In print: Landshaping: Seeing differently with Conor Clarke, by Maya Love

Print Magazine

24 Feb

“With words as her foundation, Conor Clarke walked around her neighbourhood, allowing intuitive associations to guide her choice of site and subject. She used a pinhole camera with no viewfinder, restricting her control over aesthetic choices and allowing for guesswork. The visual is no longer the only means of interpretation. Here, land is something to be smelt, touched, heard, felt and imagined,” writes Maya Love in Issue 00.

Writer biography: Maya Love is a writer, researcher and fledgling museum professional based inTāmaki Makaurau. She holds an BA Hons with distinction in Art History and is a recipient of the Adrienne Jarvis Prize. As @d__composition, she communicates with the dead across various mediums and shares her love for all things art and the afterlife.

Conor Clarke, *Seeing Nicolas seeing Nature as a picture. Buller River / Kawatiri, Buller Gorge*, 2014, Instagram post. Image courtesy of the artist

This article appears in The Art Paper Issue 00. Purchase to read more.

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Issue 00 celebrates artists who live or exhibit within Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa (New Zealand). Produced in conjunction with the Auckland Art Fair 2021, published by Index.

Featured artists: Conor Clarke, Owen Connors, Millie Dow, Ayesha Green, Priscilla Rose Howe, Robert Jahnke, Claudia Jowitt, Robyn Kahukiwa, Yona Lee, Zina Swanson, Kalisolaite ‘Uhila.

Contributors: Dan Arps, Julia Craig, Erin Griffey, Susan te Kahurangi King, Shamima Lone, Victoria McAdam, Robyn Maree Pickens, Meg Porteous, Lachlan Taylor, George Watson, Victoria Wynne-Jones.

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