Clare Strand’s images are conceived, researched, developed and resolved through a highly unusual and personal sensibility, using a clear and decisive method of production unique to each project. Strand belongs to the everyday, yet her images evoke the mesmeric, the talismanic and the unsolvable. Solutions reporting the ordinary often turn up further layers of complexity and reveal problems as yet un-considered. The hinterland to her image making is provided by a childhood upbringing where a family life in a suburban cul-de-sac was confounded by true crime magazines, ominous supernatural events, Paul Daniels on Sunday evenings, and a flasher who lived in the house opposite.
'Subject matter dominates her work – photography and film are the mediums through which her enquiries are mapped. Strand is interested by imagery in which the aesthetic are secondary to function. Taking inspiration from forensic imagery, instruction manuals, the conventions of signage, the mechanics of spirit photography and photography employed to offer evidence of an event or a task, her work treads the uncertain boundaries between the expected and the absurd"
Clare Strand is also one half of the ideas based collective MacDonaldStrand.
Clare Strand is represented by Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery, and all print purchase enquiries should be directed to:
Brancolini Grimaldi
43-44 Albemarle Street
London W1S 4JJ
United Kingdom
+44(0)20 7493 5721
or email london@brancolinigrimaldi.com
For other enquiries please email Clare Strand