Julia Rosa Clark

Julia Rosa Clark works with elements of throwaway nostalgia to create witty, poignant collages and installations. Clark’s output function both to incite personal longing and to deconstruct general, though often specifically South African, cultural truths as learned through the information systems of the public education system, popular media and family legend.

Trained at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town, South Africa as a printmaker, Clark's media range from suitcases to paintings to skateboard ramps and pretty boys. Clark’s body of work, A Million Trillion Gazillion, involves obsessive, meticulous composites of cutouts from educational and popular cultural sources sprinkled with glitter, neon strings and UV lights.

Clark has consistently shown that she is capable of innovative, humorous and surprisingly delicate artworks. Her involvement in Public Eye as well as her roles as an active and skilled designer and respected teacher and lecturer place her firmly within the vibrant Cape Town art scene, and make her an influential and exciting figure therein.

Exhibitions:
Hypocrite's Lament & The Drain of Progress