George Clark

George Clark is Camden Art Centre's 2026 Studio Residency Artist. George Clark is an artist, curator and writer living and working in London. Working across, film, installation and performance. His work focuses on moving image in the expanded field as he explores new modes of exchange, collaboration and dialogue in a global context with a particular interest in the non-aligned histories of the global south. Over the last decade Clark has used experimental approaches to archival and cinematic imaginaries. Often collaborating with other artists, his films embrace non-linear, fragmented narratives as he questions how histories are constructed and how they are governed by culture, technology and social political concerns. Clark's approaches to making have been influenced by the philosophies of Japanese farmer Masanobu Fukuoka, exploring artistic practice and filmmaking as a form of permaculture – as he absorbs the ecologies and rhythms of the local ecosystems around him. George Clark's approach to understanding and responding to the rhythms of the ecosystems he inhabits will be explored at its core during his residency at Camden Art Centre. The residency comes at a point when Clark welcomes a young family into his life and practice and he is interested in setting up the residency studio as a collaborative space for him to work and make alongside his family as he thinks through new methods of making within these shifting states. Working in collaboration with his partner and fellow artist Eiko Soga for the first time, Clark and Soga are hoping to explore their emerging interest in children's prelinguistic worlds and the sonic resonances that are absorbed from pregnancy through to phonic formulation in multilingual children. Having taken sonic recordings in an anechoic chamber during the pregnancy of their second child, they are wanting to expand these field recordings as they look to create an active recording and experimental space within the residency studio. Together they have been inspired by Maarui Children Farm in Tokyo where children are taught agricultural practices as they work alongside farmers to grow and produce for the local community whilst gaining a material understanding of relationships to food and care for the environment. Clark and Soga are similarly looking to explore what it means to bring children into their practices and through this process consider how they can be more collaborative and ecologically conscious within their work, using natural processes and ingredients found in gardens, as they embrace these experimental outcomes while stepping away from the fixed certainties of film production. _This residency has been programmed in dialogue with Nisha Matthew, a London-based curator and researcher._