A conversation between artist Claye Bowler and art historian Andrew Cummings about the exhibition Dig Me A Grave, burials, connection to the land , latex, soil, death & more.
Links
Dig Me A Grave dates & venues:
Steam Works Gallery, WIP Studios, Wandsworth, London
https://www.wipspace.co.uk/dig-me-a-grave
21.03.25 - 11.05.25
PV 20.03.25
Auction House, Redruth, Cornwall
21.06.25 - 19.07.25
PV 20.06.25
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
04.10.25 - 02.11.25
A sculpture from this body of work was also part of a group exhibition
Winter Sculpture Park 2025
01.03.25 - 12.04.25
Claye’s exhibition Top (2022) is being shown again at Queer Britain 10/09/2025 - 23/11/2025
Compilation of protests and actions against the Supreme Court: https://whatthetrans.com/compilation-of-protests-against-the-supreme-court/
Fundraising towards five transfem causes in the UK https://www.fiveforfive.co.uk/
Claye on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/clayebowler/?hl=en
Claye’s website: https://www.clayebowler.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAafm3sQ4CBOg5SYofyAmlntP0rmy1-pJZufTxZbWUseEfV5LruEAwpCwAY3MVw_aem__qa4reKB4fVG85oxlrdUjw
Andrew: https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/2344-andrew-cummings
https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/research-resources/publications/immeditations-postgraduate-journal/immediations-online/immediations-no-18-2021/the-promise-of-parasites/
Fire Choir https://thenestcollective.co.uk/projects/fire-choir
The False Bride, Folk Song that Claye mentions with ‘I’ll lie in my grave until I get over you’
About the Museum Registrar Traineeship: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/news/article/2675/museum-registrar-traineeship-opportunity-in-leeds-from-september-2024#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20traineeship%20sees%20the%20successful,collections%20work%20amongst%20other%20students.
Brandon Labelle: https://brandonlabelle.net/
Gluck: https://www.npg.org.uk/schools-hub/gluck-by-gluck
Living Well Dying Well - Andrew’s End-of-Life Doula foundation training - https://lwdwtraining.uk/
Grief Tending in Community https://grieftending.org/
Francis Weller, The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, North Atlantic Books, 2015
Camille Barton, Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding our Sorrow, North Atlantic Books, 2024
Top, at Henry Moore Institute https://henry-moore.org/whats-on/claye-bowler-top/
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