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 reveals shifts in identity within lived experience shaped by cultural, familal, and other influences. Her new works - drawings, fiction writing and performative actions - are proposed as responses to discerned absences in the productivity, content and chronology of works in women artist's archives, 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 memories of the artist's migrant family and 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. With Peta Lloyd she leads the BIDDY BOOST 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'.