Clare Flynn is a Scottish photographer and recent graduate of Glasgow School of Art. Flynn’s photographic practice is grounded in black and white, not for its nostalgia, but rather its ability to shape, contrast and trace the world. To slow down the look and provide room for what is felt rather than seen, she creates abstractions to resist the immediate.

 

The Fabric of Everything, is a meditation on impermanence and the unseen threads that bind us to the world and one another. Guided by experiences of grief and guilt Flynn found herself grasping for continuity and peace within a space. The exhibition considers how meaning is formed not through permanence, but through moments that pass, fracture and transform. The seascape connects this personal experience to the universal as individual grief is private however the sea is shared, ancient and collective. Flynn examines this expanse of the sea, the transient presence of birds in flight, and the quiet poetry of reflections in space. Reflections, especially, are central, not for what they show, but for what they distort, conceal or suggest. The Fabric of Everything proposes that what binds us is not solidity, but vulnerability, the shared experience of change, loss and longing.