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Clare Smith lives and works in Dover, where she is co-founder and co-director of Dover Arts Development.

“Drawing is an absorbing activity and a way of allowing subjectivity to emerge through the mark-making process itself. It is for me fundamentally about line-based mark-making and abstraction as a starting point. I am interested in the relationship between control and spontaneity, between blot and line, restraint and exuberance, autobiographical subjectivity and non-linear story making. My mixed Chinese/English background has always been present in my work but it has recently become a more conscious element and I am exploring this through the use of traditional Chinese materials and the use of a technical pen."