About The
Artist
Keely Clarke's practice explores the systematic breakdown of visual information through neon CMY screen printing. Working with bitmap methodology and transparent ink layering, Clarke investigates how colour fragmentation becomes a creative condition rather than a technical limitation. Through systematic constraints, Clarke reveals the autonomous behaviour of materials, where neon pigments generate unexpected illusions and meaning emerges from the spaces between fragments. Her works don't seek to restore wholeness, but rather to orchestrate the chaos of permanent incompleteness.
Clarke's investigations extend across two-dimensional prints, three-dimensional acrylic constructions, serial works, and recycled reconstructions. Each body of work applies the same systematic logic, bitmap grids, CMY layering, neon pigments, to reveal how identical processes can generate radically different outcomes. Whether separating colour layers into suspended acrylic panels or hand-cutting failed prints into millimetre-wide strips for collage, Clarke consistently discovers new creative territories within the same set of constraints. In this way, the process itself becomes the subject, a living system where control and material intelligence are in constant, productive tension.