In September 2024, Claire was an artist in residence at Culture Hub Croatia PROSTOR (Split, Croatia), which was funded by the European Union and the Goethe-Institut as part of the Culture Moves Europe programme.
During her time there, Claire explored questions of travel to unfamiliar places, which grew, in part, out of the tourist-heavy city of Barcelona and her practice-led research on ways of communicating about place through creative practice, exploring how creative play can suggest different ways of encountering and engaging with familiar and unfamiliar places.
Claire is now developing a series of short video works which are sketches of her encounter with the city of Split. These sketches explore entry points into some of the tensions in the city, such as over-development with lack of enforced regulations, mass tourism, and the impact of the climate crisis on the green spaces in the city. In each of these sketches Claire centres the observations of the beyond-human, as an alternative to a human-centric view of place.
In addition to the residency, Claire has been working with Split-based visual artist Glorija Lizde, where they exchanged their experiences of place between Barcelona and Split.
Claire also exhibited at 42 Splitski Salon group exhibition in Split, from 21 September – 15 November 2024.
Claire’s residency and resulting work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
Claire Rosslyn Wilson 