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Andrea Clarke
- Course BA (Hons) Glass and Ceramics
- ceramictides@gmail.com
- http://ceramictideswixsite.com/ceramictides
"I am a Birmingham/Cornwall based contemporary artist working in the mediums of ceramics, glass, photography, and paint. My work communicates the perpetual flux of the Atlantic Cornwall coastline. My creative approach is expressionistic, spontaneous, and visceral. It captures the raw energy and alludes to emotional response and a sense of place. My aim is to lesson an endemic disconnect with the natural environment and encourage a conversation centred around current issues of environmental crisis, the questioning of an individual’s connection with the natural world and the responsibility to protect the planet we rely on for future survival. Study during time spent at the University of Wolverhampton on a Glass and Ceramics BA course has led to the development of a body of sculptural ceramic vessels, large-scale mixed media paintings and video that explore the eidetic, emotional response to landscape. In 2017, a series of seascape photographs were exhibited at the Reclaim Photography Festival and my photographs recording the Black Country are part of a community sculpture. Careers in science testing, research, freelance photography, and education have informed my practice of experimenting with the materiality of clay and led to a desire to facilitate students to create work for well-being, alongside my independent practice."
Through my work, I aim to express something of the spirit, light, and sensory experience of exploring the wild Cornish coastline. I study the changing interstices between water and land. This sublime, edge-land evokes an alluring, shape-shifting environment that exhilarates, captivates, and instils fear. There is a mystery to the quality of light, deep waters, and rugged geology of this ancient, post-industrial landscape; it is a place of weather that blows in and out from storms to stillness. In response to walking in this landscape, I am driven to create dynamic, multi-sensory work through the mediums of photography, cinematography, painting, sculptural ceramics, and glass. I work in an expressive, gestural, and instinctive manner; mark making, excavating, building-up, layering surface and patina.
My portfolio
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Fine Art, Glass and Ceramics
Andrea Clarke / Emily Jane Gloss / Fiona Moore / Hannah Rollason / Joshua Mirabueno / Kia May Page / Konstantinos Valkanos / Lisa Edwards / Sarah Hannah Pugh / Susan Poole / Tamar (Nikki) Palmer / William Mistouflet
Wolverhampton School of Art MA Show 2021
Friday 17th September – Sunday 3rd October: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1DU
MA Design and Applied Arts / MA Digital And Visual Communications
Friday 1st – Sunday 31st October: The New Art Gallery Walsall, Gallery Sq, Walsall WS2 8LG
MA Fine Art And / MA Art and Design by Research
it is a great pleasure that we are once again partnering with Wolverhampton Art Gallery and the New Art Gallery Walsall in hosting our MA Degree Shows.
British Art Show 9
22 January - 10 April 2022
We are delighted to announce that the Wolverhampton School of Art has been selected as one of the venues for the prestigious British Art Show 9! In what is a major boost and sign of recognition for arts and culture in Wolverhampton, we are proud to be hosting this prestigious touring exhibition in January 2022.
FEINART Lecture Series
The FEINART LECTURE SERIES will discuss the role, impact, and theoretical implications of socially engaged art. This series of public talks is organized by the Innovative Training Network FEINART (The Future of European Independent Art Spaces in a Period of Socially Engaged Art) jointly led by the Universities of Wolverhampton (coordinator), Zeppelin University (direction of the training programme) University Iceland, and University of Edinburgh.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 860306
