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Description: About artist and academic Claire Anscomb.
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Claire is an artist and philosopher . She completed her BA in Fine Art at the Winchester School of Art in 2014, following which she undertook both her MA and PhD degrees in History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent. She completed her PhD in 2019 with her doctoral thesis entitled 'On the Significance of Automaticity in Image-Making Practices '. She was the 2021-22 recipient of the British Society of Aesthetics Postdoctoral Award for her project, 'Creating Images with AI', which she worked on in
Through her artistic work, Claire explores themes surrounding visibility and the diverse application of this concept in art and contemporary culture. This is manifested in the construction of meticulous drawings that tackle subjects ranging from "invisible illness" to practices surrounding the visual representation of personal identity, memory, and culture, such as the representation of women in public sculpture, and to the hidden world of artist's studios and the agents who are crucial to their creative ou
ARC – Aesthetics Research Centre