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Claire Mc Dermott

London, uk
Mc Dermott uses sculpture, and photographs to make connections between plumed seeds, glass, and air. Her interest in the biophysics of a spent flower is based on its morphology, and how its mechanism functions during senescence.
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Mc Dermott's photography research influences her sculptures to envision a planet that shares and represents all cultures within a community.  Her transdisciplinary thinking creates futuristic, and abstract plants and uses imaginary concepts to define her social and environmental concerns.

Mc Dermott graduated with an MA Art and Science from Central Saint Martins in 2020 and an MRes Art and Humanities from the Royal College of Art in 2023. Her thesis titled "Happenings, Sightings, and A Plumed Seed" explored Allan Kaprow's art happenings while comparing them to the same enlightenment of her field sightings and observations.  

Mc Dermott is interested in biophysics; how a plumed seed mechanism functions and its interactions with our atmosphere as it floats. Inspired by nature, being aware of what forms the bigger picture, to look wider and think of the airborne motes and plastic particles that float with the plumed seed.  Using this methodology, she uses transparent boundaries to hold the curiosity of a discovery with a recognition of reparative humanistic views. 

She creates sculptures from her photography research and it was from her microscopic studies that she linked plant tissue such as the bristles of a plumed seed to resemble the transparency of glass.  Prioritising sustainability she hopes that glass is favoured as a better alternative to plastic.  Plastic degrades as soon as it is manufactured and microplastics can’t be recycled, which highlights the need to ban all non-biodegradable plastic.  Her still-life photography looks to capture the deliberation of the spent flower to highlight a unique concealment of the delicate detail of its form.

 

 

 

 

 

Untitled

For Life

Solo exhibition title Translucent

Title Segment Firring No2

Not Quite

Segment Furring

Notebook drawings

A Play, with Light - No 2

A Play, With Light - Wardain Case No1

Burnt

Dust

Construct and Support No 2

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