About
Claire Malet’s subject is the natural environment. She lives and works in rural Herefordshire in the UK, her studio overlooking orchards, hills and woodland. Walking is an essential part of Claire’s day; looking at the landscape and the details within it, the changes through the year, the constant fragile cycle of growth, decay, renewal.
Claire makes objects using re-cycled precious and non-precious metals and ‘found’ materials. She works intuitively and experimentally, allowing and encouraging the innate characteristics of the medium to emerge. The materials she works with are chosen and combined to evoke and challenge the relationship we have with the natural world and our perceived values of the resources we use; as ‘raw’ material, Malet values a tin-can as much as a sheet of silver.
Central to Claire’s practice is to make her work in as an environmentally and ethically responsible way as possible. Further information can be found on the Environment & Ethics page at clairemalet.com.
