Q. Introduce yourself – name, nickname, where you were born, how old you are, where you live, what your job is or what you study
A. My name’s Arabella Clarke. I don’t have a nickname, as all shortenings of my name are shit. I was born in Maldon, Essex. I live in Camden. I work at the Victoria and Albert Museum as a sales and information assistant/ gallery assistant/ admin assistant.

Q. What do you do in your spare time? What are you passionate about?
A. In my spare time I like to go to galleries and museums and hang out in gothic haunts, pubs and clubs, listening to music and going to gigs. I like dancing, especially ballet, contemporary and other dancing like Egyptian dancing. I do gothic horror/ fetish/ fantasy art, using photography and sculpture as my medium and am currently working in collaboration with two other gothic artists.

Q. What is you most treasured possession?
A. Well… that would probably be my John Deitrich poster- I met him a year ago at my friend’s art exhibition in Holborn. Unfortunately, I messed the poster up a bit but I won’t go into too greater detail as to how and why it got messed up, as it’s a bit rude, but nethertheless, I still have it on my bedroom wall.

Q. Which living person would you most like to meet?
A. That would be a close draw between Tracey Emin and H. R. Geiger.

Q. Name your top three bands.
A.Fear Factory- they’re really intelligent and individual, Christian Death- the female singer has such an amazing voice- I’ve never heard anything like it! And The Mission- it’s good to dance to.

Q. Name your top three movies.
A. “The Lost Boys”- it’s a cool film. “Witches Sabbath”- it’s a great sexy fetish feminist film. “Last of the Mohicans”- it’s a true romantic.

Q. What is the most important book you have read? (can be non-vampire)
A. That would have to be, “Slaves of Isis”, by Madam de Morville. I haven’t read a book for years, ‘cause only images obtain my interest. I cannot stare at a book full of words, unless it has pictures in it- I can’t concentrate and my mind wanders off and starts thinking about other things. Slaves of Isis is a really important book for me ‘cause it taught me that there are still books out there that I can grab my interest for more than a milli second! The pictures are great and the description in it is mental and amazing!

Q. Which is your favourite horror/vampire book?
A. As I said, I don’t really read books, so I would say that the closest thing to it that I have ever read is the first three pages of Dracula. I like reading comics, like, “Dog Witch”, it’s twisted.

Q. Do you think vampires are real? Explain
A. No not physically, but yes spiritually. I haven’t yet come across anyone that lives up to my idea of what a real vampire would be like. I had a weird dream that I went to a place place that I had never been to before with people that I knew and also people that I didn’t know there. A few months later, I was in that place that I had never seen before that I had dreamed of and with the person that I knew and the other person that I didn’t know. It freaked me out. Mind you, there is a mirror in the British Galleries in the Victoria and Albert Museum That has sections in the mirror and as you walk past, in one of the sections you cannot see Yourself- there is no reflection on anyone. This floor is meant to be haunted. Strange.

Q. What were your reasons for joining the London Vampyre Group? What do you want to get out of being a member?
A. I thought I’d join ‘cause you were a nice bunch of people. I wanted to get to know a few More people and find different places to hang out and things to do.

Q. What is your favourite word?
A. Fuck- at classic moments, when I want people to fuck off.

Q. What is your greatest fear?
A. Not being able to wear P.V.C. of course!

Q. What is the most important thing life has taught you?
A. I spent too much time stuck in a boarding school, not being allowed to go out at all and being dictated to about what I can or cannot do. It taught me freedom- I live for freedom and to fight for it. To make your life happy and to do what you enjoy, regardless of money, qualifications and societal stigma.

Q. Give a song lyric/quote from a film or person or a passage/sentence from a book that you feel embodies your approach to life
A. “Fear Factory”, off the, “Obsolete” albumn- “Fear me not, but fear my hell… Those of You who dare to stray I will tear your mind away…Falling victim from neglect Designed Thoughts and intellect Forgotten and displaced… I am nothing, I feel nothing… Man is Obsolete! Our world, obsolete! Erased, obsolete! Erased, extinct! Obsolete!... I’ve had the poison leak into my skin And it corroded my heart away”.

Q. Do you have a livejournal or personal webpage that we can link to?
A. I have an a gothic horror/ fetish/ fantasy art website: www.terminatrixart.com