Claire A Baker
Textiles
Claire A Baker is a designer and maker working from her studio in Stockton on Tees. Primarily a surface designer she also has her own company producing textile home and fashion accessories: 'Line Dry' is a luxury lifestyle label evoking thoughts of the good old days...visions of washing hung out to dry, clean white sheets flapping in the wind, the scent of grass and fresh air...when life seemed simple…
Claire’s work is a combination of techniques, particularly hand embroidery and print. Paper based illustration and collage both play a huge part in her design process and she often works to commission producing one off pieces that are more art based than commercial.
Exhibitions Claire has taken part in include: WCC, Eunique 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany, The European Prize for Applied Arts, Mons, Belgium. 50/50 at The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle. Book Exhibition at Gracefield arts centre, Dumfries. ‘Reworked, Recycled, Revealed' (in collaboration with ‘Vervey’), and the Indigo Trade Fair, Paris.
Claire is also a lecturer at Cleveland College of Art & Design, teaching on the Textiles and Surface Design degree course.
Q&A's
Describe your creative practice in 20 single words.
Textiles
Print
Embroidery
Design
Collage
Mixed-media
Contemporary
Tactile
Innovative
Precious
In-depth
Expressive
Handworked
Creative
Original
Bespoke
Inspired
Tasteful
Exclusive
Professional
Describe your influences using 30 single words or short phrases.
People
Places
Past era’s
Modern culture
Old text
Paper
Ephemera
Richard Hamilton
Traditional textile techniques
Muted tones
Sophisticated Colour
Collage
Robert Rauschenberg
Expressive Stitch
Antique markets
French stuff
Ancient quilts
Junk
Café espresso cups
Monogrammed ribbon
Old photographs
Spanish architecture
Slickness
Iconolatry
Raoul Hausmann
Foreign graffiti
Melitta ceramics
Mark making
Contradiction
Eclecticism