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Drag/ged Objects (Darkroom Edition)

By Elly Clarke 2024 - 2026

Towards the close of my PhD I was fortunate to be selected as an Artist in Residence at The Banff Centre in Canada. There I began a new series of work that involved creating contact sheets and 35mm negatives from digital phone & camera photos and printing them in the darkroom, sometimes taking the objects that are portrayed in the images into the darkroom with me. [Wig, Shoe, Necklace…]

A series of new work is still being created and relates to the general archiving I am doing of my multi bodied drag alter ego #Sergina, who pranced around on stages and screens for nearly 15 years. I am installing these prints alongside and entangled with the objects that inspired them. 

Photo: Elly Clarke

Data Collection Instruments (Dragged Photographic Evidence) - as shown at The Right to Protest, September 2025

Data Collection Instruments (Dragged Photographic Evidence) - as shown at The Right to Protest, September 2025

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Katharine van der Werff and her husband at their home in London

Curtain (Moscow to Novosibirsk)

Dragging the Archive - a personal re:encounter with Franklin Furnace's Cyber Beginnings by Elly Clarke

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