PortfolioClaire Yspolclaire.yspol@gmail.com

Exquisite Instance (L.P.’s Apartment), 2017 Digital photograph

Annotative Behaviour (L.P.’s Apartment), 2017 Digital photograph

Untitled (Oral Amusement Park), 2017Self-drying clay, acrylic paintDimensions variable

Portable Inertia, 2016 Digital photograph

Profound, 2015 Ceramic mug

nothingisfully@yahoo.comfrozeninthepast@outlook.com becausethepast@yandex.com hasitsownspring@gmail.com

Untitled (four), 2015 Email addresses

Heretheworldceasestoceasetoexist@mail.com, 2015 Business cardEdition of 100

Found Sculpture, 2014 Digital photograph

Isle, 2013 Staples, carpet

Post-object Object, 2013 Digital photograph

Artist Statement

The output of my artistic practice is eclectic; in addition to taking photographs and writing experimental texts, I make ephemera, imaginary books and the occasional sculpture. What ties many of these works together is my interest in language and in the waywardly poetic quali-ties of everyday life.

My works are part of a self-styled continuum where one end is occupied by the three-dimensional object that has agency, while the other consists of the linguistic ‘object’ that can be held in the mind. The materials I use are often those that are immediately to hand, such as foodstuffs or soap. Varying widely, these materials can influence the making process, as well as the ideas behind the work, in unexpected ways. This is important to me, I want the artworks and what they consist of, to both amplify and contradict one another.

Uncertainty and ambiguity are constructive devices in my practice, through them I create new associative pos-sibilities which emphasise the overlooked. Ultimately, my artworks are the result of playful investigations. Through making, I’m simultaneously questioning and discovering what an artwork can be and how it operates when it en-ters into the wider world.

Claire Yspol

Claire Yspol – CV

Born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands Lives and works in Dundee, United Kingdom

Education 2016-2017 MFA Art, Society and Publics, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, United Kingdom

2010-2013 Bachelor of Fine Art (first class honours), Hereford College of Arts, Hereford, United Kingdom

Selected Exhibitions and Projects

2017MFA Degree ShowDuncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design

2013 Shortlisted for the Lacuna Art Prize (with Isle, 2013) ArtLacuna, London

Degree ShowHereford College of Arts

Hinterland, site-specific installationHereford College of Arts

2012 A Sheet, A Chorus (On Beauty), interventionHereford College of Arts

2011 How spaces communicate their concerns, site-specific installationDownstairs Gallery, Madley, UK

A Catalogue of Familiar Places, performance, sound recordings and publicationHereford

Residencies

2011Downstairs GalleryMadley, UK