Claire Blundell Jones

Claire Blundell Jones slips across drawing, performance, video and installations using dark humour to tickle at subjects most would avoid discussing, such as wasting time, alienation, intimacy, death, shame and doubt. Her wobbly-lined drawings or performance props try to lighten these heavy themes such as education sponsorship or death. There is also an endeavour to interact with and critique public spaces and galleries. It is all about trying to make the invisible visible. Examples include spending an exhibition drifting on a coracle just outside the gallery (2012), spooning strangers (2010) or illustrating gallery visitors doubts for five weeks in a drawing installation (Crow Didn’t Know…, 2011).

The most recent work explores different funeral rituals to play with the way we collectively deal with death. Claire Blundell Jones' interests lie in anthropology, drawing on herself as a subject and investigating how objects can hold dramas. She enjoys creating stories which glide between her own experiences and others, awkwardly plunging between the emotive and slapstick. These stories are translated into performance lectures, book-works or videos. Predominantly she works in performance or video to be able to explore and capture relationships between the individual and groups.