Clare Dudeney: Held In Motion

Clare Dudeney’s upcoming solo show, Held in Motion, will be artist’s most expansive presentation to date, bringing together various practices – united by a focus on movement, transformation, and interconnection. Dudeney’s work explores the ever-changing nature of life – how we are shaped by our relationships, environments, and unseen connections – dissolving rigid boundaries and revealing a world in flux.

Through abstract woven terrains, ceramic weavings, and large-scale fabric collages, Dudeney captures the ebb and flow of thoughts, memories, and emotions. Drawing from her past observations of nature, particularly rock formations, where micro topographies can appear vast – she translates these shifting landscapes into tactile form.

Soft, subtle hues and delicate mark-making create organic forms that emerge and dissolve, networks woven together. Repetition and variation reveal an ongoing process, each piece a fragment of a larger enquiry.

The works invite close attention, edges blur, light glows, and hard surfaces hold traces of past soft gestures. There is an intimacy in their making, a dialogue between control and freedom. In this space of openness and entanglement, meaning is shaped by connection, experience, and perception.

at THAMES SIDE STUDIOS GALLERY, SE18 5NR