Claire Kerr was born in North Tyneside in 1968 and studied at Magdalene College, Oxford, Wimbledon School of Art and Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology. She lives and works in Dublin.
She has been awarded numerous prizes including in 2013 Culture Ireland; 2012 Golden Fleece Award; 2011 Arts Council Bursary; 2010 Culture Ireland; 2009 Thomas Dammann Jr Memorial Trust Award; 2007 Culture Ireland and in 2002 the Fergus O’Ryan Memorial Award at the Royal Hibernian Academy.
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