Nuala Clarke is an Irish visual artist. She completed a BA in Fine Art Painting in NCAD in 1993 and afterwards moved to New York City to live and work. Currently represented by Sara Nightingale Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY. In 2007, Clarke received a fellowship to The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Mayo and began returning to Ireland. In 2013 she moved full time to the West of Ireland.
Clarke is currently drawing influence from Robert Boyles Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. She is working on Irish Moss of a Dead Man’s Skull, The Owl Circus, a book inspired by the experimental colour and health focussed work of Boyle and her experience as an abstract painter. Release date is late 2024.
Her work has been included in recent exhibitions, the touring exhibition Kwaidan – Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn, an exhibition of prints by Japanese and Irish-based artists, touring in Japan and Ireland in 24 and 25; The Ballinglen Museum of Art First Biennial Exhibition; Radiating Outwards Incrementally, a manual, Crystal Gandrud and Nuala Clarke, The Owl Circus, released April 2024. Clarkes work is held in many public and private collections worldwide. She has received grant funding from The Arts Council, Fingal County Council and Mayo County Council.
You will find her on Instagram and her website is nualaclarke.com.
“Inspired by Boyle: Experiments and Considerations Touching Colour”, June 2019
“An Artist’s Perspective”, June 2023
“Creativity – correlations between the work methods of an artist and a scientist”, May 2024
Nuala Clarke will be discussing the similarities and differences in the processes an artist and a scientist go through to do their work. Through many years of discussion with her brother Dr. David Clarke, an architect of future technology, she has seen how there is between them a similarity in the way a subject is initially approached, then a divergence in activity and discipline before a return to a position with quite similar conclusions. As always she will relate this to what she knows of Robert Boyle’s methods based on his accounts in his writing on colour.