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Inspirations of Visual Art

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Claire Barclay, creator of complex art installations, on the inspirations behind her art.

Claire Barclay, creator of complex art installations, discusses the inspirations behind her art.

A series in which five artists talk about the influences on their work. In this essay, Claire Barclay, creator of complex art installations, discusses the inspirations behind her art in a talk delivered to an audience at the Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh. 

Claire Barclay is a Scottish artist known for large-scale installations consisting of collections of sculptural objects brought together into precisely plotted relationships. Combining a wide range of hand-made and machine-finished processes, and using commonplace materials in unconventional ways.

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Talks about artistic insprations delivered by artists based in Scotland

Series of talks about artistic insprations delivered by artists based in Scotland working in a variety of media. All were recorded in front of an audience at the Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh

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