER: N ATIONAL DIPLOMA ART & DESIGN. LEVEL 3
ABBEY COLLEGE, MANCHESTER. 2001 - 2003 HEAD OF AR T. TEACHING GCSE AND A-LEVEL ART AND DESIGN & TECHNOLOG Y.
RIDGE DANYERS COLLEGE. 2001-2002. ART TUTOR.
ADU LT EDUC ATION. LIFE DRAWING
WORKERS EDUC ATIONAL ASSOCI ATION. 1999-2001. ART TUTOR. ADU LT EDUC ATION. DRAWING AND PAINTING.
SKILLS: PAINTING/DRAWING/EXPERIMENTAL FILM / ILLUSTRATION PHOTOSHOP / ILLUSTRATOR / PREMIERE / SKETCHUP MODELLING