Biography

Claire Zakiewicz is a British multi-media artist working in New York and London. Named in the New York’s top ten artists list in Art511 magazine, her ongoing research examines the physical and metaphorical relationships between sound and drawing. A scientific and philosophical practice-based enquiry - thinking through making.  Her animated films have been shown at Tate Tanks and Tate Modern (London) for the exhibitions Tweet Me Up and Label. Exhibiting regularly throughout the UK, USA, Italy and Norway she has produced and performed in numerous productions and international institutions including Resonance FM (UK), ARTIsm3160 (Venice, Italy), USF (Norway), Bill Young's Dance Studio (NYC), Mothership NYC, Last Frontier NYC and Itinerant Performance Arts Festival (NYC). Zakiewicz studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, London and Cambridge College of Art, before completing a research-based MFA at Sir John Cass School of Art, London. This research examined how the body experiences the world through the study of our perceptions, and how we conceptualize objects, frames, repetition and embodied patterns.