Alexandria Clark was born in Brighton, UK in 1985. She graduated from Nottingham Trent in 2007 and is currently a freelance writer and an artist working in the Midlands. Her work is directly involved in live performance and text art. (www.alexandriaclark.com)
The essence that drives Alexandria Clark to write and perform is “the possibility of our existence being lost. (pause) Our pains, our happiness, moments of extremity that affect our lives so much and mean such a lot, just vanishing into the forgotten past. There is a need, that it must be recorded. A yearning so strong that runs through our bodies. That runs through us and our double, that thrills us to record the truth. Whilst we make up the fantasy, that we dream up around it.”
Education
Nottingham Trent University BA(Hons) Fine Art (2004-2007)
Exhibitions
Open Dialogues: New Life Berlin 2008
(http://www.wooloo.org/opendialoguesblog/)
Also took part in "Powell's Opera" and "Cuban Annos": New Life Berlin Festival (2008)
"Forecasts" (collaborative piece): Tether Studios (2007)
"Were You There When You Read This?" at Beneath the Tarmac: the Grass exhibition: Bromley house (2007)
(www.tether.org.uk)
"This Must Be The Place" at Double Take: Rules of the Game exhibition: Surface Gallery (2007)
"Untitled" at ANON exhibition: Drawing Gallery Space (2007)
"The End" and "The First Step" at Mundane exhibition ( 2006)
"Silent" at Symposium exhibition
"Body Landscape" at Scapes event: Stealth (2006)
"Oxford" at Urge exhibition: Raffles Art Cafe (2006)
Publications
"Times Winged Chariot" featured in 20x20 magazine (www.20x20magazine.com) (2008)
Review "New Life Berlin: Open Dialogues" piece commissioned by a-n Interface (http://sites.a-n.co.uk/interface/article/443709) (2008)
Various pieces have been published on Interface's Reviews Unedited (http://sites.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviewers/single/45288) (2005-present)
Insert about Alexandria Clark in Degrees Un-edited a-n Magazine (2008)
"Something Worth Writing About?" in Reciprocal Writing commissioned by Open Hand Publications (2007)
"Transition Essay" commissioned by Surface Gallery (2007)
Featured in "a-n Degrees Unedited 2007" a-n Magazine (2007)
Review "Consolation Service, Berlin" featured in the April Issue of a-n Magazine (2007)
Review "Future Focus '06: This Year's Model" commissioned by a-n Magazine (2006)
"Just a Smile" in Maid Magazine (2006)
"Martin J Naylor" in Tonguezine (2006)
Curation
Co-curation, with Charlotte Pratley, of Throes exhibition, part of Tether Festival Nottingham (2007)
contact: mail@alexandriaclark.com