Roy Claire Potter
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: R.C.Potter@ljmu.ac.uk
Roy Claire Potter is a Senior Lecturer in Fine Art in the Liverpool School of Art and Design and is Programme Leader for MA Fine Art. Roy is an artist who publishes, performs and exhibits, working across experimental writing, spoken performance, sound art, sculptural installation and drawing. They are represented by A plus A gallery in Venice, and recent research-based artworks have been presented with international arts organisations including Book Works, Serpentine, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Tate Britian, Tate Publishing and PRIMARY.
Collaboration with musicians and sound artists is a frequent feature of their practice, producing audio works for music festivals and radio broadcasts. Collaborators have included a wide, dynamic range of acoustic practitioners including Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha, Berlin-based techno DJ Ziur, sound artist Kieron Piercy and doom folk singer-songwriter Bridget Hayden. These works have been presented by world-leading sound arts organisations including BBC Radio 3, Radiophrenia, Café OTO, Counterflows, and Supernormal.
Roy holds an MFA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford, a PGDip in Art Writing from Goldsmiths, and BA (hons) from Leeds Metropolitan University. They have lectured and taught studio and theory at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and have examined practice-based research across the UK and Europe, including Royal College of Art, Royal Academy Schools, Goldsmiths, Newcastle University, Sandberg Institute Netherlands, Curatorial School Venice, and Beaux-Arts Nantes, among many others.
Current practice-based research is focused on how experimental art writing and language-based performance art intersects with neurodivergent methodologies of communication, particularly in spatial linguistic frameworks like situated vocal encounters, but also extended to the spatial organisation of the page and first-person narrative form. They are specifically interested in the radical, socio-political potential of an autistic poetics for new modes of communality and communication and are establishing this inquiry through practice-based investigations into radio communications technologies.
Recently, Roy was appointed to curatorial team for the 41st EVA International, Ireland’s large-scale biennial of contemporary art, to develop the 2025 Platform Commissions initiative. Together with co-selector Iarlaith Ní Fheorais they wrote a thematic framework for the commission, inviting artists to expand on definitions of access. The five projects selected for production and presentation during the 2025 biennial embrace and explore the methodologies of access needs from the perspectives of marginalised disabled/queer/migrant communities. For this work, Roy was awarded a sabbatical period to write a case study of the impact these commissions have on the biennial publics and EVA as an international biennial organisation.
Roy sits on the editorial board for JAWS, the Journal for Art and Writing published by Intellect UK, and is the former Regional Editor for Merseyside at Corridor8, a publishing platform for art writing and criticism in the North of England. Besides teaching in the Higher Education sector, Roy is a tutor of hybrid writing with Arvon and has mentored artists through programmes organised by Tate Young Producers, Spike Island, CCA Derry-Londonderry, Wysing Arts Centre, and TOMA. Their long-standing events programme for artists working with writing, Shady Dealings With Language, has produced live events funded by Arts Council England and small grant-making and mentoring schemes since 2014.
Degrees
2016, University of Oxford, UK, MFA Fine Art
2013, Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom, PGDip Art Writing
2008, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK, BA Contemporary Creative Practice
Academic appointments
Programme Leader MA Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores University, 2023 - present
Interim Programme Leader BA Fine Art, Fine Art, Liverpool John Moores University, 2023 - 2023
Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, 2019 - present
Visiting Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2019 - 2020
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, 2017 - 2020
External Examiner, Sandberg Instituut, 2017 - 2017
Visiting Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016 - 2019
Chapters
Potter RC. 2024. Army rolls, a circumscription Marten H, Moore H, Stuart M. Hidden Noise Idiom :81-91 Bricks From The Kiln 978-1-0686252-0-6
Potter RC. 2024. Sharing the problem of listening Shin S, Revell I. Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear :259-266 Silver Press 9781739371715
