Claire Brewster grew up in Lincolnshire and has been living and working in London for over 20 years. Her work is held in public and private collections all over the world.
The artist – as an outsider – is ideally placed for picking up that which has been chucked away. Claire Brewster’s practice is about retrieving the discarded, celebrating the unwanted and giving new life to the obsolete. Old maps and atlases are painstakingly manipulated with a scalpel to create intricate and delicate cut-outs. Placed in box frames, the striking shadows lend a 3-D quality and create an illusion of movement.
‘We Are Feeling a Little Blue’
Cut page from The Oxford Advanced Atlas, pins, foam board, box frame
44cm x 34cm
Contact gallery for availability and price
‘Way down South’
Cut page from The Oxford Advanced Atlas, pins, foam board, box frame
44cm x 34cm
Contact gallery for availability and price
‘My heart is not for you’
Cut page from Oxford Advanced Atlas, pins, foam board, box frame
Contact gallery for availability and price
‘Heading out’
Cut page from Oxford Advanced Atlas, pins, foam board, box frame
34cm x 44cm
Contact gallery for availability and price
‘Hummingbird Geological’
Cut geological map, pins, foam board, box frame
44cm x 34cm
Contact gallery for availability and price
‘Getting ready for the trip’
Cut Aviation map of Great Britain, Irish Sea; pins, foam board, box frame
93cm x 81cm
Contact gallery for availability and price
‘From a dark heart’
Cut page from Bartholomew’s Comparative Atlas; pins foam board, box frame
34cm x 44cm
Contact gallery for availability and price
‘Its something like the sun’
Cut page from Oxford Advanced Atlas; pins, foam board, box frame
34cm x 44cm
Contact gallery for availability and price
