Claire Luxton
United Kingdom
Presentation
Claire Luxton is a British painter.
She practices different mediums such as painting, photography, sculpture or installations on a large scale, it is mostly by the choice of colors that the works of Claire Luxton stand out. Using a palette of colors mostly pop and acidulated, tending mostly to mauves and roses, her work emanates a great dynamic energy.
Fascinated by the qualities and properties of the materials she uses, she is interested in the way they physically occupy space. The paintings and sculptures she creates have a very direct symbiotic relationship with photography, usually focused on transition and transformation.
Woman remains one of her favorite subjects and she uses the female body for her photographs, their bodies as well as their faces, the mouth, which she depicts in a sensual or provocative way.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2015, and she won the Xerxes Award for sculpture the same year.
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Claire Luxton is a British painter.
She practices different mediums such as painting, photography, sculpture or installations on a large scale, it is mostly by the choice of colors that the works of Claire Luxton stand out. Using a palette of colors mostly pop and acidulated, tending mostly to mauves and roses, her work emanates a great dynamic energy.
Fascinated by the qualities and properties of the materials she uses, she is interested in the way they physically occupy space. The paintings and sculptures she creates have a very direct symbiotic relationship with photography, usually focused on transition and transformation.
Woman remains one of her favorite subjects and she uses the female body for her photographs, their bodies as well as their faces, the mouth, which she depicts in a sensual or provocative way.
Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions including at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2015, and she won the Xerxes Award for sculpture the same year.