Fossils and Stars

Eleanor Clare and Dillan Marsh are an artist duo. We gather source materials such as archival research, music scores and field recording, together with experiments in different media, visual motifs and writing based on personal experience. We connect our lived experience and fantasy worlds to mythology, location or cultural phenomenon.

Installations of shifting atmospheres perform cycles of emotions, thoughts and feelings. As in a flashback – when the past is suddenly imprinted upon the present – transitions in sound, video, narrative fragments, musical styles and timbre of voice might shift perceptions of physical works.

We understand our collaboration as a dialogue between making and reflecting, from the tactile process of moulding clay, to the cerebral task of putting felt experience into language – as with feedback between brain and body.

selected solo shows

2023 Hatfuls Capfuls Three Bushel Bagfuls, Galleri Christinegård, No
2021 Visus Tactus Gustus, Hordaland Kunstsenter, No
2019 The Poacher’s Lament &Other Half Heard Tales, YSP, UK
2018 The Poacher’s Dream, USF Verftet, No
2017 Through The Gabbling Gateway, Galleri BOA, No
2016 Adventure Island, Archipelago, HKS, No
2015 The Travels of the Toucher, Assembly House, UK
2015 Two Poke Holes and the Art of the Toucher, ESW, UK
2014 Undercurrents, Deuxpiece Basel, Switz

selected group shows

2022 Es tierra melancolía perros, Quimera, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 PAB Lokal x Bergen Assembly, Belgin, No
2018 Cold Currents, Adiacenze, Italy
2017 Sofia Underground, National Palace of Culture, Bulgaria
2016 Partly Now, Partly Remembered, Parabol, Stifelsen 3,14, No
2015 Fama Fame, ASC Gallery London, UK
2013 Nothing About Trees, Bomb Factory, London, UK

selected residencies

2021 Kunstnarhuset Messen, No
2018 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
2017 URRA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 Metal, Chalkwell Hall, UK
2015 Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Scotland
2015 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK