Claire Weetman is a visual artist based in North West England, producing works that investigate and exploit movement. She graduated from Liverpool with a BA (hons) Fine Art in 2003 and continues to practice whilst working creatively with communities throughout the area.

An investigation into movement reveals itself in most of Claire’s works. The Sit and Draw series used an office chair, adapted to take felt tipped pens, which trace the movement of the sitter onto the floor surface. Some images in this series are wild and frenetic, whilst others become more geometric as a result of repetitive movements.

Claire continues to investigate movement, her lack of a studio to work in forces her out into public spaces, where she responds and records the movement that is present in the environment. Investigations was a series of paper windbreaks placed around the City of Liverpool upon which the movement of sound was recorded in a visual manner and All in a day’s work was a series of drawings resulting from the movement of bamboo branches in the wind at Norton Priory. The ink on paper and graphite on paper drawings were formed organically over several hours where the only intervention by the artist was the application of the ink and the documentation of the process.

Documentation is key to Claire’s work, as the process of producing the pieces is often temporary and reliant on the circumstances at the time. Documentation normally takes place in the form of photographs and drawings and are often exhibited alongside each other.