Claire Doherty, Director

Claire is Director of Situations and Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at University of the West of England. She initiated Situations in 2003 following a period of 14 years investigating new models of curatorial practice beyond conventional exhibition models at a range of institutions, such as Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Spike Island, Bristol and FACT (Foundation of Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool and has worked with a diversity of artists including Lara Almarcegui, Uta Barth, Brian Catling, Phil Collins, Nathan Coley, Ellen Gallagher, Joseph Grigely, Jeppe Hein, Susan Hiller, Mariele Neudecker, Cornelia Parker, Roman Ondak, Joao Penalva and Ivan and Heather Morison. She initiated Situations in 2003 as a new model of commissioning and research programme within a University context. She has worked as Curatorial Consultant to Tate, Site Gallery Sheffield and is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College.

Claire was also Curatorial Director of the year-long One Day Sculpture series, New Zealand’s first nationwide series of temporary public art commissions 2008-9 and in 2009, Claire was awarded the Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Fund award for outstanding creative entrepreneurs. She is Co-Curatorial Director of the Sea Change programme of public art works in Weston-super-Mare, 2010 and Curatorial Director of the Bjorvika public art programme at Oslo Harbour, Norway.

Doherty lectures and publishes widely on curatorial issues and is editor of Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation, Black Dog Publishing, 2004 and the new edition of the Documents of Contemporary Art series for Whitechapel/MIT Press on 'Situation'. She is also co-editor with David Cross of One Day Sculpture (Kerber Verlag, November 2009) and Heather and Ivan Morison: Falling into Place (Book Works, November 2009).