Faye Claridge

PhD Candidate

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Faye Claridge is an award-winning artist and PhD researcher examining the impacts of enforced anonymity in exhibiting artworks made in UK prisons. Her project examines tensions between the humanising potential of the visual arts in incarceration with growing ‘invisibility ideology’ for people in prison. Her empirical research embeds collaborative prisoner-led exhibition-making and also considers hypervisibility and the role of public audiences in meaning-making. Working with both male and female incarcerated people, Faye Claridge’s research looks creatively at the multiple ways representations of lived experience from marginalised and minoritised groups are controlled.

Numerous examples of Faye's collaborations supporting art-making in prison can be seen on fayeclaridge.co.ukLink opens in a new window, including pioneering international projects such as We RoarLink opens in a new window, the first creative exhibition ever to tour 10 prisons in England (plus a US exhibition and 18-month public library tour) and We Youth the first ever Brazil-UK youth custody art collaboration (exhibiting in both countries 2026-2027).

This PhD research is funded through a Midlands4Cities studentship and is supervised by Prof. Anastasia Chamberlen and Prof. Eileen John at the University of Warwick and Prof. Dominique Moran at the University of Birmingham.