
Clare Smith
CLARE SMITH lives and works in Dover where she co-founded Dover Arts Development with Joanna Jones in 2006.
Her mixed English/Chinese heritage informs her perspective on issues of identity and categorisation. Frequent travelling as a child and young adult mean she has a somewhat ambivalent relationship to place, reinforced by the sense of ambiguity that comes from her mixed identity. She works with drawing, print media, collage and moving image to investigate this ambivalence and what it feels like to actually be in a place, with references to craft, the importance of labour and the handmade. Through her choice of materials and approaches, she creates work which attempts to create a sense of unity, an interpretation of Homi Bhabha’s “Third Space” – seen as a space in which different parts can come together to challenge dominant ideas of wholeness.
Smith runs a shared studio space for 7 artists called the Dover Studio Collective which hosts an annual Printfest and Open Studios.
She was shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019.
Projects
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- IWD Drawing Together 2021
- The London Biennale & DAD
- DAD Artists at home
- Dover’s Big Draw 2020
- What Next Zoom Salons
- What Next? Salon#2 Notes
- Clare Smith
- 2020 London Biennale
- Hello World: a Transcultural Exchange project
- Dover print fair 2020
- Dover Printfest
- Watercress and Daffodils: The book
- Art in the Park – Kearsney Interpreted Artists Films
- Park Bench Video Preview
- Park Bench: final day at Kearsney
- Artists and designers start thinking about the DBL innovation warehouse
- July 21st 2018 Park Bench Artists and writers in Keasney Abbey and Russell Gardens
- The Park Bench Project
- DAD presents at Authenticity Symposium
- Sycamores Class receive Explore Arts Award certificates
- Pebbles Screening event at Dover’s Silver Screen Cinema
- DAD visits Temple Ewell CEP
- The story behind CHALKUP21: An interview with Joanna Jones and Clare Smith
- Big Draw 2017: Kearsney Abbey Gardens
- All inked up
- A Parable for Endeavour
- Food and Doodling mixed well at the Dover Big Draw
- DAD @ SALT
- Weather watercolour workshop
- a tangible reminder, a souvenir, of the collaborative work ‘Weathertime’.
- A brilliant night
- Inspiration=Dover the event
- Kent Creative Awards: Arts Organisation of the Year
- Weathertime Premiere
- A Table of Elements
- Weathertime
- Exploring through drawing
- Walk and Draw 30 July
- Land and Sea exhibition
- Mid project gathering
- DAD at WOW Folkestone
- Empowering the Individual through the Collective
- Artists’ networking evening
- Buckland Mill Revisted
- Fan Bay Shelter and the 1917 and 1920’s Sound mirrors
- “Walking in my sisters’ footsteps”: DAD Send off
- Nautical Threads project film
- DAD SEND OFF
- 2014 London Biennale
- DAD presents at Tage der Utopie in Breklum, Germany
- Keep Going
- Exciting upcoming events
- War & Peace: the film
- Salon Evening at the National Trust White Cliffs Visitor Centre
- The Voyagers exhibition: press release
- The Voyagers workshops
- The Voyagers: Exhibition
- The Voyagers: press release
- WAR & PEACE SYMPOSIUM: 13 October 2012
- The Voyagers
- 2012 London Biennale
- DAD + Greg Stobbs aka Squirl
- 2010 London Biennale
- Here & Now: Draw me a …
- 2008 London Biennale
- 2007 London Biennale
- 2004 London Biennale