LET ’ER RIP

Works by Clive Knights

Isle of Tears
Collage, 18” x 18”

The Formation of a Cloud
Collage, 18” x 18”

Why Fly?
Collage, 18” x 18”

About the artist

Clive Knights is an English collagist, printmaker and creator of festival structures based in
Portland, Oregon. He is represented by the gallerist Laura Vincent in Portland’s Pearl District.
Since 2021 he has had 3 solo shows of his collages and monotype prints in Portland, and solo
shows at Sacripante Gallery in Rome, Italy (May 2023) and at the Muscarelle Museum of Art in
Williamsburg, Virginia (February through May 2024). He has exhibited work in over 40 group shows in
multiple US states and overseas, including England, Scotland, France, Spain, Poland, Belgium,
Slovenia, Estonia, Norway, Ukraine, Italy, and Colombia. In April 2022 he curated the
international exhibition Corporeal Gestures in Portland that included over 100 collages by more
than 100 artists from 22 countries. He designed and published the catalogue of all the work in
this show. In June 2022 he published his first monograph covering his own work from the
previous three years, titled Gestures from a Body at Work: Unsuccessful Attempts at Grasping
Eternity. The fine art publisher No Reply Press has recently published two limited-edition
handmade books, one with a short story titled “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by
Ursula K. Le Guin, accompanied by ten original collage interpretations, and one with a novella by
Leo Tolstoy titled “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” accompanied by ten original monoprints. In September
2024 he published a collaborative book of poems and collage charcaters with Canadian poet
Terriann Walling. He was the founding director of the School of Architecture at Portland State
University, Portland, Oregon, and his work is influenced by a career in architectural education,
by studies in the phenomenology of the human body, and by a fascination with the potential for
innovations of meaning embodied in poetic works.

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