Claire Barrow
{{Short description|English artist and fashion designer}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Claire Barrow
| nationality = British
| field = Art, fashion
| training = University of Westminster
}}
Claire Barrow is an English artist. Known for her unique hand-painted leather jackets and caricature illustrations, Barrow does not view being an artist and a designer as mutually exclusive, but rather integrates both aspects into her work. Barrow is currently based in London, using British culture as an inspiration in her art. Barrow is, also, inspired by the idea of consumerism and its effect on art. She, like Burberry, has rejected traditional ideas of the fashion system and announced in 2021 that she would no longer show her designs in accordance with the traditional seasonal model,{{Cite news|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/31221/1/claire-barrow-announces-plan-to-reject-fashion-week-schedule|title=Claire Barrow announces plan to reject fashion week schedule|last=Dazed|date=23 May 2016|work=Dazed|access-date=26 March 2017}} preferring to focus on creating fashion and art without the motivation of consumerism.
Life
Barrow grew up in Stockton-on-Tees, in northeast England. She studied at Conyers School in Middlesbrough and did a BTEC National Diploma in Fashion Design at Cleveland College of Art and Design (now the Northern School of Art),{{Cite web|url=https://northernart.ac.uk/fashion-designer-inspires-young-creative-visit-home/|title=Fashion Designer Inspires Young Creative on Visit Home|date=19 May 2016}} before she moved to London in 2008 to study Fashion at the University of Westminster.{{Cite web|url=https://www.clairebarrow.com/pages/about|title=About|website=Claire Barrow|access-date=26 March 2017}} In 2012, she graduated from the University of Westminster with a degree in Fashion Design. Before graduating, she received her first big break from the fashion editor at British Vogue, Fransesca Burns. One of her hand-painted leather jackets was featured in Vogue, another in i-D and another on Rihanna. Despite the break in her career, Barrow still finished her degree. After her graduate collection was featured on the catwalk, Fashion East founder Lulu Kennedy quickly picked her up.{{Cite news|url=http://www.matchesfashion.com/intl/womens/the-style-report/archive/new-york-fashion-week/claire-barrow/|title=Spotlight On... Designer Claire Barrow {{!}} MATCHESFASHION.COM|work=MATCHESFASHION.COM|access-date=26 March 2017}} Just one year after her graduate collection she made her London Fashion Week debut with Fashion East and then began exhibiting with NEWGEN.
Style
Barrow has defined her own style as "car boot sale".{{Cite news|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/projects/article/29319/1/claire-barrow|title=Claire Barrow|last=Dazed|date=8 February 2016|work=Dazed|access-date=26 March 2017}} Others have described her style as neo-primitivism.{{Cite news|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/30744/1/claire-barrow-confronts-superficiality-in-her-new-london-show|title=Claire Barrow confronts superficiality in her new show|last=Dazed|date=14 April 2016|work=Dazed|access-date=26 March 2017}} Barrow has grown tired of people inquiring whether she is a fashion designer or artist. She explained in an interview, "The question is always, 'Is it fashion or art?{{'"}} This prompted "the Retro-Spective" her own fake retrospective, which combined the two demonstrating that she's both an artist and a fashion designer.{{Cite news|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/30032/1/why-claire-barrow-held-a-fake-art-exhibition-at-lfw|title=Why Claire Barrow held a fake art exhibition at LFW|last=Dazed|date=25 February 2016|work=Dazed|access-date=26 March 2017}}
Selected works
- 2015: Same Shoes, M Goldstein Gallery, London.{{Cite news|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/26064/1/claire-barrow-turns-her-talent-from-clothes-to-canvas|title=Claire Barrow turns her talent from clothes to canvas|first=Ashleigh |last=Kane|date=25 August 2015|work=Dazed|access-date=26 March 2017}}
- 2017: Dancing with Dreams, Galeria Melissa, London.{{Cite web|url=http://becauselondon.com/fashion/2017/02/dancing-with-dreams/|title=Dancing with Dreams|website=becauselondon.com|access-date=26 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327081130/http://becauselondon.com/fashion/2017/02/dancing-with-dreams/|archive-date=27 March 2017|url-status=dead}}
Selected exhibitions
- 2016: Fish Wifes, (with Reba Maybury) Paramount Ranch, Agoura Hills, California.{{Cite web|url=https://www.shootthelobster.com/fish-wifes-paramount-ranch-iii |title=Fish Wifes — Paramount Ranch III |work=Shoot The Lobster |access-date=25 February 2021}}
- 2016: Retro-Spective, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.{{Cite news|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/32676/1/claire-barrow-and-eloise-parry-team-up-on-subversive-film|title=Claire Barrow's cast of outsiders unite in new fashion film|last=Dazed|date=5 September 2016|work=Dazed|access-date=26 March 2017}}
- 2016: The Bed, the Bath and The Beyond, M Goldstein Gallery, London.{{Cite news|url=https://i-d.co/article/coming-clean-in-claire-barrows-first-solo-art-exhibition/|title=coming clean in claire barrow's first solo art exhibition {{!}} read|work=i-D|access-date=26 March 2017}}
List of Barrow's collections
- Spring/Summer 2013 – Untitled
- Autumn/Winter 2013 – Untitled{{Cite web|url=http://www.fashionising.com/runway/b--claire-barrow-aw-13-46578.html|title=Claire Barrow Autumn (Fall)/ Winter 2013|website=Fashion Sing}}
- Spring/Summer 2014 – Untitled
- Autumn/Winter 2014 – Untitled
- Spring/Summer 2015 – Untitled{{Cite web|url=https://www.clairebarrow.com/pages/lookbook|title=Lookbook|website=Claire Barrow|access-date=26 March 2017}}
- Autumn/Winter 2015 – High Flyers
- Spring/Summer 2016 – Broken Machines
- Autumn/Winter 2016 – Untitled
References
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External links
- [https://www.clairebarrow.com Official website]
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Category:20th-century English painters
Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:21st-century English painters
Category:21st-century English women artists
Category:Alumni of the University of Westminster
Category:Artists from County Durham
Category:English women illustrators