Claire Doherty

Claire Doherty in 2018

Claire Doherty MBE is a creative director and arts producer known for her producing and writing on place and the arts.

Career

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Doherty was curator of Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and FACT in Liverpool before becoming the founder director in 2002 of Situations,[1] Bristol-based international arts commissioning and producing organisation. Situations' projects over a 15-year period included Theaster Gates' first UK public project Sanctum in Bristol;[2] Philip Hoare's The Tale, a multi-site, cross-artform site-specific project in Torbay;[3] and One Day Sculpture across five cities in New Zealand.[4]

She was Director of Arnolfini, centre for contemporary arts, in Bristol, England, from 2017–18. Doherty led the organisation through an 18-month transition following the loss of its Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) status, which occurred before Doherty's arrival in 2017.[5][6] The transformation included Arnolfini's most successful exhibition until then – Grayson Perry's The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever![7] – and the Imagine New Rules campaign to reimagine a 21st-century arts organisation.[8] Doherty's cross-artform programme at Arnolfini during the transition period included: Eclipse Theatre's Black Men Walking,[9] In Between Time's We are Warriors,[10] Black Girl Convention,[11] Don't Tell Your Mother[12] and Creative Youth Network.[13] Doherty also oversaw the establishment of Now or Never, youth-led creative studio[citation needed] and two Inspiring Women in the Arts mentoring events in Bristol.[14]

Doherty was a Trustee of Artes Mundi, Cardiff, the international biennial art exhibition and prize.[citation needed]

She was Creative Director and Executive Director of GALWAD, for the National Theatre Wales.[15]

Recognition

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In 2009, Doherty was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Award for Outstanding Cultural Entrepreneurs.[16]

In 2015 Doherty was appointed MBE 'For services to the Arts in South West England'.[17][18]

In 2018 the Bristol Post included her in its list of "The 100 most influential women in the West [of England]".[19]

Selected publications

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  • Doherty, Claire (2015). Out of Time, Out of Place: Public Art Now. London: Art/Books. ISBN 9781908970176.
  • Doherty, Claire (2004). Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation. London: Black Dog Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1904772064.
  • Doherty, Claire (2009). Situation. London: Whitechapel Gallery. ISBN 978-0854881734.

References

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  1. ^ "About". Situations. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  2. ^ Searle, Adrian (30 October 2015). "552 hours of surprises: artist brings open-mic mayhem to Bristol". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  3. ^ "The Tale". Situations. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  4. ^ Delany, Max (16 June 2009). "One Day Sculpture". Frieze (124). Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  5. ^ "Arnolfini announce appointment of Situations' Claire Doherty as new Director of Arnolfini from 1st August 2017". Arnolfini. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  6. ^ "Arnolfini to become subsidiary charity of UWE Bristol". Bristol 24/7. 28 January 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  7. ^ Brown, Mark (1 January 2018). "Bristol's once troubled Arnolfini gallery starts to pull in the crowds". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 February 2019.
  8. ^ "Imagine New Rules". Arnolfini. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  9. ^ Minamore, Bridget (23 January 2018). "Black Men Walking: a hilly hike through 500 years of black British history". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  10. ^ Cole, Helen (26 November 2018). "We Are Warriors". In Between Time. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  11. ^ "Black Girl Convention". Black Girl Convention. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  12. ^ "PARTY | Don't Tell Your Mother". Arnolfini. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  13. ^ "Creative Youth Network". Creative Youth Network. 27 November 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  14. ^ "#PressForProgress Inspiring Women". Arnolfini. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  15. ^ "Festival UK* 2022". National Theatre Wales. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
  16. ^ "Case Study: Claire Doherty". Paul Hamlyn Foundation. Retrieved 19 February 2019.
  17. ^ "Situations Director Claire Doherty awarded MBE in New Year Honours". Situations. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  18. ^ "Ms Claire DOHERTY". London Gazette. No. 61450. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  19. ^ "The 100 most influential women in the West". Bristol Post. 8 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.


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