
Clare Dudeney
Water Fingers, 2021
woven cotton
30 x 22 cm (unframed)
60 x 40 cm (framed)
60 x 40 cm (framed)
£750 + Postage £20 UK, £50 international
Clare's works capture the subjective experience of being through relationships of colour and shape. Tracing thoughts, memories and emotions to create abstract landscapes with the unexpectedness of encounters with nature. Weaving is a meditative process, like taking a walk with threads, there’s no predetermined plan. She allows the woven paintings to build incrementally, accidents to redirect the pattern. Mixing many fine yarns to create soft transitions, like translucent watercolours. The fragmented forms revealed through this process, unintentionally reflect tender past observations of rippling water, bark and stones.
Clare is an interdisciplinary artist based in London. She received an MA in Fine Art from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2018 (Distinction). She changed career to be an artist in 2014, after an inspirational trip to Antarctica, where she has returned as an artist-in-residence. She has worked for 15 years in climate change advocacy.