Claire Kearns (Organiser - Bradford Sound Women Network)
Claire Kearns (b. 1978) is a Northern British artist using sound as a medium to create site determined land art, installation and assemblage.
Kearns grew up in a working-class area of Bradford, something that would come to influence the way she uses sound in her work. She began using sound in her practice in 2004, after returning to education to study BA (Hons) Fine Art at Bradford School of Art (Bradford University, 2006). She gained a Masters in Sound Arts from London College of Communication (UAL, 2019).
In 2008 she started volunteering at Bradford Community Broadcasting, where she continued to use sound for exhibition. A year later she began working for BCB Radio, collaborating on projects with partner community radio stations across Europe, BBC Radio Leeds, receiving commissions from various arts organisations in Bradford to collect and produce local oral history soundscapes.
Bradford Stitch & Glitch Meet-ups, sessions and workshops for women, womxn and people of gender minorities to learn and share skills in DIY sound based creative activity. They meet 1st Saturday each month 11-2pm at Fuse Art Space, 7 Rawson Place, Bradford, BD1 3JP