Claire Luxton is a British contemporary multi-disciplinary artist working with photography, immersive installation and poetry. After receiving a BFA from Goldsmiths, Luxton’s practice quickly gained her recognition. At the junction of theatre, performance, photography, and technology, Claire Luxton revives the art of self-representation. Often triggered by something she has read, Luxton’s work explores local histories and their relationship to nature. Most of her projects start with an extensive research period where she looks for literary, artistic, botanical, animalistic, and musical references, and explores colours, textures, and objects. Using her own human features as a base for her compositions she constructs otherworldly narratives populated by butterflies, flowers, and clouds. Inspired by Renaissance portraits, all the components of her meticulous images, play with classical symbolism. A way into interpreting her portraits is through her carefully crafted titles and accompanying poems. Luxton performs detailed narratives for the camera. Her images first exist as a sculpted set, where the model, herself, shape-shifts thanks to cosmetics, props, and light. All the elements of her portraits are interconnected, and the ornamentation is complimentary. An immersive quality is achieved thanks to post-production digital technology, leaving the viewer wondering if they are looking at a painting or photography.