Clare Chinnery studied Fine Art Painting at Liverpool John Moores University, where her practice developed around abstract storytelling, symbolism, and landscape. She was selected by The New Academy Gallery in London for the Northern Graduates exhibition in 1997 and continued to exhibit with them until the gallery’s closure in 2017. Clare has featured in numerous group exhibitions including ‘The Discerning Eye’ at Mall Galleries, London, ‘It Rose & It Fell’ at Terrace Gallery London, ‘Relics’ at Tate Gallery Liverpool and ‘Open Exhibition’ at The Royal Cambrian Academy in Wales. Clare was longlisted for the Women in Art Prize in 2024, this year she will present a major solo exhibition at The Hatch Gallery in New Brighton. Her work has been shown internationally and is held in private collections across the UK, USA, China, and New Zealand.

A central thread in Chinnery’s work is her fascination with art history - particularly 17th-century Dutch Vanitas painting. Her recent still life compositions draw on the symbolism and chiaroscuro techniques of the old masters, reinterpreted through the lens of contemporary culture. Many works are inspired by Memento Mori traditions, using complex and sumptuous arrangements to reflect on the impermanence of life and the certainty of death.