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Emily Clark (2005)
In (visible) Passed Discretion and Subtle Acts of Terrorism among the Worried Well
Artists use Medical Imaging Technologies, What of I.T.?
Emily Clark is an artist, curator and writer originally from the U.K and currently based in New Zealand pursuing a PhD in Fine Art. Prior to graduating from CCA, Emily exhibited extensively in the UK. Shows included many collaborations and group shows predominantly in the South West of England and Wales, including "table" (2001) a public event, group exhibition/action as 'Year of the Artist' (Bristol, UK) curated by Georgian artist Mamuka Japaridze and British artists Anthea Nicholson and Bruce Allen. Emily was also the co-founder of Fat Stoogie Gallery in Bristol in the '90's and exhibited the work of new and emerging artists, including such shows as “Phantom Twin” by Rebecca Stevenson and co-curated “Chrome County” with Rachel Weeks and Elliot Lessing at the Pawnbroker’s Gallery in San Francisco.
Receiving a BA in Art and Aesthetics at UWIC (University of Wales Institute in Cardiff) in 2002, Emily's practice deviated (perhaps temporarily) from making to writing about making and writing about others' makings. Published writing includes articles in the Houston based magazine Art Lies (#43 and #44) and San Francisco's on-line magazine to be found at http://www.meshsf.org. There is also an essay on the work of Bay Area Artist and alumni of CCA Claudia Tennyson for the first edition of the catalogue for San Francisco's contemporary art gallery Southern Exposure.
Consistently preoccupied by the subject being habitually and strategically involved inducing the process which could be looked on as ’the making and the mending’, Emily's work could be said to be concentrating on opening up old wounds in an effort to find some way to come to terms with the seemingly un-negotiable status of the 'institutional'. Travelling broadly has opened up the possibilities of other ways of looking and at others in different ways. Having for the first time recently visited Tbilisi in Georgia and Yerevan in Armenia to re-visit old friends and make new ones the next move has been to buy land in Georgia as part of a collaboration of British and Georgian artists and makers with a view to living and working on the land within the decade.
Pursuing a PhD in Fine Art at Wellington University in New Zealand as one of the first art institutions that offers a multi-disciplinary course offering places to curators, artists, writers, designers and art historians, allows the opportunity for further work started in the Masters Thesis which engages in a historical and contemporary way in the complex world of anatomical imagery that has produced some of the world's most scandalous, monstrous and treasured works of art and that of the anatomical body as used by contemporary makers, designers, scholars and educators in both the art and clinical medical fields. “Projections of Pathology” became a recurring leitmotif within the Master’s Thesis and will be tackled again with a project to curate a short-film festival for 2007 focusing on the subject of artists using the subject of the anatomy as an idiom. For the next few years, Emily will be in between Georgia planting apple trees among other things, the libraries of Armenia where the first medical images of dissections are in print and housed, and where it is said the first medical images of the anatomy were made and used as educational and artistic tools within science, medicine and the arts and New Zealand, but can always be reached on e-mail at emilclar@yahoo.co.uk.
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