Claire graduated with a BA Honours in Fine Art from Belfast School of Art in 2024. Her practice is rooted in the expanded field of painting, where she explores the physicality of the medium and challenges traditional notions of how a painting can exist. By incorporating reclaimed wood and found materials, each bearing the layered histories of their previous lives, she creates structures and wall-mounted assemblages that can push beyond the boundaries of two-dimensionality. Through this process, the conventional materials of painting are unravelled, allowing the components to find a new existence.
By disrupting the traditional methodical approach to painting, she shifts the focus from the pictorial to the material essence of the work. Her paintings are pared down to minimalist compositions where irregular shapes, textures, materials, and colour become the central elements, and the pictorial function of painting is abandoned in favour of an exploration of its "objectness."
Image: Claire Ritchie, The Mutterer, Image courtesy of the artist.
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