Since meeting in 2010 Daniel & Clara have dedicated themselves to a shared life of creative experimentation, working across moving image, photography, performance and mail art to explore the nature of human experience, perception and reality.
Their current projects focus on the fraught and complex relationship between humans and the natural world, particularly exploring the climate crisis as a psychological crisis and the ways in which this manifests in the imagination.
They live on Mersea Island on the Essex coast, UK.
Exhibitions:
Focal Point Gallery, Norwich Castle, Art Exchange, Lot Projects, 303 Projects, Hamilton MAS, By Art Matters Hangzhou, HKW Berlin, Calm & Punk Gallery Tokyo, The New Art Gallery Walsall.
Screenings:
Whitechapel Gallery, Kettle’s Yard, Fabrica Gallery, British Film Institute, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris Grand Palais, Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, Doclisboa, Indielisboa, Microcinema Artist Moving Image.
Awards, Funding & Commissions:
Arts Council England, Firstsite Collector’s Group Bursary, East Anglia Art Fund, Essex County Council, Slow Film Festival, Experimental Film Society.
Residencies:
Obsidian Coast, We Are The Minories, Metal Southend, Exploding Appendix.
Throughout 2022 Daniel & Clara presented Landscape Imaginary, a series of exhibitions and events of their work across the East of England.
Alongside their own practice Daniel & Clara support other artists through exhibitions, screenings, peer groups and publications. They have curated moving image exhibitions and events in the UK and abroad, and in 2019 they founded Moving Image Artists (MIA), an organisation dedicated to supporting and cultivating contemporary moving image art and experimental film.