Claire’s practice encompasses visual art, writing, educational facilitation and engagement.
Writer, visual artist and educator, Claire Collison specialises in brokering engagement for museums and art galleries, and produces resources for the Government Art Collection. Claire was the first MaxLiteracy Writer at Kettle’s Yard, and is the MaxLiteracy Awards programme coordinator for NAWE (National Association for Writers in Education). She runs Write From Art, and teaches Creative Writing at City Lit.
Claire’s first novel, Treading Water was a finalist in the Dundee Book Prize. Her prizewinning poetry is widely published. In 2018 she was awarded the inaugural Women Poets’ Prize (Rebecca Swift Foundation). She is a founder member of Poets for the Planet.
Claire Collison picture credit: Patrick Beirne
Writer
Now You See Me: A collaboration with Liz Orton
Artist
Rivers of the World poster (Shona Watt & Claire Collison)
in situ on South Bank as part of Thames Festival