David Clarke, United Kingdom

Stash

2020

Silver plate, pewter, steel

Varying dimensions

A creative response to Stash by Sarah Thomas

We knew there was a silver store, deep down. We heard that forms turned molten, they rounded then joined. They bubbled appendages like hanging fruits and sometimes candles spoke. We brought some up. We thought that they could teach us, and they did: we felt ourselves, too, e x p a n d i n g. When we returned them, we thought: Yes, isn’t there something to be said, for being round?

A classically trained silversmith who graduated from London’s Royal College of Art, David Clarke operates a consciously sustainable practice by taking discarded, unwanted material and re-infusing it with value. He has had solo and group exhibitions in the Netherlands, the USA and the UK and his work has been acquired for public collections such as the Victoria & Albert Museum.