Scarlett Carlos Clarke

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Scarlett Carlos Clarke
Born1992 (age 3031)
London, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationPhotographer
Years active2014–present
Website scarlettcarlosclarke.com

Scarlett Carlos Clarke (born 1992) is a British photographer and artist based in London.

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Early life

Carlos Clarke was born in London on January 9, 1992, the daughter of British-Irish photographer Bob Carlos Clarke. [1]

Career

Her debut solo exhibition The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer's Night, was at Cob Gallery in July 2021. [2] Combining photography, sculpture and video, the exhibition was said by Hannah Abel-Hirsch in The British Journal of Photography to "engender a visceral feeling tied to the experience of domesticity. That simultaneous sense of comfort and claustrophobia, which can intensify after becoming a parent." [3] Molly Cranston wrote in The Editorial Magazine that "The images themselves are lush and painterly, Clarke handles dramatic chiaroscuro like a renaissance painter, imbuing her photos with a sense of history and cinema, but the buzz-blue tones and household props (Daz detergent, Irn-Bru, Pampers) plant her subjects resolutely in contemporary Britain." [4] Nick Waplington has compared them to the works of painters Edward Hopper and Grant Wood. [5]

She is the youngest photographer to have a photograph acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London. [6]

Group exhibitions

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References

  1. "Cob Gallery : Scarlett Carlos Clarke : The Smell of Calpol on A Warm Summer's Night". The Eye of Photography. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  2. Allione, Pauline (August 2021). "La vie de femmes enceintes en confinement documentée dans une série photo suffocante". Arts Konbini. Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  3. Abel-Hirsch, Hannah (July 2021). "Scarlett Carlos Clarke's sickly sweet vision of domesticity". British Journal of Photography . Retrieved 5 August 2021.
  4. Cranston, Molly (August 2021). "Scarlett Carlos Clarke" . Retrieved 15 December 2021.
  5. Dinsdale, Emily (9 July 2021). "Scarlett Carlos Clarke captures lockdown motherhood in surreal imagery". Dazed . Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  6. Shadbolt, George (19 May 2011). "The British Journal of Photography". The British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 13 February 2022.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Scarlett Carlos Clarke". Cob Gallery. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  8. "Scarlett Carlos Clarke - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 14 February 2022.