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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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