BA (Hons) Fine Art: Sculpture
www.kirstyclarke.com Through the separation of the mind and the body, our soul from our arsehole, Kirsty Clarke explores the thin line between misanthropy and humour. Perfunctory and primitive base human functions, such as fucking, shitting and breathing feature greatly within her practice. Clarke questions if our own physicality can surprise us. Brain sewage, such as innuendos and bodily noises get boiled down and distilled in to minimal assemblies of sound, music and objects. Kirsty Clarke creates absurd outcomes that are grounded in the fantastic of the mundane; the sound of breaths between laughter, Jazz bands playing the sounds of sex overheard through walls, sausages gently spinning on a record player. We do not laugh at our bodies, but the pure fact that we are bodies.