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Clark, Samantha

b. 1967

Clark was the recipient of the RSA William Littlejohn Award for excellence and Innovation in a Water-based Medium, 2021. Originally trained at Edinburgh College of Art, Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts, and the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. In 2010 Clark gained an MA in Values in Environment from the Philosophy Department at the University of Central Lancashire. Clark was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews in 2017, a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2018 and a Cove Park Scottish Emerging Writer Residency in 2019. I received a Society of Authors Award in 2020 and a commission from the National Library of Scotland in 2021. Clark has taught at Edinburgh College of Art, the University of the West of Scotland, as well as guest lecturing at the Tasmanian School of Art, Central St Martins and Gray’s School of Art. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and provides online tutoring for the University of Hertfordshire and teach occasionally at the University of the Highlands and Islands. I have carried out residencies at the British School at Rome, The University of Oxford, Grizedale Forest, Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Stills Gallery, IAAB International Residency Programme in Basel, Wysing Arts Centre, and Timespan Arts and Heritage in Helmsdale. I have been commissioned to make major public art works for The Balfour Hospital, Kirkwall, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Auchterarder Community School. Clark has also been the recipient of several awards for her art. Her first book ‘The Clearing; A Memoir of Art, Family and Mental Health’, was published by Little, Brown in 2020.



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