Clementine Keith–Roach
Present Tense
27 January – 28 April 2024
Somerset
About the Artist
Clementine Keith-Roach is a sculptor of new ruins. Her work centers around the process of plaster-casting. Casts taken from her body and other objects are melded with antique terracotta vessels and then trompe-l’oeil painted to create a continuous surface that blurs the boundary between body and object, skin and clay. Her works a reminiscent of archaeological artefacts, but they also propose new worlds to come. They are thus both funerary and pregnant with possibility.
Keith-Roach’s work was recently included in ‘Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder,’ Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York NY (2023); and ‘Milk,’ Wellcome Collection, London, UK (2023).
Keith–Roach’s solo and two-person exhibitions include: ‘Earth Sky Body Ruins’ (with Clementine Keith-Roach), Ben Hunter, London, UK (2023); ‘Knots’ (with Clementine Keith-Roach), P.P.O.W., New York NY; and ‘Mythemes,’ Ben Hunter, London, UK (2021).
Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Slip Tease,’ Kasmin, New York NY (2023); ‘Milk,’ Wellcome Collection, London, UK (2023); ‘Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder,’ Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca NY (2023); and Felix Art Fair, PPOW Gallery, Los Angeles CA (2023).
Keith–Roach is the editor of ‘Effects,’ a journal of art, poetry, and essays. She lives and works in Dorset, UK.
