Claudia completed her PhD ( University of Westminster ) in July 2007. Thesis title: Shattered: Contemporary Women's Stories of Surviving Sexual Violence Mediated Through Ceramic Material Metaphor. Examiner: Griselda Pollock

This website includes images of the ceramic work, Shattered, which was shown at London Gallery West as part of the final submission for examination in 2007.

Claudia is now working on new projects at The Chocolate Factory studios in Stoke Newington, North London. http://www.chocolatefactoryn16.com/

Current projects and forthcoming events:

Conferences:

Connecting Cultures: Cartwright Hall Bradford, 17^th October 2008. Artist's Panel: ‘Artists and Public Collections in the 21^st Century: Opportunity or Risk?'

Ending International Feminist Futures?  24 & 25^th October 2008, University of Aberdeen. Presentation title: ‘Traffic: A Pot from Shattered'

Forthcoming solo shows:

How to Eat a Pomegranate, (working title), at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Esfahan, Iran, April and May, 2009.

Shattered, Original Gallery, London, November and December, 2009, (final dates to be announced).

I very much hope to have a preview of the Esfahan show in London early in 2009.

For regular updates particularly about the exhibitions and exhibition preview, please go to The C Word

Also in the pipeline:

Flotilla, (working title), a ceramic project on migration stories.Various articles and a book on feminism and ceramics. For more on all of these, see The C Word.