ARTIST / CURATOR
ARTIST / CURATOR
ARTIST CURATOR
Clare Carswell MA(RCA) is a British/Irish artist based in Oxford, England.
She works in the intersections between performance, drawing and writing. She exhibits and performs in galleries, museums and for platform events in
the UK and internationally.
Her practice identifies the shifts in her identity as a woman artist shaped by cultural, familal, and other influences. Drawings, fiction writing and performative actions, are proposed as responses to discerned absences in the productivity, content and chronology of works in her own, and other women artist's, archives. Acknowledging the lived experiences that can account for such gaps, they are made visible through imaginative retellings rather than verisimilitude.
Recent works passaged the artist into her identity as an Irish citizen. Constructed tableaux of mementoes and landscapes, they are imagined traces of displacement, of familial yearning for a homeland left but never lived in. Works are informed by memories of the artist's migrant family as well of the wider Irish diaspora.
Clare works with Peta Lloyd as performance duo GIDDY STICKS. Their works promote absurdity as a life strategy, preferably with pudding !
Through the curation project COU COU Clare synergises her art practice with curation. She leads the BIDDY research and production group for older women artists, showcasing their work through BIDDY events.
Clare studied at Norwich School of Art and the Royal College of Art London.
She is currently studying for a Masters by Research Degree (MRes) at Oxford Brookes University. Her research subject is 'Adaptive Practice: Performance, ageing and longevity in women artists’ practice'.