Talking Points: Claire Willberg
How can everyday objects inspire shapes and patterns?
Claire Willberg finds inspiration in objects that other people might throw away. Through printmaking and animation, she looks closely at their shapes and forms using them as a starting point for her artwork. By drawing and cutting out shapes based on the objects she finds, she arranges, overlaps and layers them to create new patterns and compositions, encouraging us to look at everyday things differently.
Watch the videos below and use the following questions to explore the work of Claire Willberg.
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Claire Willberg
Claire Willberg graduated as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art in 1989. Subsequently she completed an MA in Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art. Since 2010 she has been based at the Slaughterhaus Print Studio in South London.
Her current practice combines traditional intaglio and relief printmaking techniques. She takes inspiration from discarded objects found on the streets of London and gives them a new existence through her work.
In the videos above Claire uses the shapes inspired by the objects she finds to make animations.
www.instagram.com/clairewillbergartist/
Questions to Ask Children
When you watch Claire’s animations, what do you think?
What kind of a world is Claire creating for us?
Look around you and find items which have been discarded. Look at packaging too – open out cartons and boxes and look at the shapes. What kind of shapes would they inspire you to make out of paper, and what could they become in an animation?
Do you have particular colours you are drawn to using?
Do you think you have to know “what you are doing” or can you “play” with shapes and see what happens? Do the shapes give you ideas for stories?
This Talking Points Is Used In...
Pathway: working with shape and colour
using sketchbooks to make visual notes
Show me what you see
