Clare Kenny works with a variety of materials such as found objects and building materials yet her work almost always originates in photography, or simply just the idea of the photograph. Manipulation of materials including that of the photograph play a central role in her work and the questioning of their given roles especially that of the photograph and its job of presenting a factual record, or the truth. This is also present in her use of plastic and paints which are created in order to look like other materials such as marble or stone. Most of her objects and images seem to base themselves around the idea of real and fake, truth and lie; positives and the negative, as in photographic film. Their material transformations often leaving us with the question of what it is we are actually looking at, metal, marble, wood, etc.