Vicky Clarke was one of our four Convention House residency artists in 2022, funded by Garfield Weston Foundation.

Vicky Clarke is a sound and electronic media artist from Manchester, UK. Working with sound sculpture, DIY electronics and human-machine systems, she explores our relationship to technology through sonic materiality.

Winner of the Oram Award 2020, for the last two years she has been artist in residence at NOVARS, University of Manchester exploring musique concrete and machine learning in collaboration with PRiSM, Royal Northern College of Music.

This residency built on her AI research trip as part of UK-RUSSIA Year of Music and project ‘MATERIALITY’ exploring sound sculpture to interface the physical and digital, collaborating with the National Graphene Institute. Her work has featured on SONIC FUTURES: How Technology is Guiding Electronic Music (British Council) and FACT magazine. She has also performed and exhibited with National Science & Media Museum, MUTEK and CTM. Vicky is an AMPLIFY DAI artist, an international network promoting women in sound and digital arts, co-director of Noise Orchestra promoting DIY music culture and demystifying tech and associate artist at FutureEverything.

Vicky was also one of four Convention House residents who we worked with as part of our Convention House Residency, funded by Garfield Weston Foundation.