Main Areas of Focus

My interests are wide-ranging, primarily in how human beings affect and are affected by the natural world of which we are part, and the related theology and psychology of connectedness.

Artist

Creating beautiful and thought-provoking art as a means of supporting care for planet and people, nurturing a sense of place, and building community

Writer

Articles and blogs on economics, environment, nature, attentiveness, applied theology, arts, and anything that interests me

Consultant

» Website development and training
» Energy efficiency and renewable energy consultancy
» Research and reporting

Latest News and Produce

What I’ve recently produced. What I’m working on. What’s in the pipeline.

News

Art Work

Art Week Exeter is a go-go! And it turns out that I had a bit more in show than I thought. The main event (for me) is “Minecraft my home". The Minecraft St Loyes world is available to download and play online, and on Saturday 26 May I’m holding a meetup to share our explorations and creations.

Blog

25 pints

Recently I received through the post a small package from the Blood service: a letter, certificate and badge to mark my 25th blood donation. I didn't expect to feel so honoured and proud.

Article

"Working with Gold" in Digby News

One of my undertakings as Artist in Residence with Digby Community Association was to write about my work for the "Digby News", that is published each November.

Exhibition/Installation

Roll up! Roll up to the Art Vending Machine!

The Art Vending Machine is a fun installation that sells playing card-sized art to the regular punter. "Green|Blue: Drop Slow Tears", the mini mirror tears, are one of eleven different multiples during the 2017/18 season.

Performance/Event

"Patterns": a Studio 36 production

Way back in the mists of time, during Art Week Exeter 2017, I had a conversation about patterns with Veronica Gosling of Studio 36. Five months later I'm singing 20th century classics and knitting on stage.

Recording

"...and the Greatest of these is Love"

In their second album, Antiphon presents world premiere recordings of three choral works by Michael Walsh: an unaccompanied Mass of the Holy Trinity; a full-scale Requiem Mass; and The Way of Love, a setting of five love poems by Rupert Brooke. We recorded it in July 2017 in the crossing and Lady Chapel in Exeter Cathedral.

Talk/Workshop

"Minecraft my home" meetup during Art Week Exeter

"Minecraft my home" is an ongoing activity as part of my "Working with Gold" programme of public art in St Loyes. It is a re-creation of St Loyes as a world in the Minecraft game. During Art Week Exeter, I held a meetup to explore the world together, share what we have been creating, and build more stuff.

Academia

Peer-reviewed Papers and Articles - Health

Papers and articles written as part of my work at the Met Office during 2005-07 on health forecasting and anticipatory care, and accepted by peer-review for publication.

Random Work Generator

There are a number of threads running through all my work. Here’s a random sample from each.

Attentiveness

Zombie Apocalypse

"I would ask you to take a walk on your own (where and at what time of day is up to you) for at least half an hour. I would like you to walk ‘as’ the last human survivor of a zombie apocalypse."

Environment

What the frack?

Clare Bryden. What the frack? Third Way Magazine, October 2014.
Depending who you ask, hydraulic fracturing – fracking – is either a panacea for our energy crisis or an environmental apocalypse in waiting. Clare Bryden drills through the propaganda in search of some answers.

Making

"Particulart: Up in the Air" pop-up at Relight My Fire

"Up in the Air" popped up for a second time at the Relight My Fire festival of energy and the arts run by RegenSW. Indoors this time, and slimmed down without roof or games area. It just about fit in the space.

Place

Listen intently and then get your hands dirty

Clare Bryden. Listen intently and then get your hands dirty. Church Times, Issue 7749, 23 September 2011.
After a year living in community at Mucknell, Clare Bryden offers a Benedictine perspective on the crisis in sustainability.

Play

Story of "Free Art Friday Exeter"

Free Art Friday is a worldwide movement that has existed for many years. I started Free Art Friday Exeter in July 2015, and collaborate with other artists in leaving pieces in public places to be discovered and taken for free.

Public Engagement

What three words...?

What are the places that mean something to you? What three words...? started out as a coding exercise. I'd been learning Javascript, and wanted to put it into practice.

Science and Data

"Particulart: Up in the Air" pop-up at WAM Fest

That's nothing to do with the 1980s pop group, but the Festival of Weather, Art and Music. The 2016 event was all about "Extreme Weather and You", and there were loads of activities on the programme, from print-making to climate roulette.

Social Justice

Letter to Hugo Swire MP

How is it that in a country as wealthy as the UK, more than 500,000 people are reliant on food parcels? Please represent your constituents, and do something to address food poverty, injustice and inequality.