Geoffrey Clarke RA
Prints and sculptures
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The sculptor Geoffrey Clarke RA (born 1924) was chosen as one of the artists to produce work for Coventry Cathedral after the second World War. A versatile artist he has worked in stained glass, silver and for his sculptural work, aluminium. On display in the Linton Court exhibition will be enamels, drawings, small scale sculpture, paintings, mono prints and etchings.
Like the Spanish artist Miro, Clarke developed his own language of signs and symbols to convey his ideas, his interest in signs stems from his younger days at various art schools in the North West of England. Clarke spent time at both Preston and Manchester Schools of Art (1940-2) before then serving in the RAF.
Moving to London, his first solo show came at the Gimpel Fils gallery in Davies Street in 1952. He was now at the Royal College of Art where he had moved into the Stained Glass department. Later in 1952 he was exhibited in the Venice Biennale, just two years before his thirtieth birthday.
At the end of the 1960s his sculptures were to feature in a British Sculpture exhibition at the Tate Gallery, and later a similar one at the Royal Academy, he became an Academician in 1975.
Clarke’s work, whilst held in high regard by those studying it, has not been widely exhibited.
Exhibitions have been held in East Anglia (Geoffrey has lived in Suffolk for many years) and at the Fine Art Society, where there was a retrospective exhibition in 2000. His work is to be found in the collections of:Tate Gallery, Arts Council Collection and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
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