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Claire A. Baker
Claire A. Baker is a textile artist and embroiderer whose contemporary practice focuses on the traditional and historical influences of textile craft. Her research-responsive artworks explore texture, scale and negative space, with her methodology being definitively informed by her concepts. One of her intentions is to ensure that some of the historical embroidery motifs peculiar to the area are not forever lost due to the lack of future generations and the destruction of a community and its culture. Concerned with the phenomenology of displacement, abandonment, memory, place and the lost, she has based her research work within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for the last five years. She set up the 26:86 Collective in 2015, is a lecturer at the Northern School of Art and works internationally as arts director of a festival held in Ukraine supporting the people still living in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Claire has been awarded major grants by British Council UK and Crafts Council (Crafting Futures) as well as British Council Ukraine and her current doctoral research is supported by an AHRC Studentship award.