Claire Rookes

I am a Community Artist, Project Lead and Qualified Art Teacher with over 17 years experience working across community, educational and cultural settings in West Yorkshire. I am based in Bradford, and my practice centres on visual arts, printmaking and site-responsive approaches that explore place, heritage and collective experience.

I hold an MA in Fine Art from Falmouth University, completed in 2025. My recent professional roles include Project Lead for Give Bradford’s cultural needs project, the Bingley Creates project in partnership with Bingley Arts Centre. I have also worked with BD2025 on the Wild Uplands programme, Our Patch, Library printmaking workshops and creative wellbeing walks.

Alongside this, I continue to design, write and deliver both short and long-term creative programmes with a strong focus on arts, wellbeing and community engagement. Much of my work is rooted in the history, landscape and culturally diverse communities of Bradford and the surrounding area.

Establishing my home studio has enabled me to deepen my practice, expand my methods and commit to a more ambitious, sustained body of work. My recent MA in Fine Art has strengthened my conceptual and material approaches, broadened my networks and supported the development of environmentally conscious, sustainable methods, which have evolved into creating and leading land art sessions.