British artist Judy Clark works in drawing, painting, assemblage & relief. Her material toolkit includes photographic imagery, plaster, fluid inks, graphite and acrylics.

Clark's drawing series made between 2010-2013 explored the distortion of the body through forms of exercise, including yoga. They show the reach towards an ideal body form alongside the effort of making the body work towards this idea. From 2013-15 sectional images of images of human skin and hair have added a new direction and most recently, from 2017, the classic mono-printing process using glass and liquid colour has brought a new abstraction combined with rapid gesture.

Works on canvas use Clark’s original photo images transferred directly onto canvas then worked into with paint, often using rapid gestural motion. These paintings explore the way light falls and the eye sees and remembers, making a non-linear mix of impressions. Smaller works on canvas grew from working experimentally with a combination of photographic and painted imagery looking at effects of light on body-outline and  the resulting fragmentation of the image.

Judy Clark’s work is held in several national collections including Tate Britain and Pallant House Chichester. The work has been included in curated exhibitions in the UK and internationally, most frequently in the context of work about the female body and attitudes to it. For more information see selected Bibliography below

Kathy Battista, Renegotiating the Body, Feminist Art in 1970s London, Tauris, 2012
Alicia Foster, Tate Women Artists, Tate Publishing, 2004
John A Walker, Left Shift: Radical Art in Britain, Tauris, 2001
Catalogue, Live in Your Head, Whitechapel Art Gallery 2000