Scarlett Carlos Clarke Explained
| Scarlett Carlos Clarke |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Photographer |
| Years Active: | 2014–present |
Scarlett Carlos Clarke (born 1992) is a British photographer and artist based in London.
Early life
Carlos Clarke was born in London on January 9, 1992, the daughter of British-Irish photographer Bob Carlos Clarke.[1]
Career
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
- 2015: Take! Eat!, Diane Chire and Mc Llamas, St Marylebone Parish Church, London[7]
- 2016: New Femininity # 1, curated by GIRLS, Blender Studio, Berlin
- 2017: A Story the World Needs to See, Berlin Feminist Film Week, Berlin
- 2018: New Femininity # 2, Curated by GIRLS, Mutuo Galeria, Barcelona
- 2018: Pillow talk, Curated by Antonia Marsh, Palm Tree Gallery, London
- 2019: New Femininity # 3, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam
Collections
1 print (as of 14 February 2022)[8]
Notes and References
- News: Cob Gallery : Scarlett Carlos Clarke : The Smell of Calpol on A Warm Summer's Night . 13 February 2022 . The Eye of Photography.
- Web site: Allione. Pauline. La vie de femmes enceintes en confinement documentée dans une série photo suffocante . Arts Konbini . August 2021. 15 December 2021.
- Web site: Abel-Hirsch. Hannah. Scarlett Carlos Clarke's sickly sweet vision of domesticity . July 2021. British Journal of Photography. 5 August 2021.
- Web site: Cranston. Molly. Scarlett Carlos Clarke . August 2021. 15 December 2021.
- Web site: Dinsdale. Emily. Scarlett Carlos Clarke captures lockdown motherhood in surreal imagery. 9 July 2021. Dazed. 3 August 2021.
- News: Shadbolt . George . The British Journal of Photography . 13 February 2022 . The British Journal of Photography . 19 May 2011.
- Web site: Scarlett Carlos Clarke . Cob Gallery. 3 August 2021.
- Web site: 2022-02-14. Scarlett Carlos Clarke - National Portrait Gallery. www.npg.org.uk.
