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.