Clara is a Scotland based artist with a background in landscape architecture and art history. Her practice centres around the relationships between people and place, exploring the sociopolitical and ecological contexts that underpin these dynamics. Her projects frequently stem from community engagement and cross-disciplinary collaboration, foregrounding situational and embodied forms of research to culminate in process-oriented and site-responsive artworks.
2025 – Commissioned Artist, Renfrewshire Cycle Arts
2022 – Artist in Residence, Begehungen Kunstfestival
2022 – Contributing Artist, Loch Arkaig Forest Art Trail
2021 – Artist in Residence, Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership
2015 – Co-curator, Sidney Sussex Arts Festival
2025 – Sea Change Artist, Culture for Climate Scotland
2025 – Artist in Residence, ‘Gulliver’s Garden’, Crag Community Arts
2025 – Artist in Residence, ‘Brìgh: Stories in Stone’, Nether Lochaber Community Association
2022-2024 – Landscape Architect, Wardell Armstrong
2020-2022 – Tutor in Landscape Architecture history & theory, Edinburgh College of Art
2019-2020 – Graduate Landscape Architect, TGP Landscape Architects
2015-2017 – Policy & Communications roles, various
2017-2019 – Landscape Architecture MLA (Distinction), Edinburgh College of Art
2012-2015 – History of Art BA (Hons), University of Cambridge