About
Claye Bowler is an artist based in Yorkshire. His practice centres on collection and documentation of experience, memory and the remnants of humanity. 

Bowler uses sculptural practices to highlight stories that are not historically collected through institutional means, often working with narratives of queerness and disability. ​

Whilst also working in museum registration, Bowler often incorporates, yet questions, the ethics, administration and aesthetics of museum collecting in his work. 

Bowler has a strong connection to sound and music, increasingly integrating these elements into his work, using field recordings and traditional British folk song.

Contact
clayebowler@gmail.com
@clayebowler

  • Top ‍ ‍Queer Britain, London    ‍ ‍   2025

    Dig Me a Grave ‍ ‍Yorkshire Sculpture Park  ‍ ‍     2025

    Dig Me a Grave Auction House, Redruth, Cornwall       2025 

    Dig Me a Grave Steam Works Gallery, WIP Space London   2025

    Top‍ ‍ Henry Moore Institute, Leeds     2022

  • Ruin Gazer Alma Artspace, Newquay, Cornwall 2025

    the body is a space in time Fringe! Queer Film Festival & LADA, London 2025

    Talisman Cardion Arts, London 2025

    Necrology Haarlem Artspace, Derbyshire 2025

    Collective Archive Ugly Duck, London 2025

    Trancestry Lethaby Gallery & Museum of Transology, London 2025

    Winter Sculpture Park 2025 Winter Sculpture Park, London 2025

    The Cloak of St Brigid serf, Leeds 2024

    Body Architect Norman Rea Gallery, York 2023

    Transmasculine Desires Otherness Archive, Ugly Duck, London 2022

    On Queer Ground Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2022

    UK New Artists City Takeover Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester 2022

    Cold Black Rain Shall be your Coat Yonder Gallery for hcmf//, Huddersfield 2021

    First Outing Queerly Made, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool 2021

    Queer Constellations Museum of English Rural Life, Reading 2021

    Sick! - with Roma Loudun Yonder Gallery, Huddersfield 2021

    Queer Contemporaries AIR Gallery, Manchester 2020

    Restricted Access KiN, Huddersfield 2019

    Save Ryebank Fields Link Gallery, Manchester 2019

    Archival Interventions Heritage Quay Archive, Huddersfield 2016

  • Live Archive Transcend Festival, Bristol 2023

    Live Archive Tate Britain, Queer & Now Festival, London 2023

    Secured CLAY - Centre for Live Art Yorkshire, Leeds 2022

    Measured Transition 2016-2021 Yorkshire Sculpture International, Leeds 2021

    Live Archive Before you go home, Reading 2019

    Measured Transition Durational Performance 2016-2021

  • Cross Flats Park Commission Yorkshire Contemporary, Leeds 2026

    Sensory Interpretation Objects Arts Council Collection & Heron Academy, London 2024

    Drawing as Stimming York Art Gallery, Sam Metz, York 2022

    Trans Postcard Project Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester 2022

    Stimming as making East Bristol Contemporary, Bristol 2021

  • Group Residency Scottish Sculpture Workshop 2026

    Two Together Residency Freelands Foundation & Porthmeor Studios, St Ives 2026

    Self directed Residency Back Lane West, Redruth, Cornwall       2025

    Art Rights Truth University of York, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2024

    Dig me a Grave Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall 2024

    Dig me a Grave‍ ‍ Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2024

    Jerwood Newlyn Residency Jerwood, Newlyn Art Gallery & Exchange, Cornwall 2023

    First Outing Queerly Made, Abingdon Studios, & Blackpool 2021

    Same Arboretum Park, Derby 2017

  • Artist Award Henry Moore Foundation 2025

    Exhibition Grant Funding Henry Moore Foundation 2025

    National Lottery Project Grant Arts Council England 2024-2026

    New Work Fund Jerwood Foundation, London 2023-2026

    Developing Your Creative Practice Arts Council England 2023-2024

    Mark Tanner Sculpture Award Standpoint Gallery, London 2023 (Shortlist)

  • Top (Part 7 of 7) Wellcome Collection, London 2024

    Top (Part 1 of 7) Arts Council Collection, London 2024

    Not Much Further (prints) Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds 2024

    Fine, I’ll do it Myself i Otherness Archive 2022

    Not Much Further (film) Otherness Archive 2022

    Measured Transition 2016-2021 Otherness Archive 2022

  • Last Breath Society Future Ritual, Queen Mary University, London 2023-2024

    PG Cert Art Gallery & Museum Studies University of Leeds, Leeds 2021-2022

    YSI Sculpture Network Yorkshire Sculpture International, Yorkshire 2020-2021

    BA(Hons) Textile Practice University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield 2015-2019

  • Acquisition Committee Arts Council Collection 2025 - 2027

    Registrar & Collection Manager Museum of Transology 2023 - 2026

    Tutor Starving Artists Opportunities, Online 2023 - 2025

    Trustee Vagina Museum, London 2023 - 2025

    Assistant Collection Registrar Tate, National Galleries Scotland, London/Edinburgh 2022 - 2023

    Trainee Registrar Leeds Museums & Galleries, Royal Armouries, Leeds 2021 - 2022

    Director Yonder Gallery, Huddersfield 2019 - 2022

    Musical Director Yorkshire Trans Choir, Leeds 2018 - 2022

    Young Curator hcmf//, Huddersfield 2019 - 2021

    Artist Advisor Threshold Sculpture, Leeds 2021 - 2022

    Steering Group member PANIC! The Tetley, Leeds 2021 - 2022

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