The following works were made for the online project with Rented by the Hour called ‘Home Sweet Home’. All works were made during Lockdown 2020, in the artists home.

Clarke reflects on the lack of privacy in the home as a mother. Disembodied hands of the artists children reach out of the sides of the bathtub, while the figure turns away, her body melting into the milky water to escape touch, and rejecting also the voyeuristic gaze of the viewer. In ‘Hands, Face, (no) Space’ Clarke explores feelings of claustrophobia as a mother in Lockdown. Offering a candid and ambiguous portrait of the artist hiding amongst hundreds of casts of tiny hands.

‘I wanted to make work that looked at the ritual of cleansing. In our house the bathtub is part of a nighty ritual before bed, but like every activity in our house it is not a private affair. This image shows how virtually impossible physical space is as a mother of small children. Liminality is created through the use of breastmilk; a cleansing, healing potion, but also the very thing that often leads me to feel ‘touched out’.’