Clare Carter Osborne

Profile

I am a practice-based researcher from Yorkshire engaged with landscape and site-specificity, incorporating film, music composition, photography, ceramics, installation and creative writing. I have been awarded the WRoCAH scholarship (Arts & Humanities Research Council UK) for my practice-based PhD project, 'Mothering Beyond the Flesh: landscape and knowledge at the convergence of ecology, maternal agency and creative practice’. My position of mother and artist is used to both presuppose and question a theory of maternal agency in the Anthropogenic landscape, using specific gardens as case studies within the UNESCO biosphere island of Lanzarote. This work involves a combination of fieldwork, including oral history projects, embedded creative practice and reflective processing of the site; repositioning and translating knowledge generated by being in the landscape through an auto-ethnographic and creative methodology.

Research interests

I am interested in how landscapes are receivers, repositories and translators of knowledge systems, histories and stories. In particular, the confluence of colonial, geological, ecological and maternal themes are central to my work. My journey as an artist-researcher has involved responding to a diverse range of landscapes through residencies and fieldwork, from the Arctic to the desert, such as Upernavik Museum in Northwest Greenland and The Green Heart of Haría, an ecological garden within the UNESCO biosphere of Lanzarote. My practice engages with an auto-ethnographic methodology exploring how knowledge and meaning is generated in the landscape, and the ways in which dwelling and creative practice can reveal such knowledge, whereby the landscape itself can be a teacher or performer rather than a backdrop to teaching, storytelling or agency.

‘Our Wider Flesh’ video & exhibition at The Project Space @ FAHACS, University of Leeds (2024). https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/fine-art/events/event/3154/our-wider-flesh-exhibition?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabvx5q39Xfcbp2PZlLC9MbhK7alo-KocA2azndlVrFPL6YCZHreRkahYNs_aem_BKYJt6D-xFdFRrQx71NBiQ

‘Guaguas’ ceramic collection & artist book (2024). https://www.clarecarter.co.uk/guaguas

Video ‘Monsterland’ (2023) and accompanying essay published in CePRA Journal, issue #3. https://cepra.leeds.ac.uk/cepra-journal/journal-issue-3/issue-3-clare-carter-osborne/

‘Maternal Stratum’ exhibition at The Art House, Wakefield (2023). https://the-arthouse.org.uk/exhibitions/maternal-stratum/

‘Kitchen Memory Gyre’ video (2022). https://www.clarecarter.co.uk/11405816-video

 
‘Tradewinds’ installation (2022). https://www.clarecarter.co.uk/tradewinds

 
‘Day out in Bridlington’ projection work (2022). https://www.clarecarter.co.uk/11440737-video