Artist
Claire Morwood
Digital Artist & Video Game Developer
Claire Morwood
Themes:
Cross-Disciplinary Digital Practice, Memory, Identity & Lived Experience, Innovation in Independent Game Making, Entrepreneurship, Storytelling, and Natural Science.
Meet Claire Morwood
Claire is a self-taught video game developer, speaker and workshop facilitator with experience across a wide range of digital arts practices including art, music and programming.
She primarily works within interactive digital arts, exploring the ways that interactivity and play can be used as a medium for creative expression and storytelling.
She is also interested in increasing the diversity of voices heard within games.
Claire’s work with 3-Fold Games focuses on collaborating with and telling stories from underrepresented communities, for example in our game Before I Forget we worked with the charity Alzheimer’s UK to develop a game about a woman living with dementia.
She is a member and former director of the digital arts collective Biome Collective, and she co-founded the games studio 3-Fold Games, whose debut game was nominated for a BAFTA in 2020.
Prior to games, her academic background was scientific, studying Geology and Palaeobiology.
Education
Claire holds a BSc in Geology and an MSc in Palaeobiology.
Biography
Claire is a self-taught video game developer, speaker and workshop facilitator with experience across a wide range of digital arts practices including art, music and programming. Her work has been showcased at the V&A, the British Library, and at several international video game events.
She is a member and former director of the digital arts collective Biome Collective, and she co-founded the games studio 3-Fold Games, whose debut game was nominated for a BAFTA in 2020.
Awards
Claire’s debut game with 3-Fold Games was nominated for a BAFTA in 2020. Her work has also been showcased at major UK institutions, including the V&A and the British Library.
Professional language Experience
Claire has taught in a wide variety of settings, including guest lecturing at a university, delivering an online video game programming course to a cohort of adults, 1:1 mentoring, speaking at conferences and panels, and facilitating creative workshops.
The workshops she runs focus on accessible collaborative play and art. She has run these with people from a range of ages and creative backgrounds
She has been learning Japanese for four years, studying via university evening classes and an intensive summer course in Kyoto.
She passed the JLPT N4 exam. She has travelled throughout Europe, Japan, the USA, and Thailand (for work).
