Claire Kerr's subjects are everyday and often peripheral things: a small bird, smoke from a match, motes of dust in a sunbeam. Her treatment of them however, is extraordinary. The paintings are miniature in scale and deliberately photographic in technique. However, the painted surface is only the beginning of each painting's conceptual investigation of its subject-matter and each work transcends its surface to become something much greater than the sum of its parts.
Claire Kerr (born 1968 Wallsend, UK) lives and works in Dublin. She studied at Wimbledon School of Art and Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology and has exhibited widely, including a solo exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin.
