Voltz Clarke :: Artists




						Education 1997 BA of Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design 1993 BTEC National Diploma in General Art and Design, Kent Institute Of Art and Design Exhibitions 2010 Licking out of the Same Bowl, DVF Gallery, New York Go Go City, The Sophie Croxten Doll House Gallery, London Bedizzened, APT Gallery, London Close to Home, Spaceman Gallery, London SLWA Bankside Gallery, London 2009 Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, London Line and Colour, The Art Works Galleries, Newcastle 2008 Front Window, Camberwell Arts Week, London 2006 London Bridges , Virgil DeVoldere Gallery , New York 2002 Gatsby, The New Lansdowne Club, London 2001 Handful of Showoffs, Marle Place Gallery , Kent 1999 Articulture, Southbank, London 1997 Text In Art, The Poetry Cafe, London 1996 King Sturge, Davis Street Gallery, London 1996 Blanc, Putney Exchange, London 1995 Outpost, Venice Biennale Projects 2010 2004 – 2010 Propmaking and performances for Spartacus Chetwynd, including Tax Haven Run By Women, Frieze Projects 2010, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse 2010, Hermitos Children, Altermodern, Tate Britain, 2009. The Snail Race, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan 2008 Delirious, Serpentine Pavilion 2006. The Fall of Man, Tate Triennial, 2006. Becks Futures, ICA, 2005. Born Free, Gasworks, 2004. 2009 My Space, site specific painting at South London Cultural Centre, London Front Window , conceived and organised by Lucy Soni and Sophie Eade, for Camberwell Arts Festival, London 2008 Consequences at Spartacus Chewynd’s Helmut Newton Ladies Night. Part of Event Horizon at the Royal Academy of Art, London 2004 – 2008 Assisted on prop-making and participated in performances for Spartacus Chetwynd, including The Snail Race, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan 2008 Delirious, Serpentine Pavilion 2006, The Fall of Man, Tate Triennial, 2006, Becks Futures, ICA, 2005, Born Free, Gasworks, 2004 2007 Commission for The Children’s Trust Tadworth There are two main themes in Lucy Soni’s work; the relationship between a child’s mark making and abstraction, as well as the friction between the freedom of childhood expression and the process of reproduction by a trained artist. Soni reproduces her daughters’ drawings by tracing, enlarging and repeating their spontaneous scribbles and gestures into oil paintings. She makes a series of decisions about quality of lines, colour, rules learned through years of looking at and making art, to create carefully balanced compositions. Through her paintings and drawings, Soni aims to unite high art, popular culture and the natural urge to mark make.