Clare Pentlow
CV
Paper continues to be a fascination for Clare hand cutting and folding creating ever more intricate and textured artworks. She enjoys challenging the perception of paper as an ordinary material transforming it to be extraordinary constantly refining and looking for perfection whilst embracing the versatile qualities of strength and fragility. Through precision hand cutting and folding, her pieces evolve over time through methodical repetitive motions building layer upon layer resulting in highly textured mesmerising pieces of art which draw the viewer in. The methodical approach Clare takes is rooted in her love of maths and science continually being inspired by patterns and colours in nature.
Selected Exhibitions
Rugby Artists and Makers Exhibition, Floor 1, Rugby Art Gallery, June/July 2021
ING Discerning Eye Online, London, December 2020
RBSA Solo Exhibition, Birmingham, December 2020
Online Open, Old Lock Up Gallery, Cromford, May/June 2020
Top Drawer, London Olympia, January 2020
Positive Emotions, Kunsthuis Gallery, Yorkshire, April - February 2020
Precious Collective Group Show, Plymouth, April 2019
Cluster Crafts, Truman Brewery, London, October 2018
250th Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, June - August 2018
MADE, The Qube, Oswestry, July - August 2018
Including a series of workshops set over 6 weeks, working with teachers and carers
Warwickshire Open Studios, Dunchurch, Rugby, June 2021
Dunchurch, Rugby, June 2019
University Hospital Cov & Warwick, June 2018
Fosse House Gallery, June 2017
Garden Gate, June 2015
Weave, Jewellery Residency, June 2013
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Open Exhibition, March 2019
Next Wave Artist Exhibition, Sep 2018 - Winner Awarded Associate Membership
Second Floor Studios, No Format Gallery, London, April 2017
Made London, Canary Wharf, March 2017
Made in the Middle, Touring Exhibition Dec 2016 - 2018, Best Exhibitor Prize Artists and Academics,
Collaboration with Warwick University, Nov 2016
Paper from the ordinary to the extraordinary, Rugby Art Gallery, June/July 2015
Solo Exhibition including Workshops with both children and adults.
Carte Blanche, Hermes, Paris, 2014
Rugby Open, Rugby Art Gallery, 2013 - Overall Prize Winner
Islington Art and Design Fair, London 2010
New Designers, London 2010
Other
Otter Sculpture Trail, Dartmoor, 2017
Herd Of Sheffield, Sculpture Trail, Summer 2016
Chinese New Year, Paper Monkeys, Black Polar Events, Feb 2016
Liverpool Snowflake Trail, Christmas 2015
WEAVE Jewellery Residency, Warwickshire Open Studios, 2013
Jewellery Showcase, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2011
Poppy’s Papercuts, Freelance Designer, Cards to Window Displays, also helping at wide variety of workshops for all ages and abilities.
Publications/Features
Victoria and Albert Papercraft Book 2018
Kirstie Alsopps Christmas Crafts Book 2013