Alex Clarke is an artist and lecturer based in London.

Clarke’s work as an artist functions across his own practice, lecturing and occasionally a collaborative project space. Through text and visual languages, Clarke’s work in each role engages with the conditions, politics and networks of relations between the personal and public; dialogue and discourse; meaning and legibility; research, practice and living.

With Emily Dickinson as central protagonist and Lost as diagram, Audience is an exhibition of painting, drawing, photography, text and video that considers how forms of social or professional withdrawal might connect practice with more critically intimate networks and gestures of exchange.

An index of first lines containing personhood compiled from Emily Dickinson’s nearly 2000 poems is centre and circumference to this show. Though Dickinson lived as a recluse and her unpublished poems were discovered posthumously, it seems her poems may have lived a good life in her active correspondence — connected, aired with a particular addressee, or written with an audience of one.