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Julia Rosa Clark | |
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 Photograph of the artist at Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape Town, 2015 | |
| Born | 24 August 1975 |
| Nationality | South African |
| Education | Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town |
| Known for | Painting |
Julia Rosa Clark (born 1975) [1] is a South African contemporary artist and educator [2] known for her "graphically complex, textually coded and colour-rich paper installations." [3]
Clark was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1975. She graduated with a Master of Fine Art Degree from the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town in 2004.
Clark has worked as an artist and curator, and has been featured in international exhibitions with works that range from lit-up suitcases to clothing to large wall installations. Her exhibits use the gallery floor, walls and ceiling as a canvas for her art. Often using found objects, her materials include children's toys, old boxes and paper cutouts. Clark describes her work altering these objects as a "device for coping with an overload of information or emotion". [4] Her 2004-2005 exhibition, A Million Trillion Gazillion, used various elements to explore the "changing nature of knowledge systems." With the help of other art students, Clark influenced traditional educational materials as illustrated books to portray the "in-congruence of an idealized world view with the failure and realities of our contemporary world." Three of her solo exhibitions act as a trilogy, looking into the fleeting nature of knowledge systems.
Another exhibition, Hypocrite's Lament (2007) focused on "response cycles of addition and destruction", [5] (2007). Her following exhibition, Fever Jubilee (2010) focused on growth, with plants made of paper cut-outs that acted as a space for Clark and her family to relax with the audience. The final piece of the trilogy focused directly on science and education, featuring installations that allude to concepts in physics and philosophy.
In addition to her solo exhibitions, Clark has been featured in numerous group exhibitions and collaborations. She has also curated and co-curated numerous shows including Big Wednesday (2008) and Sing into my Mouth (2009) at the whatiftheworld gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town.
Clark lectures at numerous South African universities. Clark has taught at her alma mater Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town a variety of classes including lower and upper-level print-media, painting and drawing classes. She has also acted as a lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town School of Photography, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, and other art specialized high-schools.
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