About
I am a practice-based researcher engaged in landscape and site-specificity, incorporating film, music composition, photography, ceramics, installation and creative writing. I am interested in how landscapes are receivers, repositories and translators of knowledge systems, histories and stories. In particular, the confluence of colonial, geological, ecological and maternal themes are central to my work. My practice engages with an auto-ethnographic methodology that explores how we make meaning in the landscape, and how dwelling and creative practice can reveal such knowledge, whereby the landscape itself can be a teacher or performer, rather than a backdrop to teaching or agency. The theoretical framework of my research draws from Anthropology, Geology, Phenomenology, Ecofeminism and Maternal theory.
I have been awarded the WRoCAH scholarship (Arts & Humanities Research Council UK) for my practice-based PhD project, 'Mothering Beyond the Flesh: gardens and the making of meaning in landscapes of the Anthropocene'. My position of mother and artist is used to both presuppose and question a theory of maternal agency in the Anthropogenic landscape, using specific gardens as case studies within the UNESCO biosphere island of Lanzarote. This work involves a combination of fieldwork, including oral history projects, embedded creative practice and reflective processing of the site; repositioning and translating knowledge generated by being in the landscape through an auto-ethnographic and creative methodology.
The aim of my work is to both illuminate the historical roots of our ecological crisis and question the role of maternal agency within the wider realm of landscape theory.
Clare Carter
clarecarter.artist@gmail.com
CV
2023-2027: PhD candidate at The School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds.
2022: MA Fine Art - University of Leeds.
2003: BA(Hons) Fine Art - University of Huddersfield.
Publications
CePRA Journal, issue #3. https://cepra.leeds.ac.uk/cepra-journal/journal-issue-3/issue-3-clare-carter-osborne/
CePRA Journal is an online, open access, peer-reviewed journal for practice research published by the Centre for Practice Research in the Arts at the University of Leeds, UK.
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2024: 'Our Wider Flesh', project space, FAHACS, University of Leeds, UK.
2023: 'Maternal Stratum', The Art House, Wakefield.
2022: 'Sobremesa', University of Leeds, UK.
2020: 'Archipelago', Calver Gallery, Thornton, UK.
2009: ‘Wandering Garden’, South Square Gallery, Thornton, UK.
2008: ‘Room with a View’, Nordisk Kunst Plattform Gallery, Brusand, Norway.
‘Northern Caves’, Stasjon K Gallery, Sandnes, Norway.
2006: ‘Documents & Mirrors’, Upernavik Museum, Upernavik, Northwest Greenland
Group
2023: 'Our Climate, Our Crisis', The Point Gallery, Doncaster.
2023: 'Source', Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds.
2022: 'Hidden' MA Fine Art exhibition, FAHACS, University of Leeds, UK.
2022: 'Safe in Each Other's Shadow' Project Space, FAHACS, University of Leeds, UK.
2021: ‘Rui d’art exhibition’ Riba Roja d’Ebre, Spain
2020: ‘Newsprint’ Three Works Gallery, Scarborough, UK
2020: Miniprint Internacional Cantabria, Santander, Spain
2019: ‘Festival de Arte de Lanzarote’ Casa de Cultura & Sala Del Quirofano, Arrecife, Lanzarote
2009: ‘Artomata’ Westgate Studios, Wakefied and LS6 Cafe artspace, Hyde Park, Leeds, UK
2008: ‘Peripheral Artists present: North by Northwest’ Arts@Trinity and Leeds Design & Innovation Centre, Leeds, UK
2007: 'Palm Art Award Exhibition 2007’ Art Domain Gallery, Leipzig, Germany.
'Ela, Ela- An Exhibition of International Artists working in Cyprus’ La Viande Gallery, Shoreditch, London, UK
‘The Reykjavik Winter Lights Festival’ SIM Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Residencies
2022: Rui d’art, Riba Roja d’Ebre, Spain (Sep-Oct)
2008: AIR Toos Neger, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (August)
Instituto Rural de Arte, Castilla La Mancha, Spain (June - July)
AIR Stasjon K Studios, Sandnes kommune, Sandnes, Norway (January - March)
2007: Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Pafos, Cyprus (April - July)
SIM- The Icelandic Association of Visual Artists, Reykjavik, Iceland (February)
2006: Upernavik Museum, Upernavik, Greenland (September - December)
Awards
2023: WRoCAH scholarship and studentship (Arts & Humanities Research Council UK) for PhD: Mothering Beyond the Flesh: gardens and the making of meaning in landscapes of the Anthropocene.
2022: Arts Council England - Develop Your Creative Practice grant. Researching local materials in the landscape for developing printmaking and alternative photographic techniques.
2008: Scholarship from Sandnes Kommune for 3 month residency at Stasjon K Studios, Norway.
2006: Arts Council England grant for 3 month residency at Upernavik Museum, Upernavik, Greenland
2007: Leonard Da Vinci grant (Grampus Heritage Fund) for 6 week residency at Cyprus College of Art.
Albums (written, performed and produced)
Firewall & Silencio (2017)
The Last Winter (2015)
Wovo (2015)
Terrafidella (2014)
Press
‘Recording in the Dark’ - Huffington Post Interview with Clare Carter, 2013.