Biography
Jason Cleverly develops and designs situational, interpretive craft works for museums and art galleries.
Designed to create collaboration and participation, these artefacts enhance visitor experiences. Working across a range of materials and embedded technologies, this practice explores a personal preoccupation with interaction and affordance. His PhD thesis is a critical evaluation of this design practice: The Artist-designer: Situating Creative Interaction and Interpretation in the Museum, 2018.
Publications include:
- Design and museum interpretation: Contemporary characteristics and practice. Chapter for Design Objects and the Museum. Bloomsbury.
- Playing with words: Creativity and interaction in museums and galleries. Patel M. Heath, C. Luff P. Cleverly J. The Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship.
- Designing collaboration: Evoking Dr Johnson through craft and interdisciplinarity. Shear T. Cleverly J. Collaboration through Craft).
- Revealing surprise: The local ecology and the transposition of action. Cleverly, J, Heath, C, vom Lehn, D and Luff, P. Emotion and Social Interaction, Oxford University Press.
- Crafting participation: designing ecologies, configuring experience. D.Von Lehn, J. Cleverly, C. Heath, P. Luff. Journal of Visual Communication.
- Crafting participation: Interaction with and around aesthetic, tangible artefacts. D. vom Lehn, J. Cleverly, C. Heath, P. Luff.
Practice and installations include:
- The Enlightened Eye: Mineral viewer Interactive for Liskeard Museum, 2014 Work table and Escritoire: for House of Words exhibition Dr Johnson’s house London, 2009.
- Lineamentum: Interactive drawing Machinefor Royal Cornwall Museum Truro, 2007.
- Fly press and Stamp: Interactive for Museum of the Jewellery Quarter, Hockley Birmingham with John Grayson, 2006.
- The perceptive Engine Site specific commission For the Potteries Museum Hanley. Stoke on Trent, 2004, The Universal Curator.
- The Hunt Museum. Limerick Ireland. Interactive installation, 2003.
- Ghost Ship, S.O.F.A. Chicago, U.S.A. for The Crafts Council and S.H.A.P.E. 2001.
Links
jasoncleverly.com
BA Product and Furniture Design