Claye Bowler is an artist based in the UK. His practice centres on collection and documentation of experience, memory and the remnants of humanity.

Bowler uses sculptural practices to highlight stories that are not historically collected through institutional means, often working with narratives of queerness and disability.

Whilst also working in museum registration, Bowler often incorporates, yet questions, the ethics, administration and aesthetics of museum collecting in his work.

Bowler has a strong connection to sound and music, increasingly integrating these elements into his work, using field recordings and traditional British folk song.

Current projects include Dig Me A Grave, a touring solo exhibition developed with support from Jerwood New Work Fund and Arts Council England. The work explores waiting, depression, rest, and transformation, drawing on lived experience of being trans. By reclaiming the grave as a site of rest rather than erasure, the work reflects on resilience, visibility, and the ways marginalised bodies navigate the world.

The exhibition tours Steamworks Gallery, London, Auction House, Cornwall, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield over 2025.

Recent work includes - Solo Exhibition: Henry Moore Institute (2022); Residency: CoLab (2025), Porthmeor Studios (2024), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2024), Jerwood Arts, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange (2023); Performance: Tate (2023), Yorkshire Sculpture International (2021); Group Exhibition: Winter Sculpture Park (2025), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2022), Attenborough Arts Centre (2022), Ugly Duck (2022).

His work is held in public collections: Arts Council Collection, Wellcome Collection, Otherness Archive, and Leeds Art Gallery.

He/him

@clayebowler

Photo by Henri T