Haiku
Inequality
Addicted to Media
The fucking dishes
Biography
Background Picture, ‘Im doing the F@#kin Dishes', Oil on Canvas, 2021, 500mm x 500mm
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https://www.instagram.com/monclarkfineart/
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Education
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2019 - 2023 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Northbrook College, Sussex, Tutor -Teresa Whitfield
2017 - 2019 Foundation Art Met College , Brighton, Tutor - Phil Tyler
2006 - 2010 BA in Art, Children’s Literature, Open Uni, UK
1995 - 1997 Primary Teaching Diploma, Christchurch College of Education, New Zealand
Exhibitions
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July - 2024 - Fishermans Gallery on Brighton Seafront
April - 2024 - Fishermans Gallery on Brighton Seafront
July 2023 - Dynamite Gallery Pop up 2 day event for Female Artists in Sussex.
April - 2023 - Brighton Art Society - one day exhibition, Brighton
Aug - 2022 - Exhibited 2 paintings at the Mall galleries, London
May 2022 - Pre selected for The London Women's Art Society Mall Galleries
Dec 2021 - Corridor exhibition, BA Fine Art Northbrook College
Oct 2021 - Corridor exhibition, BA Fine Art Northbrook College
Sep 2021 - Selected for the London Women art society online exhibition
https://onlinegalleryswa160.oess1.uk/artwork/ArtistPage/41065?exhid=174
Jul 2021 - https://excursions-journal.sussex.ac.uk/index.php/excursions/10th-anniversary
One of 12 artists selected for a commission for the Sussex University Library
the theme - Reflections.
Mar 2021- Brush art gallery online exhibition ( Brighton UK based art gallery)
https://brushbrighton.bigcartel.com/products
Jan 2021 - Corridor Exhibition, BA Fine art, Northbrook college
Jun 2019 - Corridor Exhibition, Met College, Brighton
Nov 2018 ‘The Emperor and the Nightingale”, play and exhibition at the Ship Hotel
Jul 2018 - ‘On the Shelf” exhibition, a one day exhibition, Brighton
Jun 2018 - Corridor Exhibition, Met College, Brighton
Jun 2017 - Corridor Exhibition, Met College, Brighton
Researching great female artists from the Renaissance and Rococo periods my current work has been inspired from this period in history. Appreciating the feminine aesthetics throughout art history and looking for connections within the domestic space.
Using luminous colours, creating contrast between light and dark. Bold brush strokes and creating pastel coloured calm. I prefer to work with oils as it holds its viscosity for longer. I love to explore large and small scale pieces capturing space and giving purpose to my surroundings.
Im continously exploring the balance of strength, hope, sadness, fragility, sensuality and power of the existence through composition and colour. My paintings explore the figure taking up space in their surroundings.
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Exploring the findings further through photography, charcoal, pastel, collage, acrylic, and ink.
Colour is important to me and I use it to capture the essence of the objects, landscapes and
people around me, painting from life and photos . Oil is my preferred medium and the movement that comes with it especially when painting on MDF and Canvas.
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Romanticism and the Rococo was the start of the women’s feminist movement and through these paintings and
drawings I want to empower women and their different fantastic heroic inspirational lives. The Romanticism period was a time for individuality, inspiration, idealism, imagination and having objects of feeling, emotion, desire and fantasy.
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I hope you enjoy my art.