Ross Clancy

My practice is characterised by my inability to place my presence. Through expanded drawing, object and installation, I occupy space as though I’m pleading for an answer for so long that I’ve forgotten what my initial question was. Through an intuitive process, I imprint feeble meaning onto “listening surfaces”; tangible substrates which operate reflectively, existing for far longer than the transitory feelings that fuelled them.

‘Listening Surfaces’ is an anthology of these temporal moments of consonance that I experience between my body and the materials I use whilst making. It is as if these spaces become extensions of myself, and the materials become part of me. Whilst aware that the carbon-based materials I draw with, neither exist inside/outside of me or ‘act’ through me; it is rather an acknowledgement that my own action is only possible because of this shared agency. In other words, I am not just me, I am also because of carbon.