George Clark

George Clark’s approach to understanding and responding to the rhythms of the ecosystems he inhabits will be explored at its core during his residency at Camden Art Centre. The residency comes at a point when Clark welcomes a young family into his life and practice and he is interested in setting up the residency studio as a collaborative space for him to work and make alongside his family as he thinks through new methods of making within these shifting states.

Working in collaboration with his partner and fellow artist Eiko Soga for the first time, Clark and Soga are hoping to explore their emerging interest in children’s prelinguistic worlds and the sonic resonances that are absorbed from pregnancy through to phonic formulation in multilingual children. Having taken sonic recordings in an anechoic chamber during the pregnancy of their second child, they are wanting to expand these field recordings as they look to create an active recording and experimental space within the residency studio.

Together they have been inspired by Maarui Children Farm in Tokyo where children are taught agricultural practices as they work alongside farmers to grow and produce for the local community whilst gaining a material understanding of relationships to food and care for the environment. Clark and Soga are similarly looking to explore what it means to bring children into their practices and through this process consider how they can be more collaborative and ecologically conscious within their work, using natural processes and ingredients found in gardens, as they embrace these experimental outcomes while stepping away from the fixed certainties of film production.

This residency has been programmed in dialogue with Nisha Matthew, a London-based curator and researcher.

Running for over 30 years, Camden Art Centre’s residency programme provides a nurturing and empowering environment for artists to reflect on and develop their practice within a public institution. It provides a supportive space to take risks and experiment with new ideas.

Camden At Centre’s residency artists have use of an on-site studio, technical and curatorial support, access to a public audience, and mentoring opportunities.

To date, the programme has supported over 100 artists and built a strong legacy, with 12 artist-in-residence having gone on to be nominated for the Turner Prize, including four winners.