In her photographic practice Clare explores ideas of performance and gesture to interrogate and subvert dominant modes of representation. Her work is informed by feminist theory, and presents an alternate and often awkward experience of subjectivity and the female body, usually the artists’ own.

Recent projects have engaged with site specificity, involving works that are captured and displayed within the same environment. A central interest within her practice is the exploration of performance documentation, specifically how the camera can act as a collaborator, rather than mute witness, to the performer.

In this image from Clare Rae the focal point of the image is the lady on the chair. The rule of thirds is used to centre the lady in the middle of the image, because there is nothing else in the image it means that we are only looking at the woman. The room being bland and empty gets us to think about the emotions that the lady may feeling such as lonely, sad and maybe lost. The dull light coming from the window creates a sad solemn feeling in the image. It may also having something to do with the feminist theory as it says ‘Her work is informed by feminist theory, and presents an alternate and often awkward experience of subjectivity and the female body’. This can relate to the image above as the woman is stood leaning in an awkward position.