Breakaway
Breakaway series - Watercolour and ink on archival paper
Breakaway is a series of watercolours depicting massive icebergs that have calved from polar ice shelves amid record-breaking global temperatures — icebergs large enough to disrupt ocean currents and wind patterns. Each is rendered in military camouflage, a wry disguise for the largest warnings we refuse to see, adrift and hiding in plain sight in our oceans.
This is an on-going body of work that sadly, continues to grow.
D 16
B 9
B 31
A 38
B 15
Next door, five small watercolour drawings make up the Breakaway series. B-15 is a pretty, blue-patterned sketch which looks like an abstract form until you read the handwritten words below: “B-15 - 295km long and 37km wide, is the world’s largest recorded iceberg - larger than Jamaica.” It is with such unassuming gestures that Clare seeks to jolt viewers into consciousness. This is art with a purpose. The show forms a delicately phrased apocalyptic message, drawing attention to the effects of human activity — global warming and climate change.
Christine Leech - Sunday Times Review