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| Lorraine Clarke | |
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Born Doncaster, Yorkshire. Currently living and working in London. |
| About the Artist | |
Following my Post Graduate Diploma (1980), I lived and worked in Italy for 19 years. |
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Amulet Selection Box
2005 |
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| The amulet collection is encased in a domestic-looking many-folding sewing box, on its own plinth, open to view: it contents resonate with magical potential, demonstrating the power of objects to embody the investment of abstract powers: hope, belief, faith. The case draws on domestic tradition, enriching it with a new potency as a self-conscious housing for an extraordinary selection of objects. Amulets are not always chosen by the individual, but may be somehow invested with protective power, either transferred by the giver, on invested by the bearer. They exist in all known cultures, and their significance often derives from morphological echoes of the human body - shoe, cowrie shell, hand, or heart. [Dr. Ruth Richardson]. (Photo - Justin Piperger). |
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P.G.R.
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| Multiplicity is enclosed within outer uniformity, by distortions of scale. Each is protected in a see-through box, echoing the invisible protection amulets are believed to convey to those who carry them. The resonances of these artefacts are sometimes culturally specific, but more often appeal at a deeper level, through a sometimes disquieting vagueness which invites pondering, and excavation of one’s own imaginative lumber room, a process surprisingly pleasurable and regenerative in itself. [Dr. Ruth Richardson]. (Photo - Justin Piperger). |
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Mothers & Masters
2006 |
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| This work concerns reproduction and is inspired by research into reproductive cloning and the possibility that within a few years, scientists will be able to programme human cells without having to rely on human eggs and embryos at all. (Photo - Justin Piperger). |
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Invariably the Adults Sip Nectar
2003 |
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| The phases of stem cell development superimposed on the life history of the Lepidoptera. Silhouette torsos possess an added valency in butterfly wings, suggesting the resonance of soul, creativity, life of the stem-cell. (Photo - Justin Piperger). |
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Magisterium
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| "Magisterium" is a disparate collection of lidded glass bottles and jars of all kinds: tall and narrow, short, round, slender, fat, shapely, functional, hundreds of them, displayed in wonderful array in clusters grouped by height and shape, reflecting light, and all with the most curious contents - a collection of found and made objects reminiscent in its bottled context, of a great library of medicaments of such diversity that it resembles the amalgamated arcane armamentarium of a Chinese medicine practitioner and a medieval apothecary. Yet the modern domesticity of the bottles reminds us too, of the many culinary ingredients which are also medicinal, and the nurturative femininity of much of the wisdom behind the world’s knowledge of healing. And just as in medicine, dangerous materials taken in small doses can be palliative or curative, this accumulation of materials might seem kind or malevolent, merely by the power of thought. [Dr. Ruth Richardson]. (Photo - Justin Piperger). |
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Fertility Dolls Installation
2006 |
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| We are invited to reconsider what it is we consider human, what organic, what manufactured, what magical. The ancient, the primitive and the modern look back at us, in our own two-armed, two legged, two eyed predicament. [Dr. Ruth Richardson]. (Photo - Justin Piperger). |
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Nosce Te Ipsum Installation
2006 |
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| The power of the reliquary and of the altar play on the impetus of thanksgiving: as fundamental to human nature as the quest for medicine or supernatural assistance. The triptych draws upon the very ancient and the now: the silhouette torso echoes classical sculpture, modern media and mass-production in its multiple appearances, yet each - being both hand cut and varicoloured - is much less uniform in character than first appearances suggest. Genderlessness - like Virginia Woolf’s "Orlando" - allows potential to be either/both. Massed ranks are presented in neat rows, their hollowed interiors housing gem-like representations of human body parts. The soundscape is a simply listing, a rich male voice, of all the body parts represented. This piece is a reminder of the sacredness of the body, the multiple parts we each are given, and the fact that many may be bought and sold by international body brokers. Here thanksgiving inverts into disquieting concern for human greed, while reinforcing our appreciation of kinship and vulnerability. [Dr. Ruth Richardson]. (Photo - Justin Piperger). |
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Fertility Dolls
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| Unified, like a museum collection, by means of careful presentation, their disparity is astounding. They are made from the widest range of materials, mostly discarded and found again - from plant roots and flotsam to weathered plastics. They take - naturally or by some deft twist of art - human form. [Dr. Ruth Richardson - M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S. Writer/ Medical Historian]. (Photo - Justin Piperger). |
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Icon 1 (detail)
2007 |
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Icon 2 (detail)
2007 |
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Gods of Healing & Sublime Enchanters
2007 |
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| Installation: Shrine housing 15 terracotta sculptures.
(Photo - Justin Piperger). |
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Gods of Healing & Sublime Enchanters
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Dragons
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Nosce Te Ipsum (Detail)
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| Detail of tripytch - Nosce Te Ipsum Installation.
