Claudia Stocker is a science artist based in London. Her work focuses on interpreting cell-level biomedical sciences in a way that explains processes and interactions. She is particularly interested in subjects that are too small to see clearly, such as molecular biology, chemical structures, genetics and microbes.
Explaining cellular processes frequently involves distorting scales, condensing timelines, and exaggerating form. This is to ensure that all the details necessary to tell the story are visible. Picking which distortions count as artistic licence and which ones stray into artistic laziness is a key part of creating work.
Claudia is also director of science design studio Vivid Biology. She holds an MSci in Systems Biology from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Science Communication from the University of the West of England. She studied intensive observational drawing at the Royal Drawing School and completed her foundation diploma at UCA Maidstone.
2019
Creative Reactions, The Island, Bristol
LAUNCH: Great West, Mercure Bristol Grand Hotel, Bristol
2018
Creative Reactions, Hamilton House, Bristol
2017
Synthetic, University of Bristol, Bristol
Creative Reactions, Greenbank, Bristol
SYNBIOEXPO, Space Gallery, Bristol
2016
Creative Reactions, Number 90, London
ReDrawn, PAPER Arts, Bristol
DrosAfrica, Homerton College, Cambridge
PAPER studios exhibition, PAPER Arts, Bristol
2015
100 under 100, PAPER Arts, Bristol
Drawn II, Appach gallery, London
Creative Reactions, St Barnabas Church, Cambridge
Tracing Perception, 504 Space Gallery, London
Drawn, 57 Arts, London
2013
Merging Inks, Richmix, London
Cellular Polarity, The Royal Society, London
2010
Untitled, Cambridge Central Library, Cambridge
2009
Exhibit your Art!, The Cambridge Union, Cambridge
2008
Untitled, The Shop Jesus Lane, Cambridge
End of year show, University for the Creative Arts, Maidstone
2018-2022
MSc Science Communication,
University of the West of England
2014-2015
The Drawing Intensive,
The Royal Drawing School
2011-2012
MSci Natural Sciences,
University of Cambridge
2008-2011
BA (Hons) Natural Sciences,
University of Cambridge
2007-2008
BTEC Foundation diploma,
University for the Creative Arts