Hannah Clarkson

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Ireland, Sweden, United Kingdom (residence), United Kingdom (citizenship)
research interests: narrativity, care, shelter, artistic research, Sculpture, poetry, empathy, Medical Humanities
affiliation: Royal College of Art London, Royal Institute of Art Stockholm
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Artist, Curator and Writer with over ten years of experience making and exhibiting art; and writing, publishing, editing and teaching creative writing, in forms as diverse as poetry; short stories; academic essays; book, film and exhibition reviews; creative non-fiction; and marketing copy. Excellent communication and writing skills, and a lifelong passion for art, words and stories. Trained and active as a visual artist, curator and educator, with exhibitions worldwide.

 

In a practice-based PhD at the Royal College of Art in London, my research focuses on shelter and its various synonyms relating to health, home, loneliness and otherness, exploring how stories can invoke empathy through their expression of physical, emotional or relational needs. Investigating relationships between visual, written and spoken language and their relative potential for storytelling, I engage methodologies within creative writing and visual art by which to share stories of struggle and hope.

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  • Raising the Voice: Sculptural and Spoken Narratives from the Flat Sheet (2021) author(s): Hannah Clarkson published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    This exposition explores ideas of narrative and storytelling through sculptures and texts raised from a flat sheet, a kind of visual and spoken poetry which is both particular and multiple. In this paper, the key area of investigation will be the relationship between sculptural and spoken narratives in my practice. This is engaged with in four main areas: • The flat sheet and the fold as sites for storytelling • Multiplicities inherent to storytelling • Architecturality and the space between bodies and buildings • Words, text and the voice, and their relationship to sculpture I explore the role of the architectural in the space between sculptural and spoken narratives, both of which are forms that begin with a flat sheet. The research also looks at how one might write about art in order to expand understanding but not reduce it to one meaning, writing around or through objects so as to leave gaps for the imagination and other narratives. The importance of the voice in the telling of these narratives is investigated, as well as the relationship between bodies and buildings.
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