KIM CLARKSON
PRIVATE PUBLIC

“We are all linked to our environment; the lines on our face or the cracks in the wall, we are born into a set structure within which we make our impressions. Our personal settings and memory have a influence on our lives and we react to an environment we exist within, sometimes so strongly that the two elements between self and setting are one and the same; the essence of a moment.”

Kim Clarkson’s photographs deal with the notion of identity, personal space and her subject’s relationship with an environment.

Her work is driven by the desire to create a tangible source of memory by the instinctive process of marrying the opposing elements of the subject within a familiar setting. She shares the position of the ‘outsider’ with the viewer, who has to draw on their own memory and subjective life experience when viewing these images.

The resulting photographs are fragmented bookmarks of reminiscence on incidences that have made an impression on her conscious thought processes. Excited by the notion of the familiar face and the workings of memory she aims to evoke a response from the viewer in utilising symbolic references in her preservation of these interpretations.