Lam Vi Ki Clare

Clare is a visual artist based in Singapore with a background in painting. Her practice spans drawing, sculpture and figurative painting, centering on the male body as a metaphorical proxy to reflect on themes of distance, desire and the complexities of representation.

Working primarily with oil, Clare’s paintings examine the gaze and emotional tension through contorted, often vulnerable bodies that navigate a metaphysical void. Her current body of work draws from mythological figures such as Prometheus and Icarus to explore existential encounters—anguish, ambition, grief—and questions how masculinity, emotion and struggle are performed and perceived.

Influenced by classical painting traditions, Clare also references the visceral intensity of artists like Francis Bacon and Jenny Saville. Her research considers the aesthetics of discomfort, the politics of looking and the boundaries between intimacy and estrangement in figurative image-making.