Clara Elliot is a Scotland-based artist with a background in Landscape Architecture and History of Art. Her work takes an interest in the social and ecological systems that shape the spaces and places around us, often exploring themes of interconnection between people and the natural world.
Her approach is grounded in community and environmental engagement, with projects emerging from research carried out through fieldwork, workshops, conversation and consultation.
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 – Artist in Residence, Brìgh: Stories in Stone
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