RESEARCH
Roger Clarke
Creating Physical Simulacra of the Non Visible World
Researching the use of scientific data to configure complex abstract data into three dimensional computer models. I am then producing sculptures from these models, moving them from virtual into real space, and enquiring to how this shift in spaces generates new responses, contexts and understandings. New processes for the production of the sculptures have had to be developed, as existing processes have not been appropriate for scale, colours or finish.
Ongoing sculptures
There is a significant continuing body of work that has developed over that last ten years that does not fit with the research above but has lead to a number of outcomes. These sculptures have been made in response to the particular demands or characteristics of a space/site, and enquire, in different ways, into how the presence of alien forms and materials transform responses to these spaces.
Replications and other digital images
Series of inkjet prints of rendered computer generated objects and forms that replicate three dimensional forms and surfaces that do not actually exist in real space and could not be photographed in this way. In this work I am enquiring into the extent that a photographically imitative image can be seen to be ‘real’ and therefore appear to exist.
Recent exhibitions and publications:
- 2005 - Les Merveilles du Monde, Musee de Beaux Arts, Dunkirk, France
- 2003 - Roger Clarke: New Work, Galerie Christian Fochem, Krefeld, Germany