Thomas A Clark

texts

From At Dusk & At Dawn

recent publications and biographical note

Thomas A Clark was born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1944.
His publications include A Still Life (The Jargon Society,
North Carolina 1977), Madder Lake (Coach House Press,
Toronto, 1981), The Tempers of Hazard (with Barry MacSweeney and Chris Torrance, Paladin, London 1993), Tormentil & Bleached Bones (Polygon, Edinburgh 1993), One Hundred Scottish Places (October, Eindhoven 1999), Distance & Proximity (Pocketbooks, Edinburgh 2000), The Path to the Sea (Arc, Todmorden 2005) and numerous small books and cards from his own Moschatel Press.

In an extension of some of the formal possibilities of poetry, Thomas A Clark's work often appears as site-specific installations in galleries, public spaces or in the landscape. These works have been seen at Camden Arts Centre, London; Musee d'Arte Moderne, Paris; Centro Culturale de Belem, Lisbon; Ein Hod Bienalle, Israel;
and on the Cotswold Way, Gloucestershire.

From 1986-2002, with the artist Laurie Clark, in Nailsworth,
Gloucestershire, he ran Cairn Gallery, one of the most respected small galleries of its time, showing minimal, conceptual and land art.

Thomas A Clark now lives in the fishing village of Pittenweem, in Fife.

contact

clark@cairneditions.co.uk

last updated November 3, 2006

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