Claire Barber has pursued a peripatetic career since her graduation from the Fine Art department of Royal College of Art in 1994 exhibiting widely and completing over twenty artist-in residency and commissioning models in the UK and across Eastern Europe, Australia and Japan. Most recently VIII Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, Museo Del Traje, Madrid, Spain (2019) and an installation presented at Contextile18 Contemporary Textile Art Biennale, Guimarães, Portugal (2018). Barber is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Fashion and Textiles at the University of Huddersfield with an interest in the interconnection between place and the way people are connected to their surrounding environment.
