The work of London-based designer Emma Clarke straddles ceramic sculpture and furniture.
Clarke’s creations consider the body as both a container for and an expression of psyche, approaching design through the contradictions of unity and disordered complexity.
Through works that are quasi-functional, Clarke explores narratives that divide inside/ outside, body/mind, rigidity/ fluidity, within a practice that activates undoings of binaries in favor of expressions of both/ and.
Choosing disparate materials from metal, wood, textile, and ceramics, she troubles their traditionally assigned uses, embracing subtle oscillations between fragility and stability.
The resulting combinations offer a new language that teases movement out of solid objects.
