Carol WEIR

Carol WEIR

An artist, author and researcher, Carol Weir was born in Buckinghamshire. After taking an HND in textile design at Bedford College, she moved to Cornwall in 2015 and studied at Cornwall College Camborne. Subsequently she graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) in Contemporary Creative Practice from Plymouth University. In 2018/19 she was awarded the Krowji Graduate Studio Award. In 2021 she obtained a Distinction for her MA in Illustration Authorial Practice at Falmouth University.

Carol is currently based in St Austell. Her work investigates issues surrounding the transience of life, memory and place, using a variety of media and techniques. As artist-in-residence at Wheal Martyn Clay Works, Cornwall's china clay history museum, near St Austell, Carol began an exploration of the Martyn family who founded the china clay pit, and her work continues to focus on the local china clay industry.

Her curatorial projects, both at Wheal Martyn, include Clay Journeys - From Cornwall to the World (2018) and Engineering the Earth (2019).

media

Painting in watercolour, mixed media, installations, papermaking, books

works and access

Wheal Martyn Clay Works, St Austell

exhibitions

2017: View Points, Truro Cathedral

2019: Prints from the Studio, The Poly, Falmouth

2019: Truro Art Exhibition, Heseltine Gallery, Truro

Open Studios Cornwall 2019; 2020 (postponed)

2019/21: Light and Clay, Wheal Martyn, St Austell

2021: Ebb & Flow, Falmouth University, Falmouth

2021-present: Not Here, Wheal Martyn, St Austell

2023: Truro Open - Spirit of Cornwall, Royal Cornwall Museum (10 Oct-20 Jan)

references

2020: The Promise: Winning (webcomic)

2021: Carthew the Absent House (self-published book)