CV

  • SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    2023
    Confluence, Northlight Gallery, Stromness
    Undulations, Birch Tree Gallery, Edinburgh
    2020
    The Clearing, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness 
    2010
    Coalesce: Drawing from the Natural History Collections, Edinburgh University 
    2007
    The Subtle Ether, CAST Gallery, Hobart, touring to Devonport Regional Gallery, Australia
    Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, video installation, two person show with Nick Cobb
    2005
    The Subtle Ether, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, UK
    Still Life with Rory Macbeth, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, Switzerland
    2004 
    Reach, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys, Wales
    The Sea Inside, IAAB Atelier, Basel, Switzerland
    2003
    Enchanté, Villa Olga, Montpellier, France
    2001
    Staring Out to Sea, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
    Trying to Come Home, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia 
    2000
    Remote Sensing, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

  • GROUP EXHIBITIONS

    2023
    Orcadia, Brown’s Gallery, Inverness
    Drawing In, An Tobar, Tobermory, Isle of Mull
    2022
    Research + Practice, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
    2021
    Cutlog | Essential Travel, Society of Scottish Artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
    2020
    Changing Tides | Tides Changing, Society of Scottish Artists, online exhibition
    2013 - 15
    Felt Presence Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania. Touring Australia nationally
    2015
    5%...As Far As the Eye Can See, Allenheads Contemporary Art, Northumberland, UK
    2012
    Poetry Loops, short video screenings, StAnza Poetry Festival, St Andrews, Scotland
    2011
    Wonders of the Invisible World, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland
    Environmental Dialogues, Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh
    2010
    Gentle Actions: Art Ecology Action, Kunstnerneshus Olso, Norway
    2009
    Rising Tide, The Arts and Ecological Ethics, Stanford University
    Natural Balance: Art & Ecology, Girona International Land Art Meet, Catalonia
    Everything Must Go, The Royal Standard, Liverpool
    Stockholm Art Fair, presented by Echo, Stockholm, Sweden
    Echo Presents: Pudding, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
    2008
    ET4U Contemporary Visual Arts Centre Vestjylland, Denmark, exhibition and symposium
    Echo Presents: All Can screening, Edinburgh
    Pilot Archive, Cockpit Arts, Deptford X, London
    Perth Visual Arts Forum, Dunkeld, Scotland, Commissioned artist and keynote speaker
    Contemporary Visual Arts Centre Vestjylland, Denmark, exhibition and international symposium
    ‘Slow Time’, Tasmanian School of Visual and Performing Arts, Launceston, Australia
    2007 
    Survey, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
    Radiance 07: Festival of Light, Glasgow
    2006
    Into the Light of Things, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
    Projektor 06, Café Gallery Projects, Southwark Park, London
    Magazine 06, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop 
    ArtFutures Scotland 06, Glasgow Art Fair
    BBC 37 Seconds Artists Film and Video Programme, Big Screen Liverpool
    2005
    15th Mostyn Open Exhibition, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
    Forest, Wolverhampton Art Gallery touring exhibition, touring to Aberdeen Art Gallery, York Art Gallery, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, and Oriel Davies Gallery, Wales. 
    Invisible Fields, Street Level, Glasgow International, touring to An Tuireann, Isle of Skye, KU Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia, and Yokohama Art Museum, Japan
    2004
    Venti Giorni in Europa, Galleria Cesare Manzo, Pescara, Italy
    Pilot:1 International Art Forum, Old Limehouse Town Hall, London
    Inside Out:1, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh 
    TGOZ, Travelling Gallery, Touring Scotland
    Feast of Silenus, The Embassy, Edinburgh
    Forest, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
    2003
    Artists from Nimes Biennale, Oporto, Portugal
    3rd European Biennale of Contemporary Art, Nimes, France
    E-Space, Ann Tuireann Gallery, Portree, Isle of Skye
    Fluid, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, exhibition tour venues:  Howard Gardens Gallery, UWIC, Cardiff
    Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University and Middlesborough Art Gallery

  • AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

    2023
    Royal Scottish Academy MacRobert Trust Art Award for Painting
    2021
    Royal Scottish Academy William Littlejohn Award for excellence and innovation in water-based media
    2021
    Fresh Ink: National Library of Scotland, commissioned writer
    2020
    Society of Authors Grant
    2019
    Balfour Hospital, Kirkwall, artwork for internal glazing and wall in hub of new build hospital
    2018 
    Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award
    2017
    Arts Foundation Award, shortlisted
    2017
    Samuel Rutherford Thesis Prize for most distinguished thesis in English Literature
    2014 
    Scottish Education Trust Award, to attend Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference
    2011 - 17
    George Buchanan Scholarship, University of St Andrews, PhD scholarship
    2010
    Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, research grant
    2009
    Scottish Arts Council, Creative and Professional Development Award
    2008
    Perth Visual Arts Forum, Dunkeld, Perthshire, commissioned artist
    2005
    Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, ‘Sky Flowers’ video installation
    2001 - 5
    New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, permanent sculptural installation in new building
    2000-4
    Auchterarder Community School, architectural collaboration for secondary school, received 
    special mention in Saltire Society Arts and Crafts in Architecture Awards, A Civic Trust mention, 
    used as a Movement for Innovation demo project, included in OECD World Exemplary Schools Compendium, featured in Scottish Executive’s ‘School Design-Building Our Future’ programme and shortlisted for GIA Award and Dynamic Place Award.
    2004 
    SAC Artists Award, Hope Scott Trust Award
    2003
    Stills Gallery Research and Training Award
    2002
    SAC National Lottery Capital Grant Award for architectural project with Anderson Bell
    Christie and PACE, designs for Auchterarder Community School, Perthshire
    2001
    RSA Art for Architecture Award, with Anderson Bell Christie architects

  • QUALIFICATIONS

    2017
    PhD CREATIVE WRITING, University of St Andrews, School of English
    Thesis title: ‘The Subtle Ether: Writing into the Space Between,’ Supervisor John Burnside
    Awarded Samuel Rutherford Thesis Prize for most distinguished thesis in English Literature
    1993 - 1995
    POSTGRADUATE HIGHER DIPLOMA IN FINE ART (Distinction)
    Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
    1990 - 1991
    BRITISH COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIP BELGRADE ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, YUGOSLAVIA
    Postgraduate Specialisation in Printmaking
    1985 - 1989
    BA (HONS) DRAWING AND PAINTING (TAPESTRY) 
    Edinburgh College of Art

  • RESIDENCIES

    March 2021
    BANFF CENTRE FOR THE ARTS, SPRING WRITERS RETREAT
    Online session
    October 2020 
    COVE PARK RESIDENCY
    Argyll and Bute
    July 2015
    CAMP BREAKDOWN BREAK DOWN
    Two week residential workshop Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire
    Jan - Apr 2015
    TIMESPAN PARADIGM NORTH ARTIST RESIDENCY
    Development Residency Timespan Arts and Heritage Centre, Helmsdale, Sutherland
    August 2013 
    MIGRATING ART ACADEMY: 5%...AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
    Allenheads Contemporary Art, Northumbria, workshop with 12 selected international
    April 2008
    TRIANGLE ARTS TRUST INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS’ WORKSHOP, Hoy, Orkney
    Selected artist for residential workshop with 20 international artists
    April - Oct 2005
    WYSING ARTS CENTRE, Cambridgeshire
    Artist in Residence
    July - Dec 2004
    IAAB INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS RESIDENCY PROGRAMME
    Basel, Switzerland
    Jan - July 2004
    STILLS GALLERY RESIDENT ARTIST
    Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
    June - July 2003 
    LA VILLA OLGA, Montpellier, France
    Residency to create installation for solo exhibition
    Jan - July 2000
    SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL AUSTRALIA RESIDENCY
    Artist in Residence at Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, Tasmania
    Aug - Sep 1999
    SCOTTISH SCULPTURE WORKSHOP, Lumsden, Aberdeenshire
    'Bridge Project' collaborative residency
    April - July 1999
    GRIZEDALE, CUMBRIA  
    Visual Artist in Residence
    Aug 97 - March 98
    HELEN CHADWICK FELLOWSHIP, OXFORD UNIVERSITY/BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME
    Senior Research Fellow, Ruskin School of Art and British School at Rome

