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UK / Ghana
2004 Sansa Workshop
Pamela Clarkson
Pamela Clarkson worked in Ghana in 1991; she returned to live there in 1993. From 1970-93, after graduating from the Royal College of Art, she taught both painting and printmaking in many British Art Schools; she also exhibited widely. Clarkson has travelled and lived for sort periods of time in the USA and South America. In 1979 and 1980 she made working trips to Egypt and Malaysia respectively and in 1989 spent several months drawing in Mali.
Statement:
Any method of working can become prescribed. Work made at the time of the SaNsA workshop was a deliberate effort to incorporate ways of working I had thought about but not attempted before.
Collecting rubbish, trodden-in or ridden-over by the daily traffic along the dirt roads,and then printing from it gave an instant image an abbreviated image, not wholly recognisable.
A discarded broom or plastic bag could be printed then turned into a tool for making additional and different marks. Old habits of looking, sifting, re-inventing and discarding soon came into play but with less restricting self-censorship.
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Lost Objects 1 2004
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Lost Objects 2 2004
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