Hannah Clarkson

Pataphysics. The science of those things which are beyond the schemata of Science, those bizarre inhabitants of the everyday which through art are transformed, become adventurers, access that special part of the imagination glowing with the aura of that which you have seen before, but has never before been seen. Materiality, the poetics of juxtaposition, the transmutable memory of objects and forms. How a surface can change over time and an object can take on new meaning in the meeting of others both found and made.

My practice revolves, paradoxically, around an axis of ambiguity and the perilous excitement of not being quite sure, on the precipice of uncertainty which keeps art alive, keeps its evolution in motion. My work embodies a sense of its own untold narrative, of secrets which cannot be described in words yet hang heavy in their visual qualities and the phenomenological experience of shared space between sculpture and viewer.

2010-13 The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University
BFA Fine Art - First-Class
2009-10 Cambridge Regional College
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design – Distinction
2007-09 Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge
A-levels in Art, English, French and Italian – A,A,A,A
2001-07 The Netherhall School, Cambridge
GCSEs in English Lit., English Lang., Mathematics, French, German, Science Double Award, Art, History – A* A* A* A* A* AA A B

2013 (Jun) The Ruskin Degree Show 2013, The Old Powerstation, Oxford.
2013 (Feb) Is This It, solo exhibition at the Dolphin Gallery, St John’s College, Oxford.
2013 (Feb) Turner Prize Party, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
2013 (Jan) Solo exhibition in The Mezzanine, Oxford.
2012 (Mar) Pigeon Place group exhibition, Oxford.
2012 (Jan) Installation in Worcester College Chapel, Oxford.
2011 (June) Ruskin First Year Show, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
2011 (May) Ruskin Shorts at Modern Art Oxford.
2011 (Feb) Parapraxis, Freud Restaurant & Bar, Oxford.
2010 (Nov) A Collection of Drawings in Steel, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford.
2010 (Oct) Reminiscence. Screening of short film at Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford, Oct 2010.
2010 (June-Nov) Installation at CRC.
2010 CRC Foundation Show, Cambridge.
2009-10 Ongoing display of painting, Savilles Estate Agents, Cambridge.
2009 Hills Road A-level Show, Cambridge.