Biography

Claire Burbridge currently lives and works in Ashland, Oregon. Burbridge was born in London in 1971, and gained her bachelor’s degree in Fine Art and the History of Art at Magdalen College Oxford and the Ruskin school of Fine Art in 1993. After completing a master’s in Fine Art printmaking at Camberwell College of Art and Design, she lived and worked as a practicing artist in London until 2010 when she relocated to southern Oregon. Her work is included in many private and public collections worldwide, notably the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia, Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and the Fidelity Bank Collection in Cincinnati. After her 2020 solo exhibition Pathways to the Invisible at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in Eugene, she was commissioned by the Oregon Arts Commission to do a large series of works, now permanently installed at Western Oregon University’s Natural Sciences building.