Roy Claire Potter
Born 1986 in Merseyside (UK) — lives and works in Todmorden (UK)
About
Roy Claire Potter
Born 1986 in Merseyside (UK) — lives and works in Todmorden (UK)

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website of the artist

In The Reading Room of Hell, Claire Potter, Calico, Performance 24.02.2018 A plus A Gallery Venice (exerpt)

1-31 cur. Adam Carr for Collecteurs, New York, February 2020 (online)

Roy Claire Potter has recently presented solo and collaborative work with MOSTYN Gallery, Llandudno (2021); Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2021); Radiophrenia, Glasgow (2020); BBC Radio 3 (2020); Salzburger Kunstverein (2020); Collecteurs, New York (2020); and Tate Britain, London (2019).

Roy makes performance, text, drawing, installation and film, and often collaborates with musicians and sound artists to make audio for music festivals and radio. Across the wide range of their practice, Roy tells stories built from fragmented, intense images that depict moving bodies or domestic scenes and architectural settings. Roy’s interest in subtext and narrative sequencing is felt in the way they use fast-paced talking or reading speed, and restricted or partial views of space. Complicated social and group dynamics and aftermath of violent events are common themes in Roy’s work and are usually treated with a dark, sometimes wilful humour.

Roy Claire Potter has published two books of experimental art writing, Round That Way (Ma Bibliotheque, 2017) and Mental Furniture (VerySmallKitchen 2014) and shorter works are published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Hotel Partisan, Tate Publishing, and Centre For Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry. They have released audio with Cafe OTO, London; Sub Rosa, Belgium; Chocolate Monk; Brighton; and Fort Evil Fruit, Dublin.

In 2022 they will present new works with Primary arts centre in Nottingham, Counterflows music festival in Glasgow, and with Cafe OTO’s Otoroku record label, London.