Claire Baily (b. 1986)lives and works in London. Baily earned her BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College (2010), as well as her Postgraduate certificate in Learning and Teaching from Goldsmiths College (2022).

For Baily, the act of making is a form of cathartic cartography. Embracing both historical and contemporary casting processes, Baily’s meticulous interment and patient excavation of biological forms produce works which hold entropy still, through which we might discover something new of time’s undulations. Made whilst navigating heartbreak, the metaphorical dissection in ‘Rest Now My Melancholic Heart’ became a means for the artist to meet herself. The personal imbues the material in this work, exploring the echoes between the underworld and the human heart. What surfaces invites contemplation on both a human and anthropocentric scale; a ‘terra incognita’ with an elusive familiarity.

Selected exhibitions include: ‘Terra Incognita’, Castor Gallery, London (2022), ‘Doubling Down’ Castor Gallery at Leicester Contemporary, Co-curated with Georgia Lauren Stephenson, London (2021), ‘The Stable Object in Precarious Times’, Castor Gallery, London (2021), ‘Habitual’, Castor Gallery (2020), ‘Habitat’, JGM Gallery, London (2019), ‘Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer’, William Bennington Gallery, Buckinghamshire (2019), ‘Reconsider Walls’, High Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2019), ‘Ocular Inc’, Thames-side Studios, London (2019), ‘Skeleton Key’, Castor Projects, London (2018).

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