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