https://clarebottomley.co.uk Clare Bottomley Artist Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:46:59 +0000 https://clarebottomley.co.uk en https://clarebottomley.co.uk/Home-1 Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:46:57 +0000 Clare Bottomley Artist https://clarebottomley.co.uk/Home-1 CLARE BOTTOMLEY ARTIST -/- RESEARCHER -/- EDUCATOR ︎︎︎ https://clarebottomley.co.uk/you-don-t-have-to-emerge-from-nothing Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:46:58 +0000 Clare Bottomley Artist https://clarebottomley.co.uk/you-don-t-have-to-emerge-from-nothing you don’t have to emerge from nothingIn You Don’t Have to Emerge from Nothing, I collaborated with my queer friends to re-enact classical sculptures through photogrammetry, creating 3D scans, seeking to reimagine these works, which are at the core of Western representational norms, through a post-normal lens. The reinterpreted sculptures are presented as holograms to support the re-enactments intertwining temporal spaces. The hologram itself embodies a paradoxical presence—both here and not quite, like a lingering memory suspended in ephemerality, pointing toward sci-fi futures yet to be realized https://clarebottomley.co.uk/playing_Nykyaika Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:46:58 +0000 Clare Bottomley Artist https://clarebottomley.co.uk/playing_Nykyaika PLAY WITH THE GODS NYKYAIKA PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER TAMPERE 2024 WINTER https://clarebottomley.co.uk/Life-in-Marble Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:46:58 +0000 Clare Bottomley Artist https://clarebottomley.co.uk/Life-in-Marble Life in MarbleLife in Marble is a photographic exhibition exploring the role the of classical antiquity in configuring the notion of Whiteness and problematise the adoration of white marble within western culture. Within this series I re-enacted the works of Italian Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova by re-imagining the myself as each sculpture. Exploiting my own fat queer body with its physical limitations, and flawed characteristics and mimicking the seductive shimmer of marble with a cheap polyester body suit. In my re-telling of Canova faultless sculptures, I want to deconstruct the fantasy of Whiteness with its perfected moralities and idolised beauty standards which these and similar marble sculptures represent I want the realism of my own body to create a sensitive re-reading of these sculpture as fallible and injudicious and not above scrutiny, and to raise questions about the motivations behind placing them at the centre of our national collections. https://clarebottomley.co.uk/HOW-TO-COMM Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:46:59 +0000 Clare Bottomley Artist https://clarebottomley.co.uk/HOW-TO-COMM HOW TO COMUNICATE AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS COLLABORATION WITH JASMINE FÄRLING Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki 2024 https://clarebottomley.co.uk/Page-6 Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:46:59 +0000 Clare Bottomley Artist https://clarebottomley.co.uk/Page-6 INNUMERABLE MESSIAHSIn 2013 I spent four four months trying to live like Jesus, after coming across a Jesus related weight loss plan online. I decided to go one step further, I dressed like Jesus, eat like Jesus, and tried to complete Jesus related tasks such as walking on water and washing feet. I tried to be as close to the character of the Son of God as possible, but I fell short of making miracles. Instead of walking on water I plunged into ponds, instead of creating a feeling of holiness by washing peoples feet, I pretty sure it made them uncomfortable. https://clarebottomley.co.uk/Information Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:46:59 +0000 Clare Bottomley Artist https://clarebottomley.co.uk/Information Clare Bottomley is an artist, educator, and early-career researcher based in Helsinki, Finland. She is a Doctoral Researcher at Aalto University, exploring re-enactment as a creative method for re-examining past representations in photography, research, and Artistic Research. She also lectures at Falmouth University, UK, within the Institute of Photography. Her work has been exhibited across the UK and internationally, including the Harvard Gallery touring exhibition Act of Creation: Art and Motherhood, currently on display at Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK clarebottomley@live.co.uk   https://clarebottomley.co.uk/HERMIONE Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:35:31 +0000 Clare Bottomley Artist https://clarebottomley.co.uk/HERMIONE BIRTH OF THE IMAGE COLLABORATION WITH HERMIONE WILTSHIRE...and another thing... included in Act of Creation Art and Motherhood Hayward Touring exhibition Curated by Hettie Judah Exhibted in multiple venues across UK and Ireland 2024 -2027