Individual Residencies
2022 | Kate Clayton
I am a queer performance artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. I work collaboratively, collectively and individually. My focus is on the visibility of older women, in what is, in part, an attempt to claim agency for the over-60s and 70s.
My methodology includes intergenerational friendship and the collaborative process. Artistic personas include Silver Swimmer, Art Scrubber, Bus Pass, Pearl Compost and Constance Spry, performed in various contexts and environments: public spaces, galleries, domestically, in cabaret and within the landscape. My practice exists under the overall banner of ‘NOT DEAD YET’.
In Collemacchia I am developing Silver Swimmer by researching a trip to the east or west coast of Italy, engaging a ‘photographer’ through networking to photograph the persona as she stands on the coast. The sea behind her. The rest of her life in front of her. A marker in time.