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CLARE STRAND SPRING NEWSLETTER 

SNAKE
28 April - 17 June 2017
Belfast Exposed

“O snake, you are an argument for poetry.” 
Margaret Atwood. 1983.

Belfast Exposed are delighted to present Snake by Clare Strand, a new body of work based on a selection of images sourced from the artist’s extensive personal archive, some of which was recently published as Girl Plays with Snake by MACK. Using the written stories on the back of the collected press images and entering them on to online automatic poetry generators, Strand has created her own poetic compositions, which are then boldly screen-printed over the top of the snake women. The result is an overt and graphic interplay between text and image. Alongside the framed works, another automatic poetry generator, constructed for this exhibition, is projected onto the walls of the gallery, creating new random arrangements of Strand’s poems. The automatic text is printed out as a snaking ticker tape for the audience to tear off and take away. further info and images click here.

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GIRL PLAYS WITH SNAKE: BOOK SIGNING WITH MACK
18 May 2017 - 17.00 - 17.30

Photo-London, Somerset House, Strand, London


Clare Strand will be signing copies of her new book, Girl Plays with Snake, published by MACK. 

Read more about the book:

Funny and Eerie Vintage Images of Women Handling Snakes , New York Times by Hattie Judah

Charming, Financial Times
 
 
RUSE: THE ARTFULLNESS OF DECEIT 

Until 19 May 2017
The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art.



This new exhibition curated by Dr Steven Gartside includes work by artists Zoe Beloff, Laurent Grasso, Bridget Smith, Clare Strand and Suzanne Treister


As television has become saturated with its own constructed take on ‘reality’ and news media has become more deeply embroiled in the question of what authenticity might actually mean - the exhibition takes time to explore some of the grey areas between reality and illusion.

 
AT HOME SHE'S A TOURIST
19 - 21 MAY 2017
Launch night, 19 May, 18.00 till late


Copeland Gallery, Peckham London

Artists include: Emma Bäcklund, Mette Bersang, Julie Boserup, Jonny Briggs, Julie Cockburn, Gabby Laurent & Dominic Bell, Louise Oates, Eva Stenram, Clare Strand, Dominic Till, Tereza Zelenkova

At Home She’s a Tourist will shine a spotlight upon an exciting mix of contemporary photographic artists who are negotiating the domestic space in inventive ways


Part of Peckham24 festival
 
I WANT! I WANT! ART AND TECHNOLOGY
Until 1 October 2017
Arts Council collection exhibition at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery



Artists Include: Rachel Maclean, Julian Opie, Ed Atkins, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Toby Ziegler, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead,   Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Michael Fullerton, Dryden Goodwin,  Marcus Coates, Clare Strand, Ryan Gander, Edwin Li, Stefan Gec, Daria Martin, Shezad Dawood, Fiona Rae, Selmani, and William Blake.


The title is inspired by ‘I Want! I Want!’, an etching created by the artist William Blake over two hundred years ago. It depicts a tiny figure standing before a celestial ladder that leads up to the crescent moon. The image acts as a metaphor for humankind’s ability to dream and turn ideas into reality.





 

 


RECENT EXHIBITIONS
META-MATTER
Until 22 April 2017
Karst Gallery, Plymouth.


Curated by Faye Dowling artists on display included Clare Strand, Sara Vanderbeek, United Visual Artists, Sookoon Ang, Anouk Kruithof, Serhei Sviatchenko, Paternity.


META-MATTER presents seven international artists whose work explores new perspectives on our connectivity with the world around us. Fusing art and science, physics and intuition, their work seeks to capture and articulate the untouchable forces which drive and shape our sensory experience of the earth and skies around us.
 
MEN ONLY TOWER
ADDA Art Fair, New York
March 2017

The soft- core porn British 'Men Only Magazine' was founded in 1935 with the editorial statement 'We don't want women readers. We won't have women readers..' The 68 Men Only magazines ( from the Clare Strand Archive) mirror the number of floors that Trump claims make up his NY tower. The actual number of floors is 58, but that is only the truth, so... Inside the magazines are 20 secreted images of resistance in black envelopes

Men Only Tower by Clare Strand debuted at the ADAA Art Fair in New York on the Yossi Millo booth alongside work by Marco Breuer.
SELECTED REVIEWS / ESSAYS / INTERVIEWS

Camilla BrownThe surreal in the work of Clare Strand. Photo monitor
Hattie Judah Funny and Eerie Vintage Images of Women Handling Snakes , New York Times 
Charming, Financial Times
Review by .
Adam Bell  - PhotoEye.

Forthcoming Archivo Magazine Guest Artist: The Photographic Practice as a Shapeshifting Puzzle, illustrated Interview with Ana Teresa VicenteElephant Magazine, You Get was you Get, Interview with Duncan Wooldridge. Fotografo Magazine, Limits of the Possible and the Impossible, illustrated article.
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For further information please contact clare@macdonaldstrand.co.uk






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