Kristen McClarty
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Kristen McClarty is a South African printmaker working in Cape Town. While McClarty has practiced as an artist since 2011, her approach and vernacular are informed by her law degree and previous career in corporate law. McClarty is a member of the South African collective The Printing Girls.
McClarty’s practice centres around woodcut, sometimes using experimental techniques to translate this medium to screen print and monotype. McClarty submits woodcuts from two series in 2024.
The first works are from McClarty’s Residuals series and speak of the trace left by the artist as she passes through a space. Semi abstract woodcuts of body under water, as bits of her slough off on things she touches; rock, water, air. And then how those bits of her accumulate over time, interacting with the environment and others that pass through the space. This work is printed on Asarakusui hemp lace, pocked by holes through the surface, made using the Rakusui technique.
McClarty also submits reduction woodcuts from her series A Sense of Place, exploring time and space as she interacts daily with her environment, walking the coastal paths near Kommetjie, where she lives and works. Despite repeatedly following certain routes, she continues to find new elements that catch her eye, worthy of a second look or inspection from a different angle. Perhaps a lichen covered rock or structure warrants visual isolation from what surrounds it. Often the object of her attention takes on the characteristics of human or animal, testament to her familiarity with the land.
McClarty has exhibited in the UK at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2022, 2023), The London Art Fair (2024) as well as widely in South Africa. Her work is held in private and public collections in South Africa, and private collections worldwide.
McClarty’s practice centres around woodcut, sometimes using experimental techniques to translate this medium to screen print and monotype. McClarty submits woodcuts from two series in 2024.
The first works are from McClarty’s Residuals series and speak of the trace left by the artist as she passes through a space. Semi abstract woodcuts of body under water, as bits of her slough off on things she touches; rock, water, air. And then how those bits of her accumulate over time, interacting with the environment and others that pass through the space. This work is printed on Asarakusui hemp lace, pocked by holes through the surface, made using the Rakusui technique.
McClarty also submits reduction woodcuts from her series A Sense of Place, exploring time and space as she interacts daily with her environment, walking the coastal paths near Kommetjie, where she lives and works. Despite repeatedly following certain routes, she continues to find new elements that catch her eye, worthy of a second look or inspection from a different angle. Perhaps a lichen covered rock or structure warrants visual isolation from what surrounds it. Often the object of her attention takes on the characteristics of human or animal, testament to her familiarity with the land.
McClarty has exhibited in the UK at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2022, 2023), The London Art Fair (2024) as well as widely in South Africa. Her work is held in private and public collections in South Africa, and private collections worldwide.
Kristen McClarty is a South African printmaker working in Cape Town. While McClarty has practiced as an artist since 2011, her approach and vernacular are informed by her law degree and previous career in corporate law. McClarty is a member of the South African collective The Printing Girls.
McClarty’s practice centres around woodcut, sometimes using experimental techniques to translate this medium to screen print and monotype. McClarty submits woodcuts from two series in 2024.
The first works are from McClarty’s Residuals series and speak of the trace left by the artist as she passes through a space. Semi abstract woodcuts of body under water, as bits of her slough off on things she touches; rock, water, air. And then how those bits of her accumulate over time, interacting with the environment and others that pass through the space. This work is printed on Asarakusui hemp lace, pocked by holes through the surface, made using the Rakusui technique.
McClarty also submits reduction woodcuts from her series A Sense of Place, exploring time and space as she interacts daily with her environment, walking the coastal paths near Kommetjie, where she lives and works. Despite repeatedly following certain routes, she continues to find new elements that catch her eye, worthy of a second look or inspection from a different angle. Perhaps a lichen covered rock or structure warrants visual isolation from what surrounds it. Often the object of her attention takes on the characteristics of human or animal, testament to her familiarity with the land.
McClarty has exhibited in the UK at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2022, 2023), The London Art Fair (2024) as well as widely in South Africa. Her work is held in private and public collections in South Africa, and private collections worldwide.
McClarty’s practice centres around woodcut, sometimes using experimental techniques to translate this medium to screen print and monotype. McClarty submits woodcuts from two series in 2024.
The first works are from McClarty’s Residuals series and speak of the trace left by the artist as she passes through a space. Semi abstract woodcuts of body under water, as bits of her slough off on things she touches; rock, water, air. And then how those bits of her accumulate over time, interacting with the environment and others that pass through the space. This work is printed on Asarakusui hemp lace, pocked by holes through the surface, made using the Rakusui technique.
McClarty also submits reduction woodcuts from her series A Sense of Place, exploring time and space as she interacts daily with her environment, walking the coastal paths near Kommetjie, where she lives and works. Despite repeatedly following certain routes, she continues to find new elements that catch her eye, worthy of a second look or inspection from a different angle. Perhaps a lichen covered rock or structure warrants visual isolation from what surrounds it. Often the object of her attention takes on the characteristics of human or animal, testament to her familiarity with the land.
McClarty has exhibited in the UK at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2022, 2023), The London Art Fair (2024) as well as widely in South Africa. Her work is held in private and public collections in South Africa, and private collections worldwide.
Kristen McClarty is a South African printmaker working in Cape Town. While McClarty has practiced as an artist since 2011, her approach and vernacular are informed by her law degree and previous career in corporate law. McClarty is a member of the South African collective The Printing Girls.
McClarty’s practice centres around woodcut, sometimes using experimental techniques to translate this medium to screen print and monotype. McClarty submits woodcuts from two series in 2024.
The first works are from McClarty’s Residuals series and speak of the trace left by the artist as she passes through a space. Semi abstract woodcuts of body under water, as bits of her slough off on things she touches; rock, water, air. And then how those bits of her accumulate over time, interacting with the environment and others that pass through the space. This work is printed on Asarakusui hemp lace, pocked by holes through the surface, made using the Rakusui technique.
McClarty also submits reduction woodcuts from her series A Sense of Place, exploring time and space as she interacts daily with her environment, walking the coastal paths near Kommetjie, where she lives and works. Despite repeatedly following certain routes, she continues to find new elements that catch her eye, worthy of a second look or inspection from a different angle. Perhaps a lichen covered rock or structure warrants visual isolation from what surrounds it. Often the object of her attention takes on the characteristics of human or animal, testament to her familiarity with the land.
McClarty has exhibited in the UK at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2022, 2023), The London Art Fair (2024) as well as widely in South Africa. Her work is held in private and public collections in South Africa, and private collections worldwide.
McClarty’s practice centres around woodcut, sometimes using experimental techniques to translate this medium to screen print and monotype. McClarty submits woodcuts from two series in 2024.
The first works are from McClarty’s Residuals series and speak of the trace left by the artist as she passes through a space. Semi abstract woodcuts of body under water, as bits of her slough off on things she touches; rock, water, air. And then how those bits of her accumulate over time, interacting with the environment and others that pass through the space. This work is printed on Asarakusui hemp lace, pocked by holes through the surface, made using the Rakusui technique.
McClarty also submits reduction woodcuts from her series A Sense of Place, exploring time and space as she interacts daily with her environment, walking the coastal paths near Kommetjie, where she lives and works. Despite repeatedly following certain routes, she continues to find new elements that catch her eye, worthy of a second look or inspection from a different angle. Perhaps a lichen covered rock or structure warrants visual isolation from what surrounds it. Often the object of her attention takes on the characteristics of human or animal, testament to her familiarity with the land.
McClarty has exhibited in the UK at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2022, 2023), The London Art Fair (2024) as well as widely in South Africa. Her work is held in private and public collections in South Africa, and private collections worldwide.
