Ken Clark, one of the few New Zealand artists who have exhibited at the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in London, was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1957.
While at school he won art prizes and in 1976 was awarded a scholarship. He has worked mainly in film and video for TVNZ , TV3 and freelance. He started to make short films with his high school friend, Michael Hurst, now a well-known theatre and television actor and director, 'The Imaginary Zoo' was placed 3rd in the New Zealand section of the BBC Television. ASIFA, ICOGRADA Animated Film Competition in 1973. He has been a finalist for the 2003 New Zealand Academy of Film and Television Arts award for Design and “Snip”, a short film he wrote and directed was nominated for a Best Actress in a Short Film ‘MOA’ (New Zealand 'Oscar') in the 2015 Rialto New Zealand Film Awards.
He has a Graduate Certificate in Design from CPIT and a BFA (Hons) from Canterbury University, School of Fine Arts. While at Canterbury University he was invited to become a member of the 'Golden Key International Honour Society'. He was also a contributor to the book 'Stop Motion, Passion, Process and Performance', by Barry J C Purves.
Laurence Bradshaw, Professor Emeritus of Art & Art History, University of Nebraska at Omaha has said "Ken Clark of Christchurch, New Zealand has a sense of elongation in terms of his pictorial space and his work "Conception" shines out. The high saturated color together with the central light effect helps to speak out about the birthing process. In a similar format, his "Phoebe 16031" is an intermixture of the pixelated with the tighter realism suggestive of a kind of mystery woman. The intense yellow contrasting color adds to a kind of dynamism"