Claire Willberg
Artist Printmaker
Contact details
clairewillberg@btinternet.com
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About
Claire Willberg graduated as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art in 1989. Subsequently she completed an MA in printmaking at Camberwell College of Art. Since 2010 she has been based at the HAUSPRINT Studio in South London.
Her current practice combines traditional intaglio and relief printmaking techniques. She takes inspiration from discarded objects found on the streets of London and gives them a new existence through her work.
Education
1984-87 BA Hons Fine Art Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts & Crafts, London
1987 Commendation in Printmaking, Camberwell College of Arts & Crafts, London
1987-89 MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
1990-92 MA Printmaking, Camberwell College of Art, London
2006 PGCE, University of London, Institute of Education, London
Teaching experience
2014-17 Lecturer, Havering College of Further & Higher Education
2004-2014 Curriculum Manager Art & Design at Havering College of Further & Higher Education
Since 2019 Lecturer, Waltham Forest Adult Learning Service
Exhibitions
1989 London Group Open, Royal College of Art, London
1991 Solo Exhibition at Crypt Gallery, Bloomsbury, London
1991 University of Essex Sculpture Project, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester
1992 The Art of Sculpture, Broxbourne Festival, Broxbourne
1994 The London Group Open, Concourse Gallery, Barbican, London
1994 Reco Verso, London College of Communication, London
2015 Multiplied Art Fair, Christies, London
2016 Art Hub Gallery, London, Cowling and Wilcox Art prize
2016 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
2016 The Original Print Show, Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk
2016 The Masters, Bankside Galley, London, winner of the Fenner Paper Prize
2016 Re-pull, The Stone Space, London
2016 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
2017 To Scale, Printroom Studio, Suffolk
2017 Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival III, London
2018 KEEP, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire
2018 The Bomb Factory Artist Film Festival Series, Exeter
2018 London Arts board, London
2018 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
2018 ELP Festival Of Print, London
2019 Creekside Open 2019, selected by Brian Griffiths, APT Gallery, London
2019 Creekside Open 2019, selected by Sacha Craddock, APT Gallery, London
2019 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
2019 ELP Festival Of Print, London
2019 The Masters: Relief, Bankside Galley, London, winner of The Lawrence Art Supplies prize
2019 International Print Exhibition, Gallery 1, Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Wales
2021 The Flourish Award, WYPW Project space, Huddersfield
2020-21 Flourish, Woodend, Scarborough, North Yorkshire
2021-22 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
2022 Ruin, Poola Gallery, Croatia and in 2023 at Way Out East Gallery, UEL
2022 Printing the Museum, Discover Bucks Museum, Aylesbury
2022 Printing the Museum, Slaughterhaus Print Studio, London
2023 Shelf Life, The Stone Space, London
2023 Colour Balance, Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2023 Odds + Ends, Garage Gallery, London E17
2023 Bainbridge Open 2023
2024, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
Upcoming for 2025
March/ April 2025, Popstraction, Modern and Contemporary British Abstraction, Atelier Gallery, Leiston, Suffolk
Publications
Printmaking Today, Spring issue, March 2019, Extended Practice, Out of the Frame
Pressing Matters, Issue 07, Lost & Found, 2019
Contributor to The Printmaking Ideas Book, Octopus books, published August 2019, Found Objects
Events and residencies
2020 Guest speaker at The Print Symposium: Printmaking in the Expanded Field, Ty Pawb, Wrexham, Wales
2020 Artists Talk Series, Slaughterhaus Print studio, London
2020 Artist Talk, Flourish Award
2022 The Muir Trust Artist in Residence, Discover Bucks Museum, Aylesbury
2023 ‘Shelf Life’, Artist’s talk, Stone Space, London, E11
