About Me

Photo by Luca Tarantini

Hi! I'm Claire...

And connection is at the heart of everything I care about - connections of the mind and to other people!

I love being in the world, and learning through experience.

For the past 10 years I've worked as a set designer for the film and television industry, creating all sorts of wild worlds and learning about different materials.

Discovering Fabricademy felt like finding a school for polymaths! It turns out, being a polymath is exactly what I’ve always wanted to be when I 'grow up'.

Of course it's much more fun to create and solve problems when other people are a long for the ride.

I'm a big believer that the best ideas often come from totally disparate places. So I'm thrilled to start this Fabricademy journey with such an amazing network of people from all over the world, with different backgrounds and different ways of seeing. I'm sure we're going to make some incredible connections.

Previous Work

Photography Documentation

One of the habits I've picked up from being a set designer is to document everything. I'm compulsively taking photos of things I find weird or interesting or beautiful.

I saw the work of Bern and Hilla Becher in university and it always stayed with me. I love how direct and simple it is - how it invites the viewer to contrast and compare. It made me consider the built world and processes a lot more than I had previously.

They've definitely influenced the top down, direct way I something shoot nature. I also just generally love documenting variation in nature and organic patterns.

Ebru/ Marbling

I also recently got into the art of marbling, otherwise known as ebru. It's originally a Turkish technique that involves the floating of paint on water to create beautiful prints. I love how organic the process is. It's different every time!

That's one of my monchrome marbling experiments above.