Statement

Clare’s practice considers the unresolvable human desire for meaning.  Her insistence on minimal, repetitive systems expands and intensifies audience attention, raising questions about making and meaning, and communicating the impossibility of the finite or absolute. Clare’s works operate as poetic objects that elicit a slow, engaged looking and affective response in the viewer.

Her treatment of surfaces index Clare’s decisions and actions, reference art historical ideas about making and expose broader hierarchies of labour, making and materials.  Clare develops her work according to semiotic systems, which she then disrupts through employing materials in repetitive, labour-intensive and time consuming ways; generating the unexpected and facilitating crucial ‘happy accidents’. Clare works episodically and in series’ to further democratise and multiply meaning.

Clare was born in Melbourne, Australia and lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She works from Queen Street Studios, Belfast.