Claire Barrow
Claire Barrow | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Education | University of Westminster |
| Known for | Art, fashion |
Claire Barrow is an English artist, renowned 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 last year that she would no longer show her designs in accordance with the traditional seasonal model,[1] preferring to focus on creating fashion and art without the motivation of consumerism.
Life
Barrow grew up in Stockton-on-Tees in northeast England. Barrow 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)[2] before she moved to London in 2008 to study Fashion at the University of Westminster.[3] In 2012 she graduated from the University of Westminster with a degree in Fashion Design. Before graduating she got 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.[4] Just one year after her graduate collection she made her London Fashion Week debut with Fashion East and then began exhibiting with NEWGEN.[5]
Style
Barrow has defined her own style as "car boot sale".[6] Others have described her style as neo-primitivism.[7] Barrow has grown tired of people inquiring whether she's 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.[8]
Selected works
- 2015: Same Shoes, M Goldstein Gallery, London.[9]
- 2017: Dancing with Dreams, Galeria Melissa, London.[10]
Selected exhibitions
- 2016: Retro-Spective, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.[11]
- 2016: The Bed, the Bath and The Beyond, M Goldstein Gallery, London.[12]
List of Barrow's collections
- Spring/Summer 2013 – Untitled
- Autumn/Winter 2013 – Untitled[13]
- Spring/Summer 2014 – Untitled
- Autumn/Winter 2014 – Untitled
- Spring/Summer 2015 – Untitled[14]
- Autumn/Winter 2015 – High Flyers[15]
- Spring/Summer 2016 – Broken Machines
- Autumn/Winter 2016 – Untitled[16]
References
- ^ Dazed (23 May 2016). "Claire Barrow announces plan to reject fashion week schedule". Dazed. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ https://northernart.ac.uk/fashion-designer-inspires-young-creative-visit-home/
- ^ "About". Claire Barrow. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ "Spotlight On... Designer Claire Barrow | MATCHESFASHION.COM". MATCHESFASHION.COM. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ "About". Claire Barrow. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ Dazed (8 February 2016). "Claire Barrow". Dazed. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ Dazed (14 April 2016). "Claire Barrow confronts superficiality in her new show". Dazed. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ Dazed (25 February 2016). "Why Claire Barrow held a fake art exhibition at LFW". Dazed. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ Dazed (25 August 2015). "Claire Barrow turns her talent from clothes to canvas". Dazed. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ "Dancing with Dreams". becauselondon.com. Archived from the original on 27 March 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ Dazed (5 September 2016). "Claire Barrow's cast of outsiders unite in new fashion film". Dazed. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ "coming clean in claire barrow's first solo art exhibition | read | i-D". i-D. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ "Claire Barrow Autumn (Fall)/ Winter 2013". Fashion Sing.
- ^ "Lookbook". Claire Barrow. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ Dazed (25 August 2015). "Claire Barrow turns her talent from clothes to canvas". Dazed. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
- ^ "Lookbook". Claire Barrow. Retrieved 26 March 2017.