Clare Strand

Gone Astray Portraits by Clare Strand (pictured). Work, Rest, Play features over 400 images by thirty-eight acclaimed photographers and artists, presents a broad range of photographic practices, reflects upon the changing face of British culture over the last 50 years. The Gone Astray Portraits, (2002-3), may appear to faithfully reference the conventions of 19th century street portraiture yet on closer inspection the sitters are not regular street folk but a pre-selected cast, dressed by the photographer, and assigned props. The title, taken from Charles Dickens’ novella Gone Astray, 1853, ruminates on being lost in the city of London and the drama and pretense of the urban street. 

Girl in Two Halves and Aerial Suspension by Clare Strand pictured.

Signs of A Struggle by Clare Strand pictured

75 Indicative Images by Clare Strand pictured.

Flatland/ Spaceland (Black) by Clare Strand . Group show with. Juliana Borinski, Delphine Burtin, Pascal Convert, Marina Gadonneix, Mark Geffriaud, Agnès Geoffray, Isabelle Giovacchini, Nicolas Giraud, Isabelle Le Minh, Mathieu Mercier, Aurélien Mole, Constance Nouvel, Silvana Reggiardo, Clare Strand, Maxime Thieffine#centre photographique d'lle-de France.

My best shot with Karin Andreasson.

209 portfolios. 2 grant winnersJudges, Walter Moser, Director of the photographic collection in the Albertina, Vienna. Dr. Ingomar Lorch, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach Foundation, Essen. Magdalena Kröner, freelance journalist, Düsseldorf. Clare Strand, British artist, Brighton and Florian Ebner, photographic collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen .

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previews at Centre Pomipdou as part of A History of Art, Architecture, Design from the 1980’s until Today. Curated by Christiane Macel. Pictured here with Clement Cheroux senior curator of photography, Centre Pompidou.

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Slippages, ten questions from Clement Cheroux to Clare Strand 

In memory of the lovely and courageous Cathy Edwards. “I’ve always learnt from fashion imagery,” says artist Clare Strand. “I like its freedom to embrace the absurd, and its refusal to provide any answers.” This story invokes Strand’s current fascinations: the Surrealist Movement and the infamous Black Dahlia murder case. The gentle folk-inspired fashion chosen by AnOther’s fashion director Cathy Edwards offsets the macabre faceless figures and hybrid beings floating in space Photography and artwork Clare Strand Styling Cathy Edwards

Let’s look at the facts. A man in a dark suit in a dark alleyway holds a divining rod. A woman stands on a gridded mat, her fingers wired for some kind of monitoring. A girl’s head and arms poke out of one cardboard box while her legs extend from another, like a magician’s trick. A figure shrouded in a black sheet festooned with stars stands on an office desk for what might be a performance or a perverse kind of punishment. 

Clare Strand is an eclectic artist drawing on a broad range of photographic lineages. From forensics to the spiritual, Strand gracefully intertwines the practical and the absurd, constantly questioning photography’s declining evidential capacity. 

Rags (1986-2014) by Clare Strand featured in White Review

The intention of Further Reading is not to position practice in retrospect or to celebrate individual works, but to make an exhibition of overview in totality, concerning the crossovers, conflicts and serendipity generated between process and practice.