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Artist Clare Nicholls is a weaver, lace maker, and poet exploring textiles as texts. She writes poems in dream-like fragments, and embraces textiles as evocative holders of cultural memory. Layering handmade lace with silk painting, her work speaks concurrently about surface, image, and object as a complex and entangled whole. Clare’s fiber objects and images are grounded in personal research in witchcraft and somatic traditions, with emphasis on experimental poetry, mythology, and oral histories.
Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, She earned an MFA in Fiber & Materials Studies at Tyler School of Art and Architecture in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2022. Previously, she obtained a BA in Art and Art History from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2010, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from MICA in 2013. Her work has been exhibited nationally, most recently at Axis Gallery in Sacramento, CA. She lives and works between Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Washington DC.