Niamh Clarke

Niamh Clarke is a BA Hons Fine Art graduate from Ulster University 2019 and is based at QSS studios Belfast. She is a co-founder and member of the collaborative drawing group The Drawing Journal.

Clarke’s practice is predominantly drawing, but also includes written prose, watercolours and super 8 video. Her drawing practice reflects an interest in memory and temporality. Exploring the relationship between photography and drawing, a focus is placed on the embodied presence of gesture and materialisation through re-description of found and personal photographs.

Containing personal narratives and references that draw inspiration from archival materials embracing subconsciousness, stream of consciousness, embodied practice and materiality, images are used intuitively to create an implied narrative, to materialise thought, bodily references or emotion. Influenced by Virginia Woolf’s phenomenological and embodied prose and the conflation of nature and the human condition, landscape and natural form is dominant.