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Oracle Bones
2007 |
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| Part of "Selection Box" Installation, comprising: 'Amulet Selection Box', 'Oracle Bones', 'Deity Hooks' and 'Sacred Arrows'.
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Fowlman
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| Celebrating the eccentric and eclectic life and work of George Stubbs, “Fowlman” responds to his most ambitious project - “A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and a Common Fowl”.
Created for Liverpool’s “EdgeCentrics” exhibition at The Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre – in response to the theme of Liverpool’s eccentric characters, organised and curated by Jolanta Jagiello during the Liverpool Biennial 2008 and in the year of Liverpool’s European Capital City of Culture 2008. |
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Tigerman
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| Celebrating the eccentric and eclectic life and work of George Stubbs, “Tigerman” responds to his most ambitious project - “A Comparative Anatomical Exposition of the Human Body with that of a Tiger and a Common Fowl”.
Created for Liverpool’s “EdgeCentrics” exhibition at The Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre – in response to the theme of Liverpool’s eccentric characters, organised and curated by Jolanta Jagiello during the Liverpool Biennial 2008 and in the year of Liverpool’s European Capital City of Culture 2008.
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Reliquary of the Broken Heart (in 50 fragments)
2009 |
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| Education and biography | |
| 1974-1981 BA Fine Art (1st Class Hons.), Winchester School of Art and Design. Post Graduate Diploma in Art and Psychopathology (Art Therapy), Hertfordshire College of Art, St. Albans. Head of Art Therapy, Department of Psychiatry, North Manchester General Hospital. 1981-2000 Resided in Italy. 2002 - present Co-founder and Art Director of Euroart Studios and Gallery. NVQ Video Production, Centre for Film & Digital Media, Oxford. Created and curated "Medical Edge", "A Fine Line" & "Coming Out", Euroart Gallery, London. SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - SOLO & GROUP. 2009 “Should the World Break in” - Museum MAN @ Bereznitski Gallery, Kiev. “Summer Exhibitionists” - WW Gallery, London. "Travelling Light" - London/Venice Biennale09. "Reliquaries of Empires Dust" - Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin (Museum MAN). 2008 "Art and Insects", The Cube3 Gallery, University of Plymouth. "EdgeCentrics", Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre, Liverpool (Liverpool Biennial). "Boite en Valise", Pont des Arts, Paris (London Biennale). "Nosce Te Ipsum - In the Merge of Magic, Medicine and Religion", South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire. Solo show. 2007 "Nosce Te Ipsum -tempus fugit", Boiler House, Old Truman Brewery, London. Solo show. 2006 "Nosce Te Ipsum", UH Galleries, Hatfield. Solo show. Arts Council England funded. "Blueprints II", museumMANberlin, Berlin; Liverpool Biennale Independent "Human Technology", Synergy Gallery, London "draw_drawing_2" , The Foundry, London "In Arcadia", Orleans House, The Stable Gallery, London "Four London Biennale Artists", Coningsby Gallery, London. 2005 "Anywhere in the World - David Medalla’s London", ICA, London. 2004 "Love & Sex", Studio 28, London "Six Thousand Chairs", Crystal Palace Park, London. 2003 "F1Rst Out", Euroart Group Show @ Westbourne Studios, London. "corpoREAL", Windsor Arts Centre. Solo show. 2002 "Body Count", Century Gallery, ACAVA, London. Solo show. "F1Rst" Open Studios, Euroart Studios, London. 2001 "Corporate Exhibition", Marks & Spencer Headquarters, London "thirteen", Florence Trust, London "Body Beautiful", 20-21 Visual Art Centre, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. 1977 - 2000 London, Sheffield, Bracknell, Wakefield (Yorkshire Sculpture Park), Turin, Rome, Aquila, Saturnia, Florence, New York, Nice. PUBLICATIONS. SCOPE Irish Medicine in Focus April 2009 [Publisher: M&C Group, Dublin]. University of Hertfordshire Press: “Nosce Te Ipsum” – 2006 Show Catalogue. ISBN I 905 313 42X. Associazione Romana Gallerie D’Arte Moderna, Rome: Spring Exhibition 2000. ARTEin, Venice: Art Magazine (June/July 2000. ISSN 1124-38569). Dictionary of Contemporary Art 1998/99 [Publishers: Alba, Ferrara]. L’Élite - Italian Art Selection. Art catalogue - Edition 1999 [Publishers: L’Élite, Varese]. “Quelli che contano 7” by Ferdinando Anselmetti [Publishers : Marsilio Editori, Venice, 1999]. |
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| Future shows | |
| 2009 “Noise of Art” - Swanfield Yard, London “Is Anybody There” - WW Gallery, London 18 Aug - 17 Sep '09 "Thoroughly Modern Dora" - Willesden Green Library Centre, London. |
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