Claire Barclay features in Outwith Festival 2024

Claire Barclay and Oana Stanciu feature new works at the historic Pittencrieff House during Outwith Festival 2024.

Claire will present an installation of new and reimagined sculptural works within the unique context of Pittencrieff House. Combining steel and concrete forms with textile, ceramic and ephemeral substances, to create a series of tactile material provocations within the space.

The artist comments: “I’m exploring how self-expression and labour coincide within domestic and workplace settings. The ways in which work affects the body physically when materials penetrate skin, hair, clothing, lungs, and where bones and muscle adapt to stresses are also in mind. Much of my work references the cycles of dirtying and cleaning bodies, (human, animal or machine), and the boundaries that ensure efficiency and order. It is this controlling of materials within our living and working environments that I am always drawn to explore through sculpture. I like to disrupt and question these kinds of equilibriums, and to focus attention on the psychologies and cultural conditions at their core.”