  • PUBLICATIONS

    2021
    Treading Water, commissioned by the National Library of Scotland
    www.nls.uk/fresh-ink/samantha-clark/
    2021
    How to Hold a Cloud, creative nonfiction essay in Dark Mountain: Requiem
    2020 
    The Clearing: A Memoir of Art, Family and Mental Health London, Little, Brown

    2020
    Sink, video-essay, Dark Mountain online 
    dark-mountain.net/watching-the-world-outside-my-door/
    2016
    Nothing Really Matters: Jean-Paul Sartre, Negation and Nature, Environmental Ethics, Vol 38:3 pp 327-346. Pub: Centre for Environmental Philosophy, University of North Texas
    2015
    Dark Matter, creative nonfiction text and photographs, pamphlet published by Timespan Arts and Heritage, Helmsdale, Sutherland
    2015
    Ether, creative nonfiction essay in Dark Mountain 9: The Humbling
    2015
    Review of ‘Petro-Subjectivity: Deindustrialising Our Sense of Self’ by Brett Bloom, ecoartscotland Occasional Papers Series, Issue 4 (2015) ISSN 2043-8052
    2014
    Things Unseen, essay and interview with Anne Bevan (UHI) Antennae: Journal of Nature and Visual Culture, Issue 29 Nov 2014
    2014 
    The Content of Nothing, with Judy Spark, ecoartscotland Occasional Papers Series, Issue 3 (2014) ISSN 2043-8052 
    2014 
    The Curator’s Room, creative nonfiction essay in Terrain.Org A Journal of the Built + Natural Environment, 2 December 2014
    2013
    Strange Strangers and Uncanny Hammers: Morton’s ‘Ecological thought’ and the Phenomenological Tradition, Journal article for Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, Journal of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, 17:2, pp 98-108, Pub: Taylor and Francis 
    2013
    Employability and the Fine Art Student, journal article, themed issue of Transactions: Journal of Centre for Education in the Built Environment, Higher Education Academy
    2010
    ‘Contemporary Art and Environmental Aesthetics’ Environmental Values Vol 19:3, pp 351–371, Pub: The White Horse Press
    2007
    The Subtle Ether, co-author Francis McKee. Pub: Wysing Arts, CAST, ISBN 09539-222-2-7
    2000
    Remote Sensing, exhibition catalogue with text, co-author Bryony Rhodes, Pub: University of Tasmania 

  • CATALOGUE ESSAYS ON MY WORK BY OTHER AUTHORS

    2013
    Felt Presence Exhibition Catalogue essay, Dr Ellie Ray, ISBN: 978-0-9872560-2-7
    2009
    3 islands, Pub: Triangle Arts Trust, ISBN 9 780954 578787
    2009
    View for Architecture, Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka and Yuki Tamura, Kyoto Univ. of Art and Design
    2007
    Radiance 07, DVD publication, Pub: Street Level Gallery, commentary: Malcolm Dickson
    2007
    Survey, exhibition catalogue, Pub: Royal Scottish Academy, ISBN 978-0-905783-12-3
    2006
    Into the Light of Things, exhibition catalogue. Pub: Angel Row Gallery, ISBN 0905634
    2006
    Magazine, exhibition catalogue, essay Colin Greenslade, pub: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
    2005
    AN magazine, Sep issue Artist’s story (republished Sep 06) 
    2004
    TGOZ, exhibition catalogue, essay Amanda Catto, Pub: Travelling Gallery
    2004
    Invisible Fields, exhibition catalogue
    2004
    Stills: Artists’ residencies 2003/4, catalogue essay Iliyana Nedkova, ISBN 0 906458 34 X
    2003
    Forest, exhibition catalogue, essays Roger Kelly, Yvonne Aburrow, Pub: Wolverhampton Art Gallery
    2001
    Fluid, exhibition catalogue, essays David Hopkins, Pub: Wolverhampton Art Gallery
    2000
    Pivot V: About Photography, catalogue essay Simon Cuthbert, ISBN 0 646 40369 9
    2000
    Remote Sensing, sole author, exhibition catalogue, Pub: University of Tasmania

  • ARTWORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

    National Library of Scotland
    Royal Scottish Academy
    University College London
    NHS Lothians
    NHS Orkney