The Australian artist taught Roland S Howard, dodged heroin in Melbourne and painted cover art for the Bad Seeds. He reflects on the past 50 years
in Melbourne. Fifty years ago, he took breaks from studying art history at Reading University to tour the UK in a Ford Transit. While his long white hair could betray a prog-rock past, he sheepishly admits, “I actually fell into the clutches of people who did 40s, 50s, 60s jazz standards. There is a universe in which I just kept on doing that, because I was committed. But as soon as I came to Australia, it fell off the tree.
Clark was born in Canberra in 1954 but grew up in Rome, where his father worked for a branch of the UN. There, Clark absorbed the sculptures of Bernini and the architecture of Borromini. At 16, he was sent to England to do his A-levels at a “slightly anarchic school” near Farnham, which was subject to a drugs bust the summer he left. Before starting university he went to New York and spent his days loitering at MoMA.
Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning He’s long loved Sicily, having travelled to Cefalú twice in his youth to visit the old villa of the English occultist Aleister Crowley. He’s not a follower, he hastens to add – it was just the done thing for a young man.A shrine of a different kind has been erected at Buxton Contemporary. One wall is devoted to his former student, the musician Rowland S Howard. One portrait of Howard resembles a Renaissance-era tomb effigy.
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