Joseph Clinton Ojemuyiwa
Discipline:
Multidisciplinary Artist
Location:
Kent / London
ABOUT:
Clinton is a multidisciplinary artist born in Kent, UK, who curates cross-collaborative exhibitions, showcasing emerging artists in immersive settings.
Through sculpture, painting and film he takes a step away from traditional representations, digging out space for introspection and vulnerability. This often requires the embrace of discordance and renewal.
During the pandemic the internet became a requirement to receive spiritual communion, and the Holy Eucharist was inaccessible. Globally, religious practices that have occurred the same way for millennia adapted.
This opened his line of inquiry - How does technology disrupt or extend narratives of faith, suffering, renewal, and transcendence? Moreover, what does it mean for machines to become co-authors of devotional form?
Chinese born Contemporary—Yansi Lian commented: “Clinton's paintings know him before he knows them”. His work makes visible ‘the inner chapel’ —a space where the tender heart and the spirit sound.
-- Inner chapel: A term within Christian Spiritual Mysticism, postulated by St Julian of Norwich, uncovered between the 14th-17th century, discussed by Fr Benedict Groeschel --
2022-25 Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
2020-21 The Royal Drawing School


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