Claire French
she/her
Rupture
My recent work explores the human psyche as a fragmented landscape. The notion of a psyche that is ruptured with a language that is unfamiliar. The framework for communication is broken, the building blocks of the everyday are misplaced. There is a sense of something recognisable but remains unreadable. A landscape where objects stop behaving as expected and the familiar becomes unfamiliar.
The sculptural ceramic pieces in particular highlight the fragmented nature of incomplete memory. An incompleteness that forges a new history, a new language. A language of notation and grids, lines and marks.
The slow meditative pace of hand building with clay allows for a deep involvement in the narrative of the pieces. The link between form and emotion becomes empowering. The pieces allow for a range of emotional responses rather than programmed interpretations.
Vessel with Notation and Wedge, stoneware, 15 x 22 x 22 cm.
Writing in the Form of a Bowl, stoneware, 7 x 19 x 23 cm.
Sisphsus, stoneware, 26 x 20 x 10 cm.
Between Unity and Rupture, stoneware with found brick, 11 x 8 x 8 cm.
Asemic Orb, stoneware with text, 8 x 9 x 7.5 cm.
Asemic Letter, pencil, ink, acrylic on paper, 21 x 29 cm.
Rupture, tea bags with text sewn on to Indian paper, 15 x 21.0 cm.
I Hear You, poem on coffee stained paper, 15 x 21 cm.
Sculptural Form with Notation, 23 X 23 cm.
After Kandinsky, Pate de Verre, The Shape of Language, 12 x 8.5 cm.
Research
The Language of Mapping, contours ink, gel pen, pencil, coffee.
The Language of Grids, chalk, charcoal.
The Language of Grids, rubbing charcoal and watercolour.
Language of Grids, charcoal rubbing, chalk and acrylic.
A Different Language, charcoal, chalk, ink and tape.