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Maureen Clark

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About the member

Maureen Clark is an emerging visual artist based in Cork, Ireland. She graduated from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2024 with a BA (hons) in Contemporary Applied Art.  She primarily works with kiln cast glass and handmade paper, combining new technologies with the traditional processes of screen print, drawing and photography.

Through a sensitive and experimental approach, Clark combines the hand drawn mark and photographic image with the precision of laser etching referencing the erosion marks created over time on the rocks surface. Clark questions her connection to the land through photography and drawing creating layered screen prints on paper and in kiln cast glass, evoking layers of time hidden within rocks and the hidden connection to the past.

Awards include Graduate Glass Residency in Crawford College of Art and Design, Inaugural Benchspace Cork Graduate Award, National Sculpture Factory Graduate Residency Award. Exhibitions include Cork Printmakers Crawford College of Art Year 3 Group exhibition 2023, Make Symposium exhibition 2024, MTU Arts Office Steam Exhibition award 2024.

Education
  • MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Cork, BA (1st Class HONS) Degree in Contemporary Applied Arts,  2021-2024
  • Coláiste Stiofain Naofa, Tramore Road, Cork. Art 2, Distinction, 2020-21                                                                                    Art 1, Distinction, 2020-21                                                                                                      
  • BA (2.2 HONS) Degree in Business Studies, Recreation and Leisure Management    2000-2004
Exhibitions
  • 2024 Made by Hands, LHQ Gallery, Winter Exhibition.
  • 2024 Sense, MTU Steam Exhibition, James Barry Exhibition Centre.
  • 2024 MTU Graduate Degree Show.
  • 2024 Make Symposium Exhibition.
  • 2023 ‘To the power of _____’, Cork Printmakers
Residency
  • 2024 National Sculpture Factory/MTU CCAD Contemporary Applied Art Graduate Award.
  • 2024 Inaugural Benchspace Graduate Residency
  • 2024 MTU Crawford College of Art and Design GLASS residency 2024/2025

Maureen
Clark

“Time could happen without rocks, but not the other way around. However, time vanishes, while rocks persist.” [i]

My research aspires to interpret marks from nature, formed , created and built up over time, mimicking the balance between nature and time.

Erosion marks on the rock’s surface and within, inform my drawings I create, by balancing marks made by hand and by laser. Hand drawn marks etched by a laser marking system, on shoji paper, much like nature’s marks on the rock’s surface.

Through the mediums of photography, drawing and screen-print, I aim to map time. Each rock has a story to tell. To suggest the layers of time trapped within rocks, I examine the layering of imagery in kiln cast glass and explore colour, opacity, pattern and transparency of image.

[i] Bjornerud. Marica, Timefulness, Oxfordshire, Princeton University Press, 2018.

 

Maureen Clark
Maureen Clark
Maureen Clark
Maureen Clark