Fertility Dolls

Clarke’s Fertility Dolls are extraordinary. 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 by the artist – from plant roots and flotsam to weathered plastics. They take – naturally or by some deft twist of art – human form. Presenting them to us as a collection, she invites us 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 - Writer/ Medical Historian].