Potter R. 2023. Where there is resonance Browne S. Echo's Bones: a parallel play :116-137 Fingal County Council. Dublin 9781914348068 Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Potter RC. 2021. Synopsis In Error Praxis :285-285 Dostoyevsky Wannabe. Manchester 9781838015664 Publisher Url
Potter RC. 2019. A bridge can tell a flood nothing Wallis C, Coustou E. Tate Publishing. UK 978 1 84976 634 0 Publisher Url
Books (authored)
Potter RC. 2024. The Wastes Palmer K. Book Works. London 9781912570201
Potter C. 2017. Round That Way Kivland S. MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE 978-1-910055-38-0
Potter C. 2016. Writing as research: Claire Potter Tate Publishing Author Url Publisher Url
Potter C. 2014. Mental Furniture Very Small Kitchen. Hastings 978-1-909925-04-5 Publisher Url
Book review
Potter R. 2023. Nothing escapes Maria Fusco's analytical eye Fite-Wassilak C. ArtReview, 75 :112-112 Publisher Url Public Url
Composition
Potter R, Jiha P. 2022. To Call Out Into The Night Publisher Url
Evans C, Potter RC. 2022. SUDDEN WEALTH with Roy Claire Potter Author Url Publisher Url
Potter RC, Piercy K. 2020. Three Sweep Between Publisher Url
Potter RC. 2020. Entrance song; last time Publisher Url
Potter RC, Piercy K. 2019. Adjurst Publisher Url
Potter RC, Piercy K. 2019. Eyes Rifle Publisher Url
Potter RC, Hayden B. 2018. I am come from a place Publisher Url
Potter RC, Hayden B. 2015. Mother To No Swimming Laughing Child Publisher Url
Internet publication
Potter RC. 2021. Sharing the problem of listening Publisher Url
Exhibition
Potter RC. Roy Claire Potter, solo exhibition
Potter RC. Rich Curtains Pending Performance
Potter R. Death to all pigs who enter here! Publisher Url Public Url
Potter R. Land Lay Moldbrest Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Potter RC, Ní Fheorais I. Platform Commissions, 41st EVA International Biennial
Performance
Potter RC, Jiha P. Roy Claire Potter and Park Jiha on The Late Junction Author Url Publisher Url
Potter RC, Ziúr . Roy Claire Potter and Ziúr live Publisher Url
Potter R. The Shooting of Aftershave Man Publisher Url
Potter RC, Jiha P. Roy Claire Potter and Park Jiha Publisher Url
Potter R, Jiha P. Roy Claire Potter and Park Jiha Publisher Url
Potter RC. An evening out at Primary with Roy Claire Potter and Kieron Piercy, and their special, special guests.
Potter RC, Piercy K. The Wastes
Potter RC. The Wastes at Park Nights: Temporal Magic
Potter RC. The Wastes at 'Katrina Palmer: What's Already Going On'
Editorial boards:
Journal for Art and Writing (JAWS), Editor, https://www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal-of-arts-writing-by-students. 2025
Corridor 8 - Contemporary art and writing in the North of England, Regional Editor for Merseyside and Cheshire, https://corridor8.co.uk/. 2021
Public engagement:
Other, Centre for New Writing at University of Manchester, Book launch, Invited speaker, Blackwells' Manchester, The Wastes. 2024
Other, Dead Ink Bookshop, Book launch, Invited speaker, The Wastes. 2024
Other, Rare Mags Bookshop, Book launch, Convener, Jen Calleja and Roy Claire Potter talk Goblinhood. 2024
Other, Axis Web, Roundtable, Invited speaker, Artists That Write. 2024
Other, Camden Arts Centre, Series launch, Invited speaker, Public Knowledge: Arrhythmia with Katrina Palmer, Roy Claire Potter and Alice Walter. 2024
Other, Goldsmiths, University of London, Public lecturer, Invited speaker, Goldsmiths Contemporary Art Talk: Roy Claire Potter. 2023
Media Coverage:
EHFM Edinburgh Community Radio, Type On Paper: Roy Claire Potter Interview 2024
Art Monthly, book review, The Wastes 2024
Art Monthly, exhibition review, Land Lay Moldbrest 2023
BBC Radio 3, Late Junction: Roy Claire Potter and Park Jiha in session 2020
Conference presentation:
Primary Digital Commissions, Assembly Nottingham: Collaborative Programming, Oral presentation. 2023
Performance on Stile, Working Class Academics Conference, Oral presentation. 2021
Writing in the Retreat, Postgraduate Research Conference, Reading University, Oral presentation. 2019
"Is this what I'm supposed to be doing?", AUTO—, Royal College of Art, Oral presentation. 2019
Restrictive Writing, Consortium Postgraduate Research Conference, Sunderland University, Workshop. 2018
Writing CHAVSCUMBOSS, Writing Photographs, London College of Communication, Oral presentation. 2018
Under Under Under: Claire Potter and Alan Dunn, Circles of Recognition, Henry Moore Institute, Pre-recorded Sonic Presentation. 2018
External PGR examinations performed:
Trans Art Institute for Creative Research, Confirmation of registration, Entangling the Felt: Autobiographical sourcing through interoception in devising choreographic work from embodied trauma. 2023
University of Huddersfield, MRes, A walk in the countryside: exploring memory through painting. 2020
Other Professional Activity:
Co-convener of the Hybrid Writing short course with Joanna Walsh for Arvon Foundation.. 2021
Other invited event:
Embodied Art Practices Symposium, Huddersfield University, Guest speaker. 2021
UnConference Symposium, University of Reading, Guest speaker. 2020