Born in Zimbabwe, 1946
Education:
BA (Fine Arts) University of the Witwatersrand
MA (Fine Arts) University of Pretoria
TTHD Johannesburg College of Education
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1975 South African Association of Arts, Pretoria
1981 Department of Fine Arts, University of Pretoria
1982 Ernst de Jong Studio Gallery, Pretoria
1983 Gowlett Gallery, Cape Town
1984 University of Natal, Jock Leyden Gallery, Durban; Jack Heath, Gallery, Pietermaritzburg
1985 Gallery 21, Johannesburg
1989 Gallery International, Cape Town
1990 Stegman Gallery, UOFS, Bloemfontein; William Humphries Gallery, Kimberley
1992 Pretoria Art Museum, `The Stones Revisited', a retrospective exhibition
1996 Camberwell College of Arts, London
1999 Old Arts Gallery, University of Pretoria ,‘Inside Outside’
2008 Common Ground, Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria, with Jessica Clarke
2011 Up Close, Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria, with Jessica Clarke, October - November 2011
2013 To Gather, Association of Arts Pretoria, August - September 2013
2015 The Space Between, Association of Arts Pretoria - September - October 2015
2019 Still Life Still Places, Tina Skukan Gallery, Pretoria, with Jessica Clarke
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1982 Cape Town Triennial (Award winner)
1982 Kunst Aus Südafrika, Bonn, Germany
1985 BMW `Tributaries' Exhibition, Johannesburg and Germany
1985 Cape Town Triennial
1987 National Drawing Exhibition, Grahamstown
1989 IX International Biennale of Art, Valparaiso, Chile
1990 National Drawing Exhibition, Grahamstown, Johannesburg
1990 Grand Prix International D'Arts Plastiques, France
1991 Cape Town Triennial
1993 Momentum Art Exhibition, Pretoria Art Museum
1993 Naledi: Art from South Africa exhibition, Deutsche Welle, Cologne, Germany
1995 Pretoria at the Africus Biennale, (SA Ass. of Arts) ABSA Gallery, Johannesburg
1995 Panoramas of Passage: Changing Landscapes of South Africa, Grahamstown Festival and Cafritz Galleries, Washington, USA
1995 Exhibition of Drawings: Masters and Protégé, Pretoria Art Museum
1997 Transferring the Charge: Printmaking Practice and Processes in a Transforming South Africa, Grahamstown Festival and Johannesburg Art Gallery
1998 Klein Karoo National Arts Festival: The Landscape - Unity and Diversity, Oudtshoorn
2001 Land, UNISA Art Gallery, Pretoria
2002 A4 Airmail Art: Freemantle Arts Centre, W. Australia
2004 Enviromental Visions, Ass. of Arts, Pretoria
2005 Art from Two Metropoles, Fried Contemporary, Pta.
2007 Karoo Art House
2007 Pelmama Collection Exhibition, Bloemfontein
2008 Visuality/Commentary, University of Pretoria
2010 Land: Diversity and Unity Ass.of Arts, Pretoria and Hyderabad, India
Annual exhibitions, Strydom Gallery, George
Annual Art Alive Exhibitions, WPPS, Pretoria
2020 Diaspora group exhibition White River Gallery
Collections:
South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Pretoria Art Museum
Durban Art Gallery
Johannesburg Art Gallery
William Humphries Gallery, Kimberley
Oliewenhuis Collection, Bloemfontein
Pelmama Collection, Oliewenhuis Museum
Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg
Anne Bryant Art Gallery, East London
Technikon Collections: Pretoria and Bloemfontein
University Collections: Pretoria, Witwatersrand
Orange Free State, RAU, South Africa, Stellenbosch
Potchefstroom, Western Cape
CSIR Collection, Pretoria
MTN Collection, Johannesburg
Telkom, Johannesburg
Human Sciences Research Council Collection, Pta.
Department of Foreign Affairs, Bonn, Germany
Mpumalanga Provincial Collection, Nelspruit
BMW Collection, Germany
Sasol Collection, Johannesburg
Rembrandt van Rijn Art Foundation, Stellenbosch
Rand Merchant Bank, Johannesburg
Klerksdorp Municipal Art Collection
Benoni Municipal Collection
Federated Insurance Group, Johannesburg
Wooltru Group Collection, Cape Town
ABSA Collection, Johannesburg
Books by JFC Clarke published by the Leopardstone Press
The Painted Garden of Nukain Mabuza, 2013 ISBN 978-0-620-56864-7
The Home Art of Nukain Mabusa, 2001 ISBN 0-620-28171-5
A Glimpse into Marabastad, 2008 ISBN 978-0-20-40658-1
Inside Out, 2010 ISBN 978-0-620-45038-6
References
SA Arts Calendar Vol 7, 1982
Bulletin Pretoria Art Museum, April 1983
Art and Artists of South Africa by Esme Berman, published by AA Balkema, 1983
Habitat No.56, 1983
Looking at South African Art: A guide to the study and appreciation of art by Frieda Harmson, published by J L van Schaik, 1985.
Dictionary of South African Artists by G. Ogilvie published by Everard Read, 1988
SA Arts Calendar Vol 15, 1990
Art in Outline by Merle Huntley, published by Oxford University Press, 1992
Image and Text Department of Fine Arts, University of Pretoria, 1992
Acta Academica: Earth and world in two place images: an interpretation of John Clarke's Stockade I and II by Estelle Maré, 1995
Printmaking in a Transforming South Africa by Phillipa Hobbs and Elizabeth Rankin, published by David Phillip, Johannesburg and Cape Town, 1997
Visuality/Commentary: Catalogue of the Centenary art exhibition of the Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2008
Look Away Magazine John Clarke, Space Traveller by Frederick Clarke; Issue 11, Quarter 2, 2009
Various newspaper articles