Rhona Eve
Clews

Whether crawling on my belly across a field filming with a lo-fi lens or gathering voice notes about people’s relationships with mouths, my work explores the overlapping ecosystems of ‘bodies’, intimacy and longing, and is rooted in the aliveness and physicality of light-sensitive materials. As an artist, ecologist, and healer I use performance, humour and absurdity, drawing upon my autobiography of growing up a working-class environmental activist to re-situate photography, writing and film into somatic practices and contribute to wider ecologies of care. Swimming in the ecosystems of intimacy, bodies, animism and aliveness, my practice is rooted in the felt physicality of darkrooms, light-sensitive materials and analogue technology.

With a Bachelors in Psychology, I was self-taught in art until aged 33, gaining a Postgraduate Diploma in Photography, an MFA in Fine Art at Slade School of Fine Art and a Diploma in Environmental Humanities at New School of the Anthropocene (NSoTA). I have completed residencies in Australia and USA and exhibited extensively, including Creative Time (NYC), Four Corners, LUX, Café Oto and Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center (USA).

I teach and speak at the intersection of art and ecology independently and and co-curated ‘FastForward Women in Photography’ exhibition at UCL, ‘Five Mouths’ DIY Feminist embodied performance art nights and ‘Tender Maps’ embodied ecology show for NSoTA. I am recent recipient of a place on Baltic Analogue Lab (BAL) Film school, Europe and More-Than-Human rights (MOTH) programme, NYC.