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Esmé Clutterbuck Celebrity Hair Ink and Pen on Magazine Signed on Verso 15 x 10cm (5¾ x 3¾ in.) About Esmé lives and works in Bristol, UK. She has exhibited and completed residencies here and abroad and has had work in numerous Open Exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Woolwich Print Open, International Print Biennale and The Discerning Eye (Drawing Bursary, finalist) and many others. She has work in public and private collections; is a member of BV Studios Bristol and a sometime member of Spike Print Studios. She has been a visiting lecturer and tutor at numerous colleges and universities. Education 1979 - 82 Portsmouth Polytechnic, BA Fine Art 1982 - 85 Royal Academy Schools, Post Graduate Diploma - Painting 1993 - 95 Central St Martins, Post Graduate Diploma (PT) Printmaking Select Exhibitions/Awards 2021 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London 'This House Protects the Dreamer' Safe House 2, Peckham, London 2020 Collaborative Residencies at The Garage, Bristol RWA Open, Bristol (delayed 'til 2021) 2019 'Hidden' Fringe Arts Bath, Milsom Place, Milsom St, Bath Drawing Residency, Drawing Projects UK, Trowbridge RWA Open Exhibition, Bristol 2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Collaborators 5: The Hand of the Artist, Roaming Room, London 2017 RWA Open Exhibition, RWA, Bristol 2016 The Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London Woolwich Print Fair, London (Invited Artist) 'Print', 44AD Gallery, Bath 'Outline', Heritage Courtyard Gallery, Wells, Somerset RWA Open Exhibition, RWA, Bristol 2015 'Drawn' Open, RWA, Bristol 2014 'The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries, London. (Invited Artist). International Print Biennale, Northern Print, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork Esmé's thoughtful work and intimate work is sometimes representational and sometimes not. It is telling a story but indirectly often through representation and sometimes through simple shapes and pattern. She works with a variety of processes including drawing, photography and print. The relationship between drawing and surface is important whether that be watercolour paper, women's magazines, digital images or domestic linen. These drawings are part of an on-going examination of hair in all its beauty and uncanniness. They are concerned with the sense of loss and otherness that is present when hair is removed from the body. In these images the figure is absent but the woman is nevertheless present; represented by her hair.