Chris F Clark

Chris F Clark
b 1972, Northumberland, UK


Based in Whitstable, Kent, multi-disciplined artist Chris F Clark uses her art practice largely as a canvas for self expressive gestures. Self-taught and self-disciplined, working mainly within the realms of collage and painting, Chris produces powerful, playful, and often ambiguous works that open up much in the way of visual intrigue to the curious mind of the viewer.
Her work offers exploration and insight - into personal progress, identity, belief systems & ethics, self-realisation and investigation of spiritual practice and how these experiences mould together and intertwine in our everyday lives, leading to change, growth and inner development.
Recent works embrace and alternate between the abstract - with energetic, bold colour brushstrokes and marks; and the neo-expressive - the repetitive use of a ghostlike, unidentifiable figure with a now signature-style snippet of appropriated text collaged into the piece or words scrawled with oil stick. These paintings often suggest fragility and the unspoken challenges of complex human interactions and relationships, played out through spontaneous application of paint to surface.
Chris’ work invites us to take what we need to fr...

Self-Taught Artist

Recent exhibitions:
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November/December 2016
Grierson Gallery, Sevenoaks
"Soul Holes (repair study)"
Solo exhibition unveiling this substantial series of 50 small scale paintings, produced over a period of 8 months during 2016.
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September 2016
Maidstone Art Market
A one day event with 80 exhibiting artists, organised by professional artists' co-operative Making Art Work
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September 2016
Sassoon Gallery, Folkestone
'Animalia'
A curated group show with selected artists, including Fleur Alston, Dorcas Casey, Rich Cutler, Angela Wooi, Andrew Bruce and more
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August 2016
The Horsebridge Art Centre, Whitstable
'Skin'
A curated group show by women artists, organised and hosted by the art collective Pandora's Other Box
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July 2016
Below 65 Gallery, Maidstone
'Now.....Again'
Joint show with Margate based artist Barbara Antinoro
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May/June 2016
Maidstone Museum & Bentliff Gallery, Maidstone
'Time'
Group show by professional artists' co-operative Making Art Work
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April 2016
Sun Pier House Gallery, Chatham
The Contemporary Open
A curated Group show of contemporary work by selected artists

December 2015
Below 65 Gallery, Maidstone
'All Cut Up'
Solo show of prints and original collage work

Octob...