Scarlett Carlos Clarke

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Scarlett Carlos Clarke
Born1992 (age 31–32)
London, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationPhotographer
Years active2014–present
Websitescarlettcarlosclarke.com

Scarlett Carlos Clarke (born 1992) is a British photographer and artist based in London.

Early life[edit]

Carlos Clarke was born in London on January 9, 1992, the daughter of British-Irish photographer Bob Carlos Clarke.[1]

Career[edit]

Her debut solo exhibition The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer's Night, was at Cob Gallery in July 2021.[2] Combining photography, sculpture and video, the exhibition was said by Hannah Abel-Hirsch in The British Journal of Photography to "engender a visceral feeling tied to the experience of domesticity. That simultaneous sense of comfort and claustrophobia, which can intensify after becoming a parent."[3] Molly Cranston wrote in The Editorial Magazine that "The images themselves are lush and painterly, Clarke handles dramatic chiaroscuro like a renaissance painter, imbuing her photos with a sense of history and cinema, but the buzz-blue tones and household props (Daz detergent, Irn-Bru, Pampers) plant her subjects resolutely in contemporary Britain."[4] Nick Waplington has compared them to the works of painters Edward Hopper and Grant Wood.[5]

She is the youngest photographer to have a photograph acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London.[6]

Group exhibitions[edit]

  • 2015: Take! Eat!, Diane Chire and Mc Llamas, St Marylebone Parish Church, London[7][better source needed]
  • 2016: New Femininity # 1, curated by GIRLS, Blender Studio, Berlin[7]
  • 2017: A Story the World Needs to See, Berlin Feminist Film Week, Berlin[7]
  • 2018: New Femininity # 2, Curated by GIRLS, Mutuo Galeria, Barcelona[7]
  • 2018: Pillow talk, Curated by Antonia Marsh, Palm Tree Gallery, London[7]
  • 2019: New Femininity # 3, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam[7]

Collections[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Cob Gallery : Scarlett Carlos Clarke : The Smell of Calpol on A Warm Summer's Night". The Eye of Photography. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  2. ^ Allione, Pauline (August 2021). "La vie de femmes enceintes en confinement documentée dans une série photo suffocante". Arts Konbini. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  3. ^ Abel-Hirsch, Hannah (July 2021). "Scarlett Carlos Clarke's sickly sweet vision of domesticity". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  4. ^ Cranston, Molly (August 2021). "Scarlett Carlos Clarke". Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  5. ^ Dinsdale, Emily (9 July 2021). "Scarlett Carlos Clarke captures lockdown motherhood in surreal imagery". Dazed. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  6. ^ Shadbolt, George (19 May 2011). "The British Journal of Photography". The British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  7. ^ a b c d e f "Scarlett Carlos Clarke". Cob Gallery. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  8. ^ "Scarlett Carlos Clarke - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 14 February 2022.

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