Biography
I joined the fine art department at LJMU in 2016 as a visiting lecturer, and was appointed as a senior lecturer of contemporary fine art in 2019. I am a practicing visual artist, specialising in performance art and experimental writing with a specific interest in restrictive production methods, and socially and politically framed subject areas such as gendered violence, and the temporality of traumatic experience. I teach across the three years of the bachelor programme and supervise final year critical research writing.
Since 2015 I have taught on both undergraduate and graduate fine art and theatre programmes at universities and art schools across the UK, and also in France and Holland. I have delivered interdisciplinary workshops and symposia for PhD research students of fine art, and I have acted as external examiner for studio and thesis at graduate level in both the UK and Holland.
My bachelor degree is in contemporary creative practice and was awarded by Leeds Metropolitan University in 2008. After graduation I worked in a variety of highly gendered service roles in lap dancing bars and elderly care settings, where, latterly, I specialised in dementia care and took a particular interest in delusional temporal shifts and aphasia.
Between 2011 and 2013 I studied as a part-time student under Prof. Maria Fusco and received a post-graduate diploma in art writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. The following year I completed and published my first book of experimental fiction, and received a grant award from Arts Council England to programme a series of events that explored modes of art writing in cities across the country.
In 2015 I was awarded the Erna Plachte Scholarship and graduated under the supervision of Dr. John Cussans with a masters in fine art from the University of Oxford.
My art works have been commissioned and presented across the UK, and in Canada, Norway, France, Italy, and the Republic of Ireland. I have given live and broadcast vocal performances and readings, exhibited film and installation works, published experimental writing in collections and as single-authored books, and I have worked with musicians to produce audio works for commercial release and live performance.
A sample of commissioners between 2017 and 2019 are: Tate Publishing, London; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Mostyn, Llandudno; ChelseaSPACE, London; Electra Productions, London; Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; and A+A gallery in Venice.
Academic appointments
Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019 - present
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, 2018 - 2019
Visiting Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016 - 2019
Publications
Other
Potter RC. 2019. A bridge can tell a flood nothing Wallis C, Coustou E.
Carr A, Potter R, Leahy O, Gat O, O'Rielly S. 2018. She sees the shadows Carr A, Leahy O.
Book
Potter C. 2017. Round That Way Kivland S. MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE 978-1-910055-38-0
Potter C. 2014. Mental Furniture Very Small Kitchen. Hastings 978-1-909925-04-5 Publisher Url
Exhibition
Potter RC. Roy Claire Potter, solo exhibition
Potter RC. Rich Curtains Pending Performance
Performance
Potter RC. An evening out at Primary with Roy Claire Potter and Kieron Piercy, and their special, special guests.
Engagement & Impact
Other invited event:
In the retreat: writing absences of space and time, University of Reading, Annual symposium organised by PhD students at Reading School of Art, with guest speakers Roy Claire Potter (Liverpool John Moores University) and Dr Honor Gavin (University of Manchester).. 2019
Conference presentation:
Is this what I'm supposed to be doing?, AUTO—, Royal College of Art, Oral presentation. 2019
Research Grants Awarded:
Primary, Work In Common Artists' Residency, Grant value (£): 1,200.
Wysing Arts Centre, Polyphonic Artists' Residency, Grant value (£): 2,000.