![Steven Claydon](https://rca-media2.rca.ac.uk/images/Steven_Claydon_RCA_profile_picture.2e16d0ba.fill-456x456.jpg)
Steven is an artist, musician and curator with a multidisciplinary practice focusing on our interface with objects both in the social field and material realm.
Key details
School, Centre or Area
Expertise
Gallery
More information
Research interests
Steven is currently undertaking a DPhil at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University that explores the social and anti-social nature of objects. He utilises interdisciplinary and unorthodox methods to try to apprehend the fugitive nature of our interface with ‘things’ and the mutual means by which artefacts relate.
Practice
Steven’s studio practice is closely linked to his research interests. His research acts as a motor to the speculative and interdisciplinary methods that he employs. The studio practice extends into collaborative work undertaken in various fields, such as particle physics and curatorial practice.
Awards
Leach 100 Award, Leach Pottery, 2021
Paul Hamlyn Awards For Artists, 2017
Finalist, Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, 2016
Finalist, Jarman Award, 2014
Publications, exhibitions and other outcomes
Publications
Anderson, Kitty & Hudson, Elizabeth, (2017), Steven Claydon, The Archipelago Of Contented Peoples. Glasgow: Common Guild & Isle of Bute: Mount Stuart
Bellini, Andrea ed., (2017) Steven Claydon. Milan: Mousse Magazine & Publishing.
Clark, Martin & Claydon, Steven. (2017) I AINT THE NOING UV IT IM JUS ONLE THE SHOWING UV IT. Bergan: Bergan Kunsthall.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
(2022) Lacrimosa. Sadie Coles HQ. London.
(2021) with Aaron Angell, Hornet, hailstone, crab eye, aerodrome... (etc.). The Holburne Museum. Bath, England.
(2019) Crépuscule. Massimo De Carlo. Paris.
(2019) St Just. KIMMERICH. Berlin.
(2018) The Outside In. Museum of English Rural Life. Reading, England.
(2017) Introduced Species of Micronesia. Mount Stuart Castle, Isle of Bute, Scotland.
(2017) The Archipelago of Contented Peoples: Endurance Groups. The Common Guild. Glasgow, Scotland
(2016) Der Uberlebensinstinkt. KIMMERICH, Berlin.
(2016) The Gilded Bough. Sadie Coles HQ. London.
(2015) The Fictional Pixel and The Ancient Set. Bergen Kunsthall, Norway.
(2015) Analogues, Methods, Monsters, Machines. Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva.
Selected Group Exhibitions
(2023) Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary. Nottingham Contemporary, The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland and the RAMM Exeter, England (touring).
(2022) Testing Ground. The Science Gallery, London.
(2021) Infinite Sculpture: From the Antique Cast to the 3D Scan. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon and Beaux-Arts de Paris, (touring).
(2021) A Contemporary Collection, Hepworth Wakefield, England.
(2021) INVISIBLE. Science Gallery, Dublin.
(2021) Delirious. Lustwarande – Platform for Contemporary Sculpture, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
(2021) DARK MATTER. Science Gallery at King’s College London.
External collaborations
(2017) Advisory Board, Contemporary Arts Society
(2007–2012) Advisory Board, Tate St Ives