living and working between London and Cornwall
education
2018 - 2021 Camberwell College of Arts, BA Drawing
2017 - 2018 Truro and Penwith College, Tregye Campus, Foundation Diploma in Art & Design

exhibitions
2020 Don’t Panic, Southwark Park Galleries, London; From A to B Gallery, Camberwell College of Arts, London 
2019 Reductions Pop-UP, Matts Gallery, London; How to Draw Cool Things, Camberwell College of Arts, London
2018 Part 2, Hotel Elephant, London; Bakers Dozen, Cornwall; Page Turner, Cornwall

awards
2021 Cedric Morris Foundation Travel Award
2018 EatArt award, Bakers Dozen, best presentation
2016 John Frears Award 

artist publications
2021 home medi(t)ation
2020 the Sun shines hotter here but brighter there

collections
University of the Arts London








statement
Mapping the digital reading of the physical terrain, and the physical reading of the digital terrain, my work finds itself in no fixed medium. Growing up in Penwith (in Cornish penn means headland, wydh means at the end), I existed in a landscape scattered with the traces of mining, neolithic quoits, communication technologies, with grey skies and beautiful, diffused light. This lived foundation created a yearning to see through the stratification of history that formulated my idea of space.

Displaced from the motherland, I find myself in a muggier grey; one that retains the heat with no through-breeze. I seek comfort and familiarity in the liminal industrial spaces. An imagined rendering of a time and place just out of reach allows for increased sensitivity in mapping the various stratification within the terrain. A lack of a minds eye, Aphantasia, creates a heavy reliance on imagery and data to construct the reality of a space. Remnants of written history, field investigation, conversations, found imagery, drawing, maps, and my own photographs inform my spatial investigation for deeper understanding of the environments I find myself in. I walk to construct my own interpretation of the land, observing the mundanities lost through the flattening that occurs behind the screen. I also walk to clear my head of the complexities of existing in a chaotic and precarious world.



© Claudia Lehmann 2021
South East London & West Cornwall