Claire Newman-Williams is a British photographic artist. Whether crafting mixed media collages or photographic prints, Claire creates images that appear to have been pulled from the no-mans land that exists between imagination and reality. These images, often described as “filmic” and “haunting”, leave us wondering which world they inhabit. Are they created in our contemporary world, or are these vintage-looking images visual echoes plucked from another era?
Her artwork has been exhibited at the London Art Fair and Miami Context and she was named one of 4 must-see artists at The Other Art Fair, Bristol by Rebecca Wilson of SaatchiArt. In the UK she is represented by Turner Barnes Gallery and by Artemisia Gallery in the US. Her work is also available from the SaachiArt online gallery and Artfinder.
Although she studied English at University, Claire went on to work in photography, learning her craft in seven years of freelance assisting in America. This was followed by 20 years experience as an editorial and portrait photographer in both the UK and the US where her work has appeared in numerous national and international publications including Time Magazine, The New York Times and The Advocate. She returned to the UK in 2005 and established a reputation as one of the UK's leading headshot photographers with an extensive body of work photographing actors including Tom Hiddleston, Penelope Wilton, Ben Barnes, Stephen Fry and thousands of others.
She is now based in rural Wiltshire, working from her studio in the garden of an old cottage.
Projects
- Hot Codlins & a Quartern of GinThese images are from a series of wet plate collodion portraits entitled "Hot Codlins and a Quartern of Gin". They were created with the same process used by photographers in the mid to late nineteenth century. With the help of Clowns International I spent two days at "Circus, Circus!" at Butlins in Bognor Regis, cornering real, working clowns from around the globe and making them stare for bald stretches of time into a large brass lens that first refracted light in 1860's Paris. The collectio
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Work history
Photographic Artist
Skills
- Photography