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He was also a writer and poet. Clarke was born in Simon's Town near Cape Town , in He left high school in and was a dock worker until when, aged 27, during a three-month holiday to Tesselaarsdal , a small farming village near Caledon in the South West Cape, he began his artistic career. With assistance from his lifelong friend, poet James Matthews , Clarke held his first solo exhibition in the newsroom of the newspaper The Golden City Post in He said, "Before my exhibition, I was just another coloured man.

Our people took it for granted that only whites could do such things. Now they are becoming aware of the fact that we can do these things too; that we are human beings! Clarke was best known for his graphic prints , particularly his woodcuts , and in later years he moved into collage. He also used leather, glass, found objects and other mixed media.

His artistic career spanned more than six decades and he produced a large number of works and appeared in many exhibitions. A major retrospective exhibition of his work, Wind Blowing on the Cape Flats , took place in London in Among the honours Clarke received were 27 international awards in writing and art Italy, USA and Taiwan , including Honorary Life Membership of the Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles ; six South African awards for writing and art, including three since —notably the Order of Ikhamanga , silver class ; [ 3 ] and the Molteno Award for services to the visual arts, from the Cape Tercentenary Foundation.

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