Claire Blundell Jones' practice includes performance, video, installations and participatory public art. She creates work mainly in the public realm, which develops directly out of the relationships built between the audience and herself.

Tumbleweeds will be a series of public performances where Claire uses a leaf blower to escort tumbleweeds to various city and landscapes across Great Britain and beyond. This project will culminate performance, photography and video.

Kissing will involve eighteen individuals kissing in specific public spaces for ten minutes as a social living sculpture.

BA (Honours) Fine Art - Painting
Completed in June 2004 Wimbledon School of Art, London
Focus in performance / video / installation

• Artist Facilitator for sculpture tours and workshops (Contractual) at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Ongoing)
• Workshop leader for Youth Point, working on Arts Award with young people with emotional and attitude needs
• Gallery Assistant at Leeds Met University Gallery

• 29-13.07.08 Dating Workshop 08
  Artist Residency in Luxembourg in conjunction with Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain and University of Luxembourg
• 26.04.08 Time & Tidal Flow
  Hull (commissioned artist) performance in conjunction with Hull Time Based Arts and Newwork Yorkshire
• 27.03.08 TATE Liverpool
  have commissioned "Kissing" performance for late at the Tate evening
• 14-16.03.08 Roam
  (invited artist) Tumbleweed performance around Loughborough city centre in association with Radar, a local arts organisation and a festival on art and walking.
• 4.11.07 Perambulator with Leeds Met University Gallery & Theatre
  Kissing - six couples kiss in close proximity for 10 minutes in corridors /lifts.
• 12.10.07 Light Night (Leeds)
  Collaboration with Flash Mod to create mass hugging piece and performance of blowing mini-tumbleweed along streets
• 27 - 30.09.07 ANTI - Festival, Finland (Invited commissioned Artist)
  Daily performance of Introducing Tumbleweeds to the Finnish Landscape
• 01.09.07 - 07.09.07 Miniature Art Show at 42 New Briggate
  Mini steel wire sculptures for sale
• 21/08/07 - 23/09/07 Regional Artists Open Show
  Leeds City Art Gallery. Committee selected video of "Tumbleweed in London"
• 21/08/07 - 25/08/07 Summer Show
  Visual Arts exhibition at 42 Briggate Gallery, Leeds
• 10/08/07 - 31/08/07 Flock(Launch of Deviate Projects)
  Visual Arts Exhibition at GX Gallery, Camberwell - London
• 23/06/07 Perambulator (Live art and media event in conjunction with the Showrom)
  Performance - Sheffield
• 06/05/07- 20/05/07 The Workers
  Mine Bar- Leeds University
• 23/09/06 Fresh Festival - Introducing Tumbleweeds to The British Landscape
  Claire escorts a genuine American tumbleweed down the main shopping street of Hasting with a leaf blower as part of Fresh Festival.
• 11- 26/05/06 The Mutation
  Interactive exhibition using surveillance technology for a delicate matter (a miniature gallery) held at East Street Arts in Leeds.
• 8 - 9/09/05 Lights Out at the Meat Factory
  'Girl With Comfort Blanket' was an interactive two-screen video installation called for a group show in Nottingham.
• 28/05/05 Lounging on Red Couches: A public dialogue on safety in Hyde Park
  Artist and Project Manager for large scale community project.
  
  In conjunction with Situation Leeds Contemporary Art Festival

• 15.02.08 Exploding Cinema, London
• 17.12.07 Portobello Film Festival, London
• 01.12.07 Roadside Attraction, London
• 19-20.10.07 and 1-4.11.07
  Red Rock Festival
  Short film listed for Competition shorts and "Aglets" category
• 12.04.07 EXP: 24 at Arts @ Trinity, Leeds
• 10/04/07 Shorts: Against the Grain
  Norwich Arts Centre Film Screening
• 27/01/07 Fresh Video and Live Art Festival - Over ground video
  Introducing Tumbleweeds to the British Landscape (1) and The Hug Machine

• Selected artist for Live Art Development Agency's National Platform Documentation Project 2006/2007
• Part-time lecturer for Performance Art workshop (3 days) to Foundation BTEC students at Leeds College of Art & Design in February 4th-7th 2008
• (Ongoing)Creative Partnerships Facilitator through Diversity Dance
• 16.10.07 Arts Council Evaluation Report for Young People's Participatory Theatre Residential Weekend
• 18.10.07 Deaf Awareness Training. (Yorkshire Sculpture Park)
  Attended workshop, learned techniques and completed exercises on how to work with deaf people of all ages.
• October 2007 Commissioned to write report for Newwork Yorkshire regarding ANTI Festival and Finnish Live Art scene.
• Project Grants 2004-2005 from City Council of Leeds (£300), University of Leeds (£1,000) and Scarman Trust (£1,000).
• Thomas Danby College, Leeds.
  BTEC in Interactive Media completed in June 2005.
• Chesterfield College BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies in Art & Design.
• Frontier, Madagascar.
  BTEC awarded for Tropical Habitat Conservation completed in September 2004.
  Completed questionnaires, report and presentation on Socio-economics research in Madagascar.

• 'Northern Exposures' interviewed for essay on 'What is Performance Art?'
• Sited bodies at ANTI-Festival lecture given by Jennie Klein (US) at Anti-Festival conference. 27.09.07 work reviewed in context of gender.
• The Roll of the dice Review of Flock exhibition
• http://stephenart-east.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
• Yorkshire Evening Post 13.09.07
• "Artist's on a roll... Tumbleweeds on the streets in the name of art"
• "The Mutation" Metro listing. 22/05/06
• "The Mutation" Leeds Guide 24/05/06
• "The Mutation" Northern Exposure 11/05/06
• "Look around the festival, picture book: Situation Leeds Visual Art Festival."
• Leeds: Vitrine Publishing, 2005.
• "Read about the festival, textbook: Situation Leeds Visual Art Festival."
• Leeds: Vitrine Publishing, 2005.
• Whatley, Kim. "Being a couch potato can be more constructive than it seems." Leeds Guide. 18 May - 2 June 2005.
• "Situation Leeds." Metro. 16 May 2005.
• "Citywide Situations" Jonathan Trayner a-n magazine May 2005

• Recording and exhibiting voices in the community
• Article published in The Scarman Trust Newsletter, spring 2006
• "Lounging on Red Couches." Hurley Burley. Issue 5, Spring 2005.
• Lounging on Red Couches: A public dialogue on safety in Hyde Park
• Project booklet; Leeds: Burley and Hyde Park Community Safety Project, 2005.