Clare Carswell is a British/Irish visual artist based in Oxford, England. She works in several media including performance, drawing, video and writing, with particular interest in collaboration and participatory projects through dialogue, interaction, and reciprocity.

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Her visual language is rooted in a fine art sensibility and feminist strategies, using gesture, sound and the drawn mark, migrating between the planned and the spontaneous. Strategies of play, comedy and improvisation shape vibrant connective works responding to audience, place and situation.

 

Her research method is informed by the relationship between the imagination, articulation and making. Disseminating the work, whether through performing, exhibiting, curating, inviting artists and others to participate in the process and understanding of experience and of art. 

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She synergises her own practice and curation in the COU COU project. Mentoring older women artists through the BIDDY project, to meet, share their work and experience, be productive, grow networks and exhibit their work.

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She currently works with artist Peta Lloyd as performance duo GIDDY STICKS, exploring the absurd in performance.