21/06/11

'Stalking Purple' goes to Chatsworth

I am delighted that the Duke of Devonshire has bought this piece from Collect for Chatsworth House

05/05/11

Collect 2011

I am showing new work at Collect this year, including ‘Stalking Purple’.

COLLECT
6 - 9 May 2011
Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ
Kings Road, London SW3

Clare Beck at Adrian Sassoon
First Floor, Stand 1.11

Friday 6 May 11 am - 6 pm
Saturday 7 May 11 am - 6 pm
Sunday 8 May 11 am - 6 pm
Monday 9 May 11 am - 4 pm

17/03/11

I am proud to be part of this:

Artists for Kettle’s Yard

19 March - 8 May 2011

Works for sale in aid of the Kettle’s Yard Development Appeal

Kettle’s Yard is fundraising for a new education wing. Many artists want to help and this exhibition is of works “donated by some of the biggest names in contemporary art – from major sculptures by Damien Hirst, David Nash, Phyllida Barlow and Antony Gormley to sumptuous paintings by Michael Craig-Martin, Bridget Riley, Lisa Milroy, Callum Innes and Maggi Hambling, and ceramics by Edmund de Waal and Natasha Daintry.”

Please follow the link for more information:

http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/exhibitions/artists.html

Many of the donating artists love Kettle’s Yard dearly, including myself. Here I am visiting the museum in about 1989.

My catalogue entry reads:

I was at Cambridge reading Japanese in the late 80’s. A friend took me to Kettle’s Yard, and I was astonished. I hadn’t really looked at art before - it had seemed monolithic, impenetrable, obscure and a bit dusty to me. But visiting this gallery was like drinking a bottle of potion which said - Feel Me. I suddenly got it. Gaudier-Brzeska’s dense and inert Bird Swallowing a Fish now gulped and twitched in a muscular way. I know it was the gentle intimacy and domestic setting of the gallery which made things more porous for me - the gentle and radical mixing of life and art infused objects with a subtle animation. If I hadn’t experienced Kettle’s Yard at that point in my life, I don’t think I would have become an artist.

Donated piece: