Clare Churchouse is a New York-based artist originally from the UK. She received a B.A. visual arts, Lancaster University (UK), an M.F.A. art, Reading University (UK), and an M.S. data visualization from Parsons School of Design.
She has participated in the International Studio and Curatorial Program, NYC; Triangle Workshop, NYC; Vermont Studio Center; and Art Omi, NY; was a Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) 2017 participant and a recipient of a Painting Space 122 Project Studio, NYC, 2020-2022.
Her work has been exhibited at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University; the ISE Foundation, NYC; Art in General, NYC; NYU’s Kimmel Windows, NYC; PS122 Gallery, NYC; Kapp Kapp, NYC; Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; Clove 2, London; and Berlin’s Deutscher Kunstlerbund eV.
She is the recipient of a London Arts Board Artists Award, Birmingham University’s Barber Institute of Fine Arts Revision Award, a John Anson Kittredge Educational Award, and a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Drawing 2023.
Statement
I make wall-based assemblages that investigate drawing’s relationship to sculptural forms and to materials occupying space. These works create a quasi-spatial drawing environment where drawing exists as a tableaux having depth and material heft. They resemble paintings whose separate elements assume quasi-illusionistic outlines and perspectival spaces. The works argue for drawing as sculptural medium in restricted space.
I explore how 3D space is represented visually. Within half-drawn outlines, materials are inserted and give physical instantiation to diagrams, drawn objects and abstract marks.
I utilize quotidian materials that read as both a collection of material items on a plane and allude to systems of meaning traditionally associated with circuit boards, canvas stretchers and maps. The incomplete representations hint at narratives tied to impermanence.
I am interested in representations ranging from computer-driven iterations to archival maps and diagrams that depict textures, sites and environmental change.