Patrick Clarke
A Fear of the Wind
This project is a pause, a series of images in quiet contemplation, a reflection on life, the choices we make and the events outside of our control. The Polaroid images represent those quiet moments that we all experience, staring into space in the hope that somehow some sense can be made of it all. Focusing on anything in view that allows your consciousness to escape, if only for a fraction of a second. In these flashes one does not really see, it's a fleeting moment, a snapshot, gone before we even realise it was there. In contrast to this the larger photographs create a paradox in which they are a more direct search for answers but end up asking only more questions. The photographer turns away from the domestic and toward nature hoping to find his path. When no clear course is found a kind of uneasiness is discovered in the blurred shapes that dominate these disturbing yet, enchanting, landscapes.
Darragh Basquille • Jeffrey Bright • Caroline Callaghan • Darren Campion • Patrick Clarke • Lorna Fitzsimons • Fiona Hackett • Gary Loughlin • Barbara Mac Nelis • Don McNeill Healy • Jennifer Moor • Róisín Morris • Siobhan Ogilvy • Gary Somers • Dianne Whyte •
Camberwell College of Arts
BA (Hons) Photography
Cleveland College of Art & Design
BA (Hons) Photography
Dublin Institute of Technology
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh College of Art
BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography