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Steven Claydon

Steven Claydon

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.

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  • Installation view, Lacrimosa (solo exhibition). Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street, London. 2022.

    Installation view, Lacrimosa (solo exhibition). Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street, London. 2022.

    Steven Claydon

  • Detail of Mines, Bombs and Spirits (laser cut aluminium, turned Ukrainian ash, wood fired ceramic, gunpowder tea), Lacrimosa, Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street, London. 2022.

    Detail of Mines, Bombs and Spirits (laser cut aluminium, turned Ukrainian ash, wood fired ceramic, gunpowder tea), Lacrimosa, Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street, London. 2022.

    Steven Claydon

  • Installation view of Re De Extinction Table Transmission Assembly. The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. 2016.

    Installation view of Re De Extinction Table Transmission Assembly. The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. 2016.

    Steven Claydon

  • Detail of Re De Extinction Table Transmission Assembly. Chemically chromed resin foam, iron-coated resin foam, shredded money and resin, microphone, steel. Dimensions variable. 2016.

    Detail of Re De Extinction Table Transmission Assembly. Chemically chromed resin foam, iron-coated resin foam, shredded money and resin, microphone, steel. Dimensions variable. 2016.

    Steven Claydon

  • Installation view of Stochastic Conveyor Transference. The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. 2016.

    Installation view of Stochastic Conveyor Transference. The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. 2016.

    Steven Claydon

  • Detail of Parthian Batteries (Sight, Health, Harm, Stealth) and La Natura Morta, Crépuscle, Piéce Unique, Paris. 2021

    Detail of Parthian Batteries (Sight, Health, Harm, Stealth) and La Natura Morta, Crépuscle, Piéce Unique, Paris. 2021

    Steven Claydon

More information

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.

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.

Leach 100 Award, Leach Pottery, 2021

Paul Hamlyn Awards For Artists, 2017

Finalist, Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, 2016

Finalist, Jarman Award, 2014

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.

(2017) Advisory Board, Contemporary Arts Society

(2007–2012) Advisory Board, Tate St Ives