clare ruck

Based in central London, I work with assemblage of existing and found objects, clay, film and recovered or remnant materials that I find to hand.  I concentrate primarily on making creative outcomes with the things I have around me.  

My practice looks at and experiments with body and its transitions over immediate or long time. I communicate a personal viewpoint of the jeopardy, courage, and uncertainty inherent in our experience of the process of time. This includes an exploration of ‘redundancy’ as spare resource; left over, unused, still available but often devalued and wasted. Discarded items become redundant, and in my work, I make this permanent. They represent a solid shadow of volume, mass and void; I look at this in my work, bring it to the forefront, and look at it again. By doing so I identify and collect the traces that people leave around them. For me this can be gathered as evidence of the fragility and vulnerability of their plans within time, and what in the end they did or didn’t do.

Making my work is very physical as an activity and I find that exciting. I enjoy discovering outcomes by accident and developing or clarifying my thought process alongside this through research and work. I form a way to embrace anomalies that arise and incorporate unexpectedness into future projects.