Fabia Claris

TRAINING

•Working Men's College, 2002: Quark Xpress

•Westminster and Kingsway College, 2002 -03 : IT (ECDL, CLAIT desk top publishing, spreadsheets, databases)

•ILAM, Reading, 2002: fundraising

•Kensington and Chelsea College, London: 2007 to date: professional development diploma in sculpture

•Prince’s Drawing School, London: 2004-06: two-year postgraduate drawing course

•Birkbeck College, London, 2000-01: diploma in arts management

•Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, 1991: anatomy

•Dick Reid, York, 1983-4: carving apprenticeship

•Wimbledon School of Art, 1981-3: sculpture

•Central School of Art and Design,1980-81: foundation

•New Hall, Cambridge, 1972-5: English, BA Hons. (Cantab), 2/1

•Lycée Français de Londres, 1958-71: 10 O levels, 4 A levels, 1 S level, Use of English; bilingual in French and English

AWARDS

•Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, 1992: to Italy and France to study anatomy in relation to sculpture

EXHIBITIONS

•Sculpture show, Hortensia Gallery, Kensington and Chelsea College, London, January-February 2008

•Black Swan Arts Open, Frome, January-February 2008

•‘PURE_drawing and Illustration’, Ferreira Projects, London, January-February 2008

•‘Figure it Out’, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire, November 2007-January 2008

•Chichester Open, November 2007

•Black and White exhibition, Claire Galleries, Birmingham, March-April 2007

•New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London, December 2006

•The Prince’s Drawing School, London, October-November 2006

•‘Inspirations from Old Masters’, Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, October 2006

•‘After Michelangelo’, Centre for Recent Drawing, London, June-July 2006

•The Prince’s Drawing School, London, October-November 2005 and 2006

•Oxford artweeks

WORK HISTORY

I have been self-employed since 1985, working in a range of fields including arts administration and project management, education and publishing as well as translation, and generally on more than one project at a time.

ARTS ADMINISTRATION / PROJECT MANAGEMENT

•May-July 2004: Roundhouse, London: photography and exhibition co-ordinator for Journeys exhibition

•February-July 2003: Paddington Arts, research for Youth Arts Online, nationwide directory of youth arts training providers

•May 2002 - March 2003: Jelly Leg'd Chicken Arts Centre, Reading, education co-ordinator, with a brief to develop audiences and widen participation, responsible for researching, planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating a wide-ranging educational programme of activities inside and outside the gallery, working with young people and adults, schools, community groups, other organisations and agencies, some teaching

•June - September 2002: London Youth Arts Network, research for and compilation of directory of youth arts organisations in London

•May - August 2001: London Youth Arts Network, visual arts co-ordinator for `Take Part at the Start', a one-day event held at the Royal Festival Hall, responsible for researching, planning and implementing the visual arts part of a multi-arts programme, with a brief to be inclusive, covering the visual arts in the broadest possible sense at all levels and across all boroughs, tracking down particularly as much as possible in the `hard to reach' boroughs where the arts have a low profile. The programme brought together an exhibition of banners, paintings, drawings, textiles, photographs over 3 floors, and included appearances by stiltwalkers and displays of festival costumes, as well as workshops ranging from paper fashion to carnival masks, showings of videos, and seminars on careers in the visual arts

•Arlington Mill Museum and Art Gallery, 1988-9: assistant to the director, responsible for putting on a season of monthly exhibitions of contemporary art and for producing explanatory material about mill machinery

•Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery, 1985-6: cataloguing and illustrating collection of Chinese textiles, leading to exhibition catalogue and colouring sheets for children

•Tate Gallery, 1977: temporary museum assistant working on Stubbs' Haymakers and Reapers appeal

EDUCATION

art teaching

•March 2008: Art Academy, London, drawing, diploma students

•April 2007 to date: Community Focus, Barnet, life and portrait drawing, adults; recycled sculpture workshop

•October-November 2002: Maiden Erlegh School, Reading, life drawing, year 12 and 13 students

•January-June 2000: North and West Oxford Community Education Committee, life drawing, adults and year 11 and 12 students

•October-December 1999: School of Architecture and Landscape Design, University of Greenwich, 1st year students

•July 1998 and 1999: Life Drawing Summer Intensive, Oxford, joint organiser and tutor, anatomy and life drawing, all ages

English literature and other teaching

•September 2003 to date: Westminster Tutors, London: English Literature GCSE, AS and A2 level

•September 1998-June 2000: Camden Tuition Agency, London, English literature A level, 1st year essay writing skills

•September 1981-June 1983: Mander Portman Woodward Ltd, London, English language and literature, O, A and Oxbridge level

•September 1978-June 1979: Cetradel, Paris,: English as a foreign language, adults

•September 1977-June 1978: Collingham Tutors, Hogarth Tutorials, and Kensington Private Tutorial College, London, English literature and Latin, O and A level

examining

•March 2000-ongoing: International Baccalaureate, Cardiff, examiner World Literature assignments and Commentary paper, responsible for marking candidates' work; senior examiner on Commentary paper from 2003, responsible for overseeing and standardising the marking of a team of examiners, and, as part of a team of fellow senior examiners, assisting in the grade award and review

•Edexcel, London, January 2000 - April 2001: principal examiner, English literature AS and A level, involved in the whole process of examining from syllabus construction to grade award, setting question papers, standardising marking, participating in grade award, writing reports, producing support material for teachers and running INSET meetings

•OCR (incorporating Oxford Delegacy of Local Examinations), June 1991 - July 1999, 2004 to date: examiner, English literature A level, rising to senior and then principal examiner, involved as at Edexcel in the whole process of examining, and also with the drafting of the new syllabus for Curriculum 2000

•London and East Anglian Group, 1988-9: examiner English language GCSE

PUBLISHING

•Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995-2002: copy-editor, New Dictionary of National Biography

•Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1985- ongoing: proof-reader

•Yale University Press, 1980: picture researcher for catalogues raisonnés of the works of Whistler and Blake

TRANSLATION

•Manifestos on Architecture in Sixties America, Alan Colquhoun (re-translation from French of lost original),

 Black Dog Publishing, London, 2007 (yet to be published)

•Revision of English translations (from French and Spanish) for catalogue of Juan Gris exhibition at the

  Museo de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid 23 June -19 September 2005

•Benoît Boëlens van Waesberghe, ed., European Master Drawings Unveiled, Ludion, Amsterdam-Ghent,

  2002, ISBN 90-76588-36-8

•Art 20, The Thames & Hudson Multimedia Dictionary of Modern Art, Thames & Hudson, 1998, ISBN 0-

  50010-0152

•Jacques Thuillier, Georges de La Tour, Flammarion, 1993, ISBN 2-08013-5244

•Alain Mérot, Nicolas Poussin, Thames & Hudson, 1990, ISBN 1-55859-1206

•José Alvarez and François Olivier Rousseau, Andrée Putman: A Designer Apart, Thames and Hudson,

  1990, ISBN 0-84781-2103

•Colston Sanger et al., Jacques Laurent Agasse 1767-1849, Tate Gallery, 1988

OTHER

Collett, Dickenson, Pearce and Partners (Advertising), London, 1976-7: account executive