Clare Strand

THE COLDER THE WEATHER THE WARMER THE HEARTS “The Colder the Weather the Warmer the Hearts catwalk event is a vehicle to combine both the past and present, within a community setting as well as a conceptual act of physically activating photographic archives in a bold and unique way.” Click link to see film href.li

THE COLDER THE WEATHER THE WARMER THE HEART -Noua Gallery 23rd September - 15th November. Bodo Norway.

A GREY BORING JUMPER AND AN OVER COMPLICATED TOP exhibition, by myself and Steffi Klenz has now travelled to the 2023 Tokyo Biennale in the form of the Japanese, Oshibori .

NEXT/PREVIOUS The Gerald Moore Gallery 2nd-30th September. The Gerald Moore Gallery is pleased to present Next: Previous, a curated by Steven Scott that brings together works from eight artists with practices established in diverse fields. Artists include Andy Bannister, Frederick Bell, Andrew Bick, Peter Downsbrough, Susan Morris, Nicola Rae, Steven Scott, and Clare Strand.

In the context of the exhibition, The Feast and the associated festival programme, we cordially invite you to join us for a special conversation between the English artist Clare Strand and the curator of contemporary art Dr Barbara Scheuermann, Kunstmuseum Bonn.  This event will take place in the grounds of Burg Lede in Bonn, celebrating the opening of Strands’ participatory work, “All that Hoopla”. After the discussion, the artist will operate the fairground stall herself, offering all attendees the enjoyable opportunity to take a chance to win her artwork. 

Skirts showing in Das Fest, Parrotta Contemporary Cologne,5th May- 21st July

Uk-based artist Clare Strand filled a suitcase with selected artefacts spanning her engagement with research and personal collections throughout her 30-year career, and brought them to the NOUA project room. These rarely-seen objects and exhibition souvenirs combined with narrated texts offer a ‘behind the scenes’ look of Strand’s process of making as well as her diverse interests.

At the request of Les Cahiers du musée national d'art moderne, Pompidou, I invited poet, critic and founder of Ubuweb, Kenneth Goldsmith to chat about the acquisition of my recent work, Discrete Channel with Noise. This took place during the Covid lockdown of 2020. Click through to read.

“Music creates a cybernetic circularity as it nourishes the body with vibrations while awaking the mind. Music illuminates the inner darkness of our black boxes. When listening to music, we feel that the separation between man and world disappears; we transcend our skin and our skin transcends us” (1)

In 2020 Clare Strand and Steffi Klenz met at a Private view. Strand commented on Klenz’s over complicated top and in response, Klenz remarked on Strand’s boring grey jumper.

All that Hoopla is an endeavour to decentralise the dynamics of conservative and hierarchical art market structures. It also highlights the variables of chance, luck, loss, fluke, risk and the vagaries of fortune, all of which are the central themes of Strand’s ongoing practice.

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‘To the Edge of Time’ illustrates the congruence of modern and contemporary works of art and scientific objects, depicting the key stages of the Big Bang theory and modern cosmology’s development. It sheds light on concepts such as space, time, dimensions, geometry, and the size of the universe.

“Between 1886 and 1903 booth surveyed the life and labour of the people in London, moving from street to street and interviewing the residents. The Booth study resulted in, amongst other things, colour-coded maps of London ranging from yellow to black, with blues, pinks and reds in-between.”