Dr Claire Holdsworth

Biography

Dr Claire M. Holdsworth is a writer, archivist and audio-maker. Specialising in sound theory, artists’ moving image (1960s to late 1980s), and technology-based art, her research considers the voice, investigating narration, historiography, archives, and social collectives, with a focus on feminist and queer subjects.

Between 2016 and 2018 she was an Early Career Research Fellow at Kingston School of Art (Kingston University London) and prior to that completed an AHRC funded PhD at Central Saint Martins (UAL) based in the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection in the CSM Museum.

Currently writing a monograph on the overlaps between experimental sound and expanded cinema in queer and feminist subcultures of the late-1970s, she undertakes a variety of research and curatorial projects, alongside programming and publishing work.

As an Associate Lecturer on the MRes Art: Moving Image at Central Saint Martins, Claire runs seminars on histories of experimental film and video, ecology, landscape, and sound, also running object-based sessions in the CSM Museum collections. They also lecture on other courses at UAL (including animation and game arts) moving between colleges and collections within UAL, and previously worked at the Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) research centre at London College of Communication.