Neve Clarke is an emerging multidisciplinary artist whose final outcome is often found in printmaking. She is currently working and based in Falmouth, Cornwall, and takes inspiration from the gardens and wild spaces often found in West Cornwall.
Delving into the relationship between the human and non-human, Clarke forms a collaboration and conversation with living, organic forms, bringing an energy into her work. This evokes further questions surrounding the relationship between the human and nonhuman, through first-hand experiences. Clarke uses printmaking and drawing to visualise ideas by using mark-making and drawing to form a conversation with these non-human forms and processes that she works with. Clarke takes this creative relationship further by allowing these organic forms to then grow amongst her etching plates, prints and parallel to her work.
Building upon the foundations of Eco-Art and Land Art, this collaborative relationship also problematises what it means for something to be ‘organic’ and ‘natural’; is the natural simply a reflection of how humanity have tamed the non-human to meet our desires and needs? Utilising natural processes, such as decay and growth, have allowed Clarke to ask uncomfortable questions about humanities impact on the wider ecosphere and whether we really have a symbiotic relationship with the ‘organic’ or is it a passive object of human control?
