The Glittering Centrepiece of the Whole Fucking World (2023) velvet, copper, expanding foam, scaffolding. 160cm x 100cm

Photo Credit @JulesLister

This work is constructed from hand sewn velvet representations of the human brain arranged as a ‘brain garden’ where colours are organised into groups, or tribes, or displayed as lone actors existing amongst those tribes.

The work is inspired by Clements’ ongoing research into visualisations of the brain, how we value knowledge, both human and otherwise, concerns about the brain being the last bastion of privacy (particularly in light of the advent/threat of brain chip technology) the synchronicity of brain waves between like-minded people and the reclamation of land via plant intelligences that science is only just beginning to understand.