Samantha Clark is a visual artist and writer based in Orkney whose work responds to the islands’ dynamic natural environment of wind, sky and sea. In particular, the element of water has become a focus of contemplation that reveals the deep interdependence and impermanence of the living world. Sam’s practice encompasses writing, drawing, installation, video and permanent works in the public realm, with painting, and the meditative quality of repetition as her primary current focus. Sam trained at Edinburgh College of Art (1985-89), Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts (1991) and the Slade School of Art (1993-6). She has an MA in Environmental Philosophy (UCLAN, 2011) and a PhD in Creative Writing (St Andrew’s University, 2017). She has carried out numerous residencies, commissions and exhibitions, including a commission to create a 30m mural for the Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall in 2019, residencies at Oxford University, the British School at Rome (1991), the University of Tasmania (2000) and IAAB International Exchange Studios in Basel (2004). Her first book ‘The Clearing’ was published by Little, Brown in 2020. In 2023 she received the inaugural RSA MacRobert Trust Art Award for Painting.
https://www.samanthaclark.net/