About SSRU

Social Sculpture

Communication

Clive Adams

Clive Adams is the founder director of the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, an educational charity which explores new understandings of our place within Nature through the Arts.

CCANW opened up a project space in Haldon Forest Park near Exeter in 2006 and it's programme through to September 2008 focuses on the use and sustainablity of timber in contemporary architecture and design.

Clive has played an important supportive role in the evolution of Shelley Sacks latest project The University of the Trees which emerged from his invitation to develop a social sculpture project related to forests and trees. The research and development phase of the UoT project has been faciltated by CCANW, with a grant from the Arts Council of England.

Clive was gallery co-ordinator at Arnolfini, Bristol 1974-79 and director of Mostyn Art Gallery 1979-85 where his exhibitions ranged from those on Richard Long, Robert Smithson and David Nash to J.M.W. Turner. He has since worked as an artist's agent, developing the careers of Andy Goldsworthy and Peter Randall-Page, and as an independent curator, working on contemporary and historical exhibitions in the UK, Japan and Korea. His exhibition for The Lowry 'The Impossible View?' won the Museums and Heritage Award for best UK temporary exhibition of 2003.