Michelle Clarke is a London-based artist whose work moves between installation, performance, film, textiles, and experimental writing. Her practice centres on rebellion, animism, and the politics of the everyday—where personal history, domestic materials, and philosophical enquiry collide.

Working through motifs of birds, wax, garments, and ritual, Clarke examines how power shapes the body: legally, emotionally, and culturally. Recent works explore Victorian marriage law (Femme Couvert), the mythology of worth (The Worth Series), and the instability of the human form (Mannequin of Melted Wax), often using stitching, burning, melting, or redaction as both process and metaphor.

Her interdisciplinary approach pulls from eco-political cinema, archival research, anti-capitalist theory, and autobiographical narrative. Books, performances, and garments sit alongside objects, zines, and film, extending each project into a multi-format ecosystem of thought.

Clarke’s work embodies a mature feminist voice that is both tender and uncompromising, shaped by lived experience, intellectual restlessness, and a commitment to creative autonomy. She uses art as a method of reclaiming agency—materially, emotionally, and politically—while inviting viewers into a space of reflection, resistance, and radical honesty.
She exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2023 and is currently developing a body of work for RA Schools and other postgraduate programmes.She lives and works in London with her dog, Simba.