Clare Burnett studied Architecture and Social and Political Studies at Cambridge University and Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art. Solo and group shows include Leighton House Museum; William Benington Gallery; the University of Leeds; Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer; the Royal Academy; the National Gallery; the Jerwood Space; the RIBA; and the Royal Society of Sculptors; Sanyi Wood Sculpture Museum in Taiwan, Brooke Benington and Studio Block M74 in Mexico and most recently Unit One Gallery and Workshop in London. She has completed site-specific installations in spaces such as Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation, France; Brompton and Norwood Cemeteries and Bishopsgate Square. London. She is currently on a residency in Cyprus, preparing work for an exhibition with Art Seen Contemporary, Nicosia.

Improvisation and chance play a key role and imbue the work with a feeling of freedom and lightheartedness,  underpinned with formal rigour.  Paint is cut in with concrete or metal, space with line, geometry with found objects as the visual and physical qualities of the work are manipulated and refined.   Colour and space are key considerations and she has a long-held interest in how different tones, hues and surfaces read within different environments. 

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Burnett makes coloured, abstract sculptures using a wide range of materials and processes. They are often arranged in groups to create interactions within the space and beyond. 

The artist’s starting points are drawn from what she notices around her -  discarded boxes, plumbing accessories, scraps of coloured metal. Questions about surveillance, consumerism and globalism are all scavenged and brought back to her studio as seeds of future work.  Using an ever-expanding palette of processes she plays with objects and materials, ignoring their stories or perceived value and concentrating on their physical and visual properties and relationships.