CLAIRE MANDER, DIRECTOR & CURATOR OF theCoLAB FOR WOMEN SCULPTORS

Claire Mander is the Director and Curator of theCoLAB, a London based curatorial practice which has operated beyond the white cube since 2011.   She conceives and creates opportunities for women sculptors to use unusual sites as experimental laboratories to realise their most ambitious, far-flung and life-affirming work. She recently transformed a neglected half-acre roof terrace on the roof of Temple tube station into the Artist’s Garden a platform for women artists to make large-scale site responsive interventions. She has curated over 40 mainly site-specific interventions including Sculpture Shock residency/commissioning programme for interventions into subterranean, ambulatory and historic sites in London, Headlands to Headspace landscape art commissions across Morecambe Bay and Sculpture showcasing the work of seventeen Nordic sculptors across three sites in London.     theCoLAB runs Body and Place drawing residencies in the landscape and is working on the Morecambe Bay Triennial, a residency based series of site responsive commissions across 100 miles of coast in the north west of England. Claire Mander sits on Westminster’s City of Sculpture panel and is a Board Member of the National Festival of Making and of the artist-led 303 Projects in Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Trustee and Chair of the Steering Committee of UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC). She is a member of AICA and has published two books and numerous catalogues and has given/chaired many talks about women artists and site-specific commissions including at RCA, The National Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery and about Skulpturlandscap Nordland. She holds an MA (Distinction) from the Courtauld Institute of Art and was a City solicitor. @thecolab.art [instagram] https://www.thecolab.art/temple            music ‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)  by TOT TAYLOR is used by kind permission of the artist ©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020) PRS/MCPS/PPL