Clare Stephenson

Born in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in 1972, Stephenson graduated with a BA in Sculpture from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee in 1996 before serving on Glasgow’s Transmission Gallery committee. Stephenson has exhibited in group shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Stirling, Tyneside, London, Malmö, Madrid, Berlin and Buffalo and in solo shows at Glasgow’s Bulkhead and Transmission and Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice.

Stephenson’s drawings teleport classical sculptures into a retrofuturistic netherworld of pink strip flooring, (homo) eroticising the Euroman archetype. As Jean Cocteau’s drawings appeared to ooze from plumes of smoke, Stephenson’s work describes aesthetes and Greek gods gracefully emerging phoenix-like from wire tumbleweeds.

Neil Mulholland

Clare Stephenson