Claire Brewster | Personal Territories | Geneva

Each year, to celebrate the publication of Interior Design Review, Interior Designer of the Year 2014 Jorge Canete gives carte blance to an artist to stage a temporary exhibition in his home, a Chateau near Geneva in Switzerland. This year Claire Brewster was invited to take part, and the resulting exhibition 'Personal Territories' is now open.

The exhibition invites you to explore the exquisitely ethereal world of Claire's work, whilst also entering the imagination of an eccentric collector.

Claire's artworks, which have been created using vintage maps and metal, present an expression of childhood dreams and memories brought to reality. The creatures on display take on a life of their own in a metaphor for our attempt to control nature, which in fact remains untameable, in a constant display of power and beauty.

The exhibition is open by appointment until December.

It's All For You...

Claire Brewster has produced a beautiful new hand cut edition for TAG Fine Arts. 'It's all for you' depicts two birds over London, with the Thames curving east on the bottom of the printed map.

Claire Brewster | It's All For You | 2013 | Hand cut printed map | Edition of 20
London Original Print Fair | 25 - 28 April | Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly

The First Cut

Claire Brewster | An Apocalypse of Butterflies (detail) | 2012

'The First Cut' opens tonight at the Manchester City Galleries! Their major group exhibition showcases the work of over 30 contemporary artists working creatively with paper.

Claire Brewster will install 'An Apocalypse of Butterflies' in the Pre-Raphaelite galleries: a lively intervention of contemporary art and natural imagery in a traditional space.

Rob Ryan is producing his largest ever single sheet paper cut as one of seven special commissions for the exhibition.

Susan Stockwell’s period dresses, constructed out of antique maps, are beautifully crafted comments on the history of empire and aspiration.

Justine Smith’s work uses bank notes to create images of guns and grenades in a provocative allusion to the lucrative arms trade and gun culture in modern society.

The First Cut | Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, M2 3JL | Gallery of Costume, Platt Hall, M14 5LL | 5 October 2012 - 27 January 2013

A touch of spring

Spring is in the air, so we thought now was the time to post a selection of artworks that celebrate birds, blossom and seasonal sunshine...

Claire Brewster | We Likey The Sky | 2012 | 81 x 93 cm | Hand cut world vegetation map, pins, foam board | Original artwork signed by the artist, framed

Robin Duttson | The Apple Tree | 2011 | 144 x 150 cm | Lithograph on Somerset paper | Edition of 45, signed and editioned by the artist | Published by TAG Fine Arts | Printed at Curwen Studios | Set of four prints (also sold separately)

Katsutoshi Yuasa | Can you swear it to me? #2 | 2008 | 75 x 105 cm | Lithographic ink wood cut on Japanese fine art paper | Edition of 5, signed, titled, dated and editioned by the artist on the reverse

Enjoy!