Scarlett Carlos Clarke


Scarlett Carlos Clarke is a British photographer and artist based in London.
WWW scarlettcarlosclarke.com

Early life

Carlos Clarke was born in London in 1992, the daughter of British-Irish photographer Bob Carlos Clarke.

Career

Her debut solo exhibition The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer's Night, was at Cob Gallery in July 2021. Combining photography, sculpture and video, the exhibition was said by Hannah Abel-Hirsch in The British Journal of Photography to "engender a visceral feeling tied to the experience of domesticity. That simultaneous sense of comfort and claustrophobia, which can intensify after becoming a parent." Molly Cranston wrote in The Editorial Magazine that "The images themselves are lush and painterly, Clarke handles dramatic chiaroscuro like a renaissance painter, imbuing her photos with a sense of history and cinema, but the buzz-blue tones and household props plant her subjects resolutely in contemporary Britain." Nick Waplington has compared them to the works of painters Edward Hopper and Grant Wood.
She is the youngest photographer to have a photograph acquired by the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Publications

Group exhibitions

  • 2015: Take! Eat!, Diane Chire and Mc Llamas, St Marylebone Parish Church, London
  • 2016: New Femininity # 1, curated by GIRLS, Blender Studio, Berlin
  • 2017: A Story the World Needs to See, Berlin Feminist Film Week, Berlin
  • 2018: New Femininity # 2, Curated by GIRLS, Mutuo Galeria, Barcelona
  • 2018: Pillow talk, Curated by Antonia Marsh, Palm Tree Gallery, London
  • 2019: New Femininity # 3, Melkweg Expo, Amsterdam

Collections