Clare Pattinson discovered automata building in 2010 while visiting an artist’s open studio event. Having previously studied ceramics, animation, humanities and plumbing, her fascination for a craft combining all sorts of skills was evident for someone with such various interests. She started with basic mechanisms and hasn’t stopped! She improves and complexifyies her pieces as she goes along. Her work has a strong element of social and political satire attached to it as a reminder of her years working with socially vulnerable people. Describing herself as “a little nomadic”, Clare shares her time between Wales, England and France; her camper van-turned-mobile workshop together with her studio in France give her the possibility to create as she goes, wherever that may be.
Clare Pattinson