"They didn’t know that inside my head I had been talking for quite some time. Saying something out loud is different, however. It confers exceptional value on the word spoken. It lends the word weight, gives it life, recognition, as if you’re repaying a debt to it, or celebrating its essence."

"Upon entering Throes a class of anubis school boys and their teacher greet you mutely. They sit contently, un-puzzled by their own strange existence. In blazers, stripy ties and grey trousers these seated, uniformed, jackal-headed, fury hybrids casually vie for attention on a largely unused row of shop fronts. They welcome you in to Throes, an exhibition of works discussing painful notions and anxious observations of the human condition. The work at Throes maintains modesty at points and is outlandish or immediate elsewhere. Throe is a noun describing the pains of childbirth or death, it can also be applied to other emotional or violent pains."

"Alexandria Clark's artwork has struck me as being some of the most interesting work I have seen in recent months. Clark featured recently in Tether Festival in Nottingham; jointly curating Throes with Charlotte Pratley, collaborating with fellow NTU Fine Art graduate Matthew Cooper in a live performance, Forecasts. The written work produced during Clark's past performances seems to have developed in to the form of a book, "Were you there when you read this?" for Beneath the Tarmac; the Grass exhibition in Bromley House, Nottingham."