Bruce Clarke: Still Standing Upright Women

  • Women Standing Upright, Holding Memory, Dignity, and Presence

  • Overview
    Print on semi-transparent textile by Bruce Clarke announcing the solo exhibition Still Standing Upright Women at OOA Gallery.

    Still Standing Upright Women is a solo exhibition by Bruce Clarke, presented at OOA Gallery, Sitges (near Barcelona), from 14 March to 19 April 2026. The exhibition extends Clarke’s long-term engagement with visual remembrance; work that insists on dignity, presence, and the ethical responsibility of looking.

    Through a range of media—including print on semi-transparent textile, watercolour and collage on paper, acrylic and collage on canvas, and photo-collage on dibond—Clarke explores how images carry, fragment, and transmit memory. Rather than illustrating historical events, the works propose a slower encounter, where material processes become integral to meaning.

     

    Curatorial Framework

    The exhibition places particular emphasis on women’s presence within collective histories of survival and transmission. These figures are not approached as symbols, but as sites of endurance and continuity. The act of standing upright, repeated across the works, functions as both posture and proposition: an insistence on visibility against forces of erasure.

    Clarke’s use of collage and photographic layering introduces a language of assembly and interruption. Images are built through accumulation, abrasion, and recomposition, mirroring the instability of memory itself. Painting, print, and photographic surfaces operate together as zones of negotiation, between what can be shown and what must remain unresolved.

     

    Exhibition Details

    • Dates: 14 March – 19 April 2026
    • Location: OOA Gallery, Sitges (near Barcelona), Spain
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    The works presented in Still Standing Upright Women bring together painting, print, collage, and photo-based practices that reflect Bruce Clarke’s long-standing engagement with memory, resilience, and human dignity. Across prints on canvas, watercolour and collage on paper, acrylic and collage on canvas, and photo-collage on Dibond, Clarke develops a visual language grounded in fragmentation and reconstruction. Figures, archival imagery, and layered surfaces operate as sites of remembrance, where personal and collective histories intersect. Collage plays a central role in these works, allowing images and materials to coexist in tension. Through acts of cutting, overlaying, and reassembling, Clarke evokes the persistence of memory and the endurance of lived experience, particularly as it relates to women’s presence within histories of survival and transmission.
    Together, the works form a constellation of images that resist monumentality while carrying a strong commemorative charge. Rather than offering fixed narratives, they invite viewers to engage with memory as an active, ongoing process shaped by loss, resilience, and the possibility of repair.
     
    A constellation of figures—upright, uncompromising, intimate.
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  • Related Pages

    Learn more about the artist on the Bruce Clarke biography page, or explore selected works. For broader context, see our overview of contemporary African and diaspora art, and browse all exhibitions.

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