Claire Undy

Claire Undy is an artist, curator and lecturer, whose research incorporates performance, collaboration and the dismantling and dissemination of the moving image.

Absurdity, futility and the suspension of disbelief are regular themes. Claire’s work has been exhibited at Five Years Gallery, Brighton Photo Fringe, One Minute Moving Image Festival and the ICA. Since 2016, Claire has been curating and programming Skelf, an online platform that works with artists to reimagine art practice in a non-physical space at skelf.org.uk. Skelf has worked with more than 200 artists and writers to present 50 exhibitions and has been supported by public funding by Arts Council England.

Undy studied at Wimbledon College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools.

Instagram: @claire.undy

Website: www.claireundy.com

object | multiple editions:

Unfold, 2024

To Unfold, 2024

Double-Sided Digital Print

150mm x 150 mm when folded, 450mm x 450mm approx when open

Edition of 40

£21. Price rises when half the edition is sold.

Claire Undy's To Unfold is a performative portrayal of the artist and worker as a compressed and expanded being:

Like a map that won’t fold back into place - this is a flat-packed self that distorts as it expands and contracts to fit in different spaces. Stretching out and attempting to span a space at one moment, at another the very same body is tightly hemmed in, attempting to take up as little space as possible. Reflecting on the economics and daily politics of teaching, motherhood and artistic exploration, Undy utilises a comic toolkit to draw attention to the all-too-human endeavour to take on superhuman quantities of work, and to open up critical spaces through tools found within studies of humour.

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