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'Ambient Stones (sea egg)', video projection on fired clay, volcanic sand, 2024 is an installation which incorporates a stage-like set featuring various fired clay sculptures painted with mine ochre that capture the projection and create a miniature landscape within the boundaries of the table. The video is of my daughter creating a nest on the shoreline and playing with a stone that she imagined was alive.

Part of 'Our Wider Flesh' PhD transfer exhibition at Project Space, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. This exhibition charts the first year of Carter's practice-based PhD project 'Mothering Beyond the Flesh', which investigates the relationships between landscape, maternal agency and creative practice. Situated in the post-industrial and semi-rural landscape of West Yorkshire - where the artist was born, raised and currently lives with her two young children - the first year of this research has focussed on uncovering the historical and theoretical roots of her own separation from this landscape, and how maternal and creative practice can generate narratives that might illuminate ways in which to attend and re-attach ourselves to the immediate environment. In addition to the video Our Wider Flesh, the exhibition presents a series of ceramic works made with materials foraged from the mines and fields close to the artist's home, responding to the flesh of the land through intimate and performative sculptures, installations using projections, photography and auto-ethnographic writing. Engaging with maternal, phenomenological, ecofeminist and landscape theory, the works on display are meditations on placemaking, geological deep-time intimacy and the cyclical nature of dwelling and caregiving, becoming research artefacts that trace the convergence of these different practices.

Clare Carter (Osborne) is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher with a background in songwriting and music composition. Her practice is auto-ethnographic and engages with site-specific projects exploring the human attachment to landscape and notions of world-making. Carter finished her MA Fine Art in September 2022 at the University of Leeds, and has been awarded The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities (WRoCAH) doctoral training scholarship for her PhD research project here at at the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies.