Samantha Clark

RSA Select

Saturday 5th September - Saturday 24th October 2026

Lower and Upper Galleries

Samantha Clark is a visual artist and writer based in Orkney. Her practice has evolved over thirty years through textile, writing, drawing, installation, video and permanent works in the public realm, with painting as her primary current focus. Shaped by Orkney’s dynamic natural environment of wind, water and sky, Sam’s process is a slow and meditative practice, an accretion of simple marks and layered washes from which intricate forms emerge that resemble sea foam, cloud formations or wave patterns.

Samantha Clark

Night Waves

Acrylic on aluminium panel

90 x 110cm

£3,800

Plunge

Acrylic and aluminium leaf on aluminium panel

90 x 11xm

£3,800

Crevice

Acrylic on cradled board, framed in limed oak

51 x 61 cm

£1500

Sam trained at Edinburgh College of Art (1985-89), Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts (1991) and the Slade School of Art (1993-6). She has carried out numerous residencies, commissions and exhibitions, including a commission for the Balfour Hospital in Kirkwall in 2019, residencies at Oxford University, the British School at Rome (1991), the University of Tasmania (2000) and IAAB International Exchange Studios in Basel (2004). Her first book ‘The Clearing’ was published by Little, Brown in 2020. In 2023 she received the inaugural Royal Scottish Academy MacRobert Trust Art Award for Painting. In 2025 she undertook a residency at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan.

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