DANIEL &
CLARA – MASTERCLASS
5th
October, 10am-2pmNorwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
A masterclass with Daniel & Clara open to artists, filmmakers and students of art, cinema and art history.
Drawing on over a decade of working together, Daniel & Clara will talk about living a creative life, sharing insights on the dynamic between life and art, staying true to your vision and finding your place in the art world.
In the morning Daniel & Clara will give an illustrated presentation about their practice, talking through their journey from first meeting in 2010 and making experimental feature films before expanding their practice into installation, performance, photography and mail art.
The afternoon will focus on their current exhibition The Lost Estate, they will speak about the making of this project with curator Rosy Gray and specifically give insights into working on a commission with a museum.
The day will end with an informal feedback session for participants to ask advice about their own practice. Daniel & Clara will share some survival strategies for artists and talk about the importance of building meaningful creative networks, collaborations and support groups.
About Daniel & Clara
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.
Recent exhibitions include Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery (2024), Art Exchange, Colchester (2024), SET Kensington, London (2023), 303 Projects, Lowestoft (2022), Calm & Punk Gallery, Tokyo (2022), By Art Matters, Hangzhou (2021), Big Screen Focal Point Gallery, Southend (2021). Selected screenings include Close-up Cinema (2023), GroundWork Gallery, King’s Lynn (2022), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Grand Palais Paris & HKW Berlin (2020), Experimenta Mixtape, BFI Southbank, London (2019), Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2019), Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019) and Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2019). Films by Daniel & Clara are included in the BFI National Archive.
Throughout 2022 Daniel & Clara presented Landscape Imaginary, a series of exhibitions and events of their work across the East of England. This was accompanied by the publication of the first monograph about their work.
Alongside their practice Daniel & Clara support other artists through exhibitions, screenings, peer groups, mentoring and publications. They have curated moving image exhibitions and events in the UK and abroad, and in 2019 they founded Moving Image Artists (MIA).
They currently live on Mersea Island on the Essex coast, UK.