Clark worked as a fine artist for many years but became disillusioned by the celebrity success of many contemporary artists.

Following her passion for future trends and colour she focused on designing with a continuing interest and exploration of materials through making throughout her pioneering work.

Inspiring other artists, designers and industrial manufacturers with her extensive knowledge of a myriad of materials and making processes alongside advocating the necessity for individuals and their experience being valued in manufacturing environments to facilitate knowledge transfer and ownership encouraging economic growth and reward within the company and for the individual.

Previous Research

Clark continues to be a part-time member of the technical support team in Fashion and Textiles, passing on knowledge to student’s college wide regarding yarns and fibres.

The PHD follows a pump priming research project funded by the Staff Research and Development Fund at the RCA that resulted in critical acclaim. The resulting work, nine full-scale interior prototype pieces, was exhibited globally, in London, Japan and the United States and has been considered and represented as exemplar outcomes for project-based research. This research was preceded by a Churchill Traveling Fellowship that was awarded in 2002 to research the groundbreaking approach to textiles with specific reference to yarn innovation, which has in recent years emerged from Japan. Clark traveled within China and Japan and documented the experience and disseminated the findings in a written report illustrated with photographs and samples gathered on the journey.