Faculty Visual Art

Richard Clements

Assistant Professor, Sculpture

“My practice is concerned with structural affinities between perception, language, and theological principles. In particular, I am interested in how the Hermetic Principle applies to our assumed dualities of mind/matter, subject/object, symbolic/real, and perception/language.”

Richard Clements is an artist who studies phenomenology, the occult, structures of consciousness, and linguistic philosophy. Currently he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Arts, teaching in Sculpture. He earned his Master’s in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 2007. His work has been supported by the Canada Council of the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. His research interests include the history of games, Harry Houdini, Arthurian myth, and Brancusi.

Education

2007
Masters Degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, England


2005
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada

Selected Exhibitions

2018
Richard Clements, Atlas House, Suffolk, U.K

2017    
A Third Thing, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, Canada

2016    
Selected Work, CSA Space, Vancouver, Canada

2014    
The Origin of Language, Riss(e) Gallery, Milan, Italy

2013    
Day Treads On Night, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Canada

2010    
Colour: Day Through Night, Fold Gallery, London, U.K

2009    
Richard Clements, Room Arte, Milan, Italy

2008    
New Work, Tenderpixel Gallery, London, U.K

2008   
Richard Clements, Brown Space, Milan, Italy
 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021    
What in the actual fuck? I can't believe I said that! I'm going home.
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2020    
Richard Clements, Drive-By, Window Gallery, Los Angeles

2019    
UNSEEN, Fold Gallery, London, U.K

2017    
Atlas House, Sluice Biennial, London, U.K

2013    
Dialogos, CACT Gallery, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Magic 8 Ball, Fold Gallery, London, U.K

2011    
Matter, APT Gallery, London, U.K    
Archaeology & Nostalgia, Organizzato da O’artoteca, Milan, Italy
Floating & Waterlogged Objects, Fold Gallery, London, U.K

2010    
The Absence of Everything, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Alex Robbins and Richard Clements, MOT Gallery, London, U.K    

2009    
Run No.1, Room Arte, Milan, Italy
Part One, Nordisk Kunst Plattform, Brusand, Norway

2008
Terra Firma, Fold Gallery, London, U.K
 

Selected Biography

2013    
“Richard Clements’ Day Treadeth on Night”, Espace: sculpture, Winter ed., Montreal, Canada

2011    
“Bad Infinity”, Dan Coombs, AbstractCritical, October, London, U.K
“Floating & Waterlogged Objects”, Gabriel Coxhead, TimeOut Magazine, March     London, U.K

2009    
“Richard Clements: New Work”, Robin Peck, Sculpture, November, New York, U.S.A
 

  • Untitled (woodpile), 2008, wenge, brass, 61'' x 28'' x 11''

  • Untitled (woodpile) [detail], 2008, wenge, brass, 61'' x 28'' x 11''

  • Untitled, 2008, denisyuk hologram of petrified wood, blackened steel, 3''x4''x5''

  • Skidway 6, 2015, plaster, wood, glass, 12" x 24" x 5"

  • Ars Lineandi with Coins (Spiral Prayer), 2018, glass, paint, wood, metal, 33.7cm x 37.5cm x 5.6cm

  • Landscape (Benham’s Disc), 2019, hydrostone, 21cm x 3cm

  • Trough, 2010, plywood, steel, two glass sheets, 240 cm x 120 cm x 31 cm

  • The Judge, 2012, sand cast aluminium, 25cm x 17cm x 1cm (each)

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