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Summary
Claire Ringrose creates work which enriches
our engagement with the natural world. Looking at ancient settlements and
forgotten memories Claire’s practice is diverse in the use of media ranging
from sculpture to photography, sound recordings, and drawing. There is an
honesty in the use of materials, at times unpretentious and simple, sometimes
outlandish and humorous. She has taken natural found objects and added small
elements to transform them in to a different realm or use. Claire’s work has the
ability to bring the viewer to a social and ethical consciousness connecting
with empathy to the soil and the earth itself.
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Objects for Transformation
A series of light-hearted sculptural objects to help us reconnect to the natural world.
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Fluvium Artifacts
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Fluvium show
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Inspiration
My work is born from the desire to represent intuitive feelings towards the natural world and of the connections this has to early human settlement.
Ideas of forgotten memory and of time are explored through highly ambiguous photographs of moving water as well as by made objects that allude to the river's age old life giving force.
Ideas of forgotten memory and of time are explored through highly ambiguous photographs of moving water as well as by made objects that allude to the river's age old life giving force.
My Final show
I'm creating an installation, using wall and floor, and both the photographs and the objects.
I want the objects to be leaning against the wall, which implies a latency, an action waiting to happen, objects that perhaps have the power to be used in some kind of ritual. I also might include a vitrine of smaller objects.
I've been examining my work really closely, why I am doing what. I want to be unencumbered by debates on form and surface, it's just not an issue in the way I want to work. I trust my own eye and hand, I want the work to be driven by instinct rather than theory or aesthetics.
I want the objects to be leaning against the wall, which implies a latency, an action waiting to happen, objects that perhaps have the power to be used in some kind of ritual. I also might include a vitrine of smaller objects.
I've been examining my work really closely, why I am doing what. I want to be unencumbered by debates on form and surface, it's just not an issue in the way I want to work. I trust my own eye and hand, I want the work to be driven by instinct rather than theory or aesthetics.
Inspiration...
The concept for my work is a mixture of mythology, anthropology, prehistory and fantasy. At the moment I've got a series of immersive photographs, all of objects within or on the surface of water, which are highly ambiguous and perhaps even unsettling. These photographs take us to a state of mind, hopefully bridging a link to our primal selves.
I'm researching into displaying these photographs to fit the ideas of the project and the objects that go with them. My starting point was imagining objects cast off from the river, and the objects, these tools I've made, remind me of figures, members of an imagined community living alongside the river.
I will be making more objects, just to see what comes up. I'm still trying to figure out whether to take an artisan or bricoleur approach to the objects.
I'm researching into displaying these photographs to fit the ideas of the project and the objects that go with them. My starting point was imagining objects cast off from the river, and the objects, these tools I've made, remind me of figures, members of an imagined community living alongside the river.
I will be making more objects, just to see what comes up. I'm still trying to figure out whether to take an artisan or bricoleur approach to the objects.
