Biography of Arts Council England award winner Lorraine Clarke

About the Artist

Following her Post Graduate in Art & Psychopathology, visual artist Lorraine Clarke lived and worked in Italy for 19 years. Returning to the UK, she co-founded Euroart Studios & Gallery in London in 2002. As Art Director, she has created and curated numerous exhibitions including “Medical Edge”, as well as creating and presenting the “1st Euroart Live Festival”.

Lorraine's practice, influenced and informed by anatomy and aspects of medical science, addresses the "human condition", from the tremendous impact of biotechnology to the complexity of the psyche. From large installations to small finely crafted collections, incorporating found and made objects, animation, sound, and (most recently) microtechnology, her work is infused with research into rites and traditions, anthropology, ancient and contemporary medical practices, folklore and belief systems.

She exhibits internationally, is a recipient of funding from the Arts Council England for the Arts and The Juliet Gomperts Trust, and is a published poet. In 2010 her extraordinary book "Fertility Dolls", with foreward by renowned poet, sculptor and performance artist Brian Catling, was published.

Having just completed her MA in Art & Science at Central Saint Martins, she continues to investigate the faith that people invest in objects and the physical relationship of these objects to our bodies.

Education

1974 – 1981

BA Fine Art (1st Class Hons.), Winchester School of Art and Design

Post Graduate Diploma in Art and Psychopathology (Art Therapy), Hertfordshire College of Art, St. Albans

Head of Art Therapy, Department of Psychiatry, North Manchester General Hospital

1981 – 2000

Resided in Italy

2002 – present

Co-founder and Art Director of Euroart Studios, London

NVQ Video Production, Centre for Film & Digital Media, Oxford

MA (distinction) in Art & Science, UAL Central Saint Martins, London - 2016

Selected Exhibitions

Solo and Group

2023/24

"If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 - 2023", Saatchi Gallery, London.

2023

"If Not Now, When? Generations of Women in Sculpture in Britain, 1960 - 2022", The Hepworth Wakefield.

2018
"Memories - There's Always Tomorrow", St Pancras Hospital, London.

2016

"Here Comes the Flood", curated by Dr. Daniel Barnes, Euroart Studios, London.

"Unfolding Realities", MA Art & Science Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London.

2015

"TIAF" (The Independant Art Fair), The Rag Factory, London.

"You're the reason our kids are ugly", The Laundry, London (CSM interim show).

2014

"Out of the Box", No Format Gallery, London.

"Murales per Studio.ra". Studio.ra Gallery, Rome.

"Spectre of Abandonment", Candid Ars Trust, London. Solo show.

2013

"Fifty by Fifty",Nancy Victor Gallery, London.

"The Lindt Big Egg Hunt",London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh.

2012

"Spare Parts", The Rag Factory, London.

"Saluting the Chosen Few", POSK Gallery, London.

"Wearable Art", Seattle.

2011

"Islington Exhibits", 208-209 & 265 Upper St., Islington, London. Solo show.

“Totem Body”, The Crypt Gallery, London.

"11:11", East Gallery, London.

"Fertility Dolls", Body of Art Virtual Gallery, Liverpool St. tube station, London.

"Resting Peacefully", Mausoleum, Nunhead Cemetery, London.

"The Development of Identity", Screeing of animation, Science Museums’ Dana Centre, London.

2010

"Austerity Xmas Bogof", WW Gallery, London.

"Secret Cinema", Screening of animation, Princess Louise Hospital, London.

“Here Lies Art”, London.

“Islington Reel 10”, Screening of animation, London.

“Time”, WW Gallery, London.

“The Equinox Plot”, The Foundry, London.

2009

“Proverbial Christmas”, Shoreditch Town Hall, London.

“The Abattoir Pages”, The Old Abattoir, London.

“Light Night Festival”, Screening of animation, Civic Hall, Leeds.

“A spires Embers”, GOGOLfest, Kiev.

"Noise of Art”, Swanfield Yard, London.

“Storm”, Redvelvetcurtain, Whitechapel Gallery, London.

“Thoroughly Modern Dora”, Willesden Green Library Centre, London.

“What’s the Meaning of Odd”, Screening of animation, Blank Media Collective, Manchester.

“Is Anybody There”, WW Gallery, London.

“Should the World Break in”, Museum MAN @ Bereznitski Gallery Kiev.

“Summer Exhibitionists”, WW Gallery, London.

“ Reliquaries of Empires Dust ”, Museum MAN @ Bereznitski Gallery Berlin.

“Travelling Light”, London (WW Gallery) > Venice Biennale (Fondamenta Bragadin).

2008

“Art and Insects”, The Cube3 Gallery, University of Plymouth.

“EdgeCentrics”, Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre, Liverpool (Liverpool Biennial).

“Boite en Valise”, Pont des Arts, Paris (London Biennale).

“In the Merge of Magic, Medicine & Religion”, South Hill Park, Berks. Solo Show.

2007

“Nosce Te Ipsum – tempus fugit”, Old Truman Brewery, London. Solo Show.

2006

“Nosce Te Ipsum”, Art & Design Gallery, UH Galleries, Hatfield (supported by Arts Council England grant for the arts). Solo Show.

“Four London Biennale Artists”, Coningsby Gallery, London.

“In Arcadia”, Orleans House, The Stable Gallery, London.

“draw_drawing_2”, The Foundry, London.

“Human Technology”, Synergy Gallery, London.

“Blueprints II”, museumMANberlin, Berlin; Liverpool Biennale Independent.

2005

“Anywhere in the World: David Medalla’s London”, ICA, London.

2004

“Six Thousand Chairs”, Crystal Palace Park, London.

“Love & Sex”, Studio 28, London.

2003

“corpoREAL”, Windsor Arts Centre. Solo show.

“F1Rst Out”, Euroart Group Show @ Westbourne Studios, London.

2002

“F1Rst” Open Studios – Euroart Studios, London.

“Body Count”, Century Gallery, London. Solo show.

2001

“Body Beautiful Exhibition”, 20/21 Visual Art Centre, Scunthorpe, North Lincs.

“thirteen”, Florence Trust, London.

“Corporate Exhibition”, Marks & Spencer Headquarters, London.

2000 – 1977

London, Bracknell, Wakefield, Turin, Rome, Aquila, Saturnia, Florence, New York, Nice.