Claudia Clare is a British ceramicist and writer known for her large painted earthenware jars depicting the impact of big events in the lives of ordinary women.
Clare trained as a painter at Camberwell School of Art, apprenticed with Winchcombe pottery and gained a Phd at University of Westminster in 2007. [1] [2]
She has written for Ceramic Review [3] exhibited in galleries and museums [4] [5] including alongside Grayson Perry at the Zuleika Gallery. [6]
She has been described as a subversive ceramicist [7] and is the author of ‘Subversive Ceramics,’ (Bloomsbury 2016). [8] Clare co-wrote ‘The Pot Book’ (Phaidon, 2011) [9] with artist Edmund de Waal.
In 2023 she was involved in a controversy around an invitation to talk at University of The Arts London, [10] The university later apologised [11]