Clare Peake
Clare's artistic practice takes form as both drawing and small-scale sculpture, exploring the ways in which knowledge and ideas are accumulated and configured. Her work investigates the process of building an idea or an image of something by looking at how it becomes restructured through the process of translating it into a tangible form.
Her work provides the viewer with a partial navigational structure or a point of access to consider how to make tangible the structuring and restructuring of an idea, from conceptualisation to articulation. The viewer is introduced to a finely finessed body of drawings that meditate on pathways and processes of making.
These are coupled with handmade clay sculptures the artist created as ‘diagrams’ for a glassblower. Capitalising on his ability to render her ideas in new forms, she has developed a tangential though interconnected collection of objects that encapsulate her current thought process.
Exhibition: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery 10 August – 6 October 2012
Artist talk: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Friday 24 August
Her work can also be seen in Spatial Drawing at Venn Gallery from 27 July-31 August and in Yonder at PICA from 8 September to 21 October.
