I’m Claire Robertson, a word artist who also goes by the name ‘Bluelead Projects’.

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I experiment with language and work within different art forms including performance art, calligraphy, letterpress printing, bookbinding, music and audio recordings.

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I often use rites and rituals to explore trauma and ecstatic experiences within my site-specific work.

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I’m based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire and have a background in Film, Television, Theatre and Installation.

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I explore different poetic techniques, inspired by my research into multi-sensory poetics, synaesthesia and the materiality of language.

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“There's something very difficult to categorise about her work, which I personally enjoy; every time I see her I am left with the feeling that something shamanic and very feminine (almost uncomfortably so - like walking into my sisters' bedroom as they were dressing) was happening.

Where so much spoken word has nothing much to offer but the laugh, or vulgarity or self-definition, Robertson’s seems like a warm prayer for the atheist and because of that compelling and important. I felt both times it was like watching a priestess from a very long time ago.”

David Spencer, German British dramatist and radio play author

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Some of my projects literally take years (one book took 12 years) to make, whereas others are more spontaneous given the audience, the live site-specific-space and whether it be a solo project or collaboration.

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If you’d like to collaborate on a project or simply to get in touch, please use the contact page.

Thank you!