Claire Tindale is a visual artist working primarily with sculpture and installation. She uses the miniature, and variations in scale, as a conceptual framework, to explore physical and psychological spaces, responding to environments and those who occupy them. A hospital, empty office building and library, are some of the spaces that Claire has been commissioned to respond to.

Use of the miniature emerged in response to conditions of Dementia disease, with the creation of a 1/12th scale model of a care home. Conveying contraction in relation to mental capacity and physical space. She uses materials and processes most suited to ideas being conveyed, such as hand-casting chocolate houses for Working Towards a Goldilocks Society, a nod to the industrial model village of Bournville.

In 2021, Claire presented her most ambitious project to date, ‘Felt’, in the magnificant roof space at Salts Mill, Saltaire, Bradford. Commissioned by Saltaire Inspired, the site-responsive piece drew on the industrial heritage of the Mill and surrounding model village.

Exhibitions include: ‘Felt’, Salts Mill, Saltaire; ‘Time after [( )] after Time’, The Briggait, Glasgow; ‘Miniature Worlds’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; ‘BiblioTech’, The Portico Library, Manchester; ‘Start from Where You Are’: Second Degree Potentias, Bloc Project, Sheffield.

‘I plan to use my time at Cove Park to commence exploration of a completely new body of biographical work, reflecting on experiences of the diagnosis, treatment and recovery of a health condition from a personal perspective.’