ARTIST / CURATOR
ARTIST / CURATOR
ARTIST CURATOR
Clare Carswell MA(RCA) is a British/Irish artist based in Oxford, England.
She works in intersections between performance, drawing and writing. She exhibits and performs in galleries, museums and for platform events in
the UK and internationally.
Her practice explores shifts in identity within lived female experiences shaped by cultural, familal, or other influences. New works - drawings, fiction writing and performative actions - are proposed as 'fillers' for discerned absences in the productivity, content and chronology of works in women artist's archives. They offer imaginative retellings rather than verisimilitude.
Recent works passage the artist into her post Brexit identity as an Irish citizen, in 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 collective memories of the artist's migrant family and of the wider Irish diaspora.
Clare also works with Peta Lloyd as performance duo GIDDY STICKS, exploring absurdity and ageing.
Clare synergises her art practice with curation in the COU COU curatorial project. She leads the BIDDY project which showcases the work of older women artists through exhibition and performance events, and the BIDDY BOOST research and production group for older women artists.
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'.