Clare Twomey
she/her
Drum Loch
'Drum Loch' refers to a found copper water tank from my family home, reimagined and transformed into an earth-sounding drum. The name evokes both resonance and landscape: a vessel of memory, containment, and sediment. Its weathered surface reads like a map, pointing to land, body, and the quiet accumulations of time.
Copper also carries personal weight, linked to Wilson’s disease, a hereditary condition in my family where copper becomes toxic, silently building up in the body. This paradox of copper as both essential and dangerous runs through the work.
The use of traditional print methods, such as chine collé, a technique that fuses delicate papers to heavier surfaces during printing, alongside experimental processes like scotch tape transfers, sculpture, and sound-based work, all resist precision. The work is an excavation: of the body, of the domestic, and of ancestral silence. Copper becomes a metaphor for inherited fragility and endurance.
