Edmund Clark - Flowers
from HMP Grendon from My Shadow's Reflection
As part of the work I made during my five-year residence at HMP Grendon, Europe's only wholly therapeutic prison for seriously violent and sexually violent offenders, I used flowers and leaves from plants cultivated or grown wild within the prison perimeter. These were picked and laid between sheets of prison issue paper towels then pressed under art books in my office. Over time they became fragile. Some rotted, some dried and curled. I used these for two installations - the physical matter for '1.98 metres square' (https://www.edmundclark.com/works/1-98m2/#text), and images of the plant matter on a lightbox for 'My Shadow's Reflection' (https://www.edmundclark.com/works/my-shadows-reflection/#text). This is one of the images from the projection and publication of 'My Shadow's Reflection'.
Edmund Clark links history, politics and representation through photography, video, documents, found images and installation. Recurring themes are systems of power, and experiences, spaces and processes of control in contemporary conflict and other contexts. Subjects include US military power and spending, extraordinary rendition and the CIA secret detention programme, detentions at the US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, UK government anti-terrorism procedures, and landscapes of occupation in the war in Afghanistan. Clark spent four years as artist-in-residence in HM Prison Grendon, Europe’s only wholly therapeutic prison for violent and sexually violent offenders. He has published six books and been exhibited widely, including solo museum exhibitions at the International Center of Photography Museum, New York, the Imperial War Museum, London, and Zephyr Raum für Fotografie, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim. Awards include the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal, British Journal of Photography International Photography Award and, with Crofton Black, an ICP Musem Infinity Award and Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award. He has a PhD by Published Work and is Reader in the Political Image at the University of the Arts London.
from HMP Grendon from My Shadow's Reflection
As part of the work I made during my five-year residence at HMP Grendon, Europe's only wholly therapeutic prison for seriously violent and sexually violent offenders, I used flowers and leaves from plants cultivated or grown wild within the prison perimeter. These were picked and laid between sheets of prison issue paper towels then pressed under art books in my office. Over time they became fragile. Some rotted, some dried and curled. I used these for two installations - the physical matter for '1.98 metres square' (https://www.edmundclark.com/works/1-98m2/#text), and images of the plant matter on a lightbox for 'My Shadow's Reflection' (https://www.edmundclark.com/works/my-shadows-reflection/#text). This is one of the images from the projection and publication of 'My Shadow's Reflection'.
Edmund Clark links history, politics and representation through photography, video, documents, found images and installation. Recurring themes are systems of power, and experiences, spaces and processes of control in contemporary conflict and other contexts. Subjects include US military power and spending, extraordinary rendition and the CIA secret detention programme, detentions at the US Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, UK government anti-terrorism procedures, and landscapes of occupation in the war in Afghanistan. Clark spent four years as artist-in-residence in HM Prison Grendon, Europe’s only wholly therapeutic prison for violent and sexually violent offenders. He has published six books and been exhibited widely, including solo museum exhibitions at the International Center of Photography Museum, New York, the Imperial War Museum, London, and Zephyr Raum für Fotografie, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim. Awards include the Royal Photographic Society Hood Medal, British Journal of Photography International Photography Award and, with Crofton Black, an ICP Musem Infinity Award and Rencontres d’Arles Photo-Text Book Award. He has a PhD by Published Work and is Reader in the Political Image at the University of the Arts London.