Profile
Ken Clarry lives and works in the UK as a practising artist, sculptor and photographer. He studied landscape photography and art at the London School of Art, Architecture and Design, and Professional Photography at the University of Westminster (formerly PCL) where he obtained a distinction. In 2020 he was awarded a Doctorate at the University of Brighton for art practice research into the Spectre of Violence in Contemporary Art Practice. His images have been widely exhibited in the UK, Europe and Asia. Current projects include: ‘Changing landscape – Moving lives: migration, refugees and displaced persons’, and ‘Conflict Pollution: The Environmental and Ecological impact of war and conflict’. He uses lens-based processes to make images that centre on societal, cultural and environmental issues. To establish context and theory, he adopts aesthetic notions and practices, and analyses key literary and philosophical texts. This method opens up sites-of-discourse as ‘transitions’ or ‘iterations’ to understand what societal disjunctions and lacuna, such as conflict, war, migration and climate change, mean to, and for, different societies. In processing the research, his intention is to learn something new about the subject matter and the subliminal influences that impart a lingering ‘presence’ or ‘sense’ that interacts with the viewer to transcend origins.