Jake Clark
'Night Golf'

Oil and plastic balls on board
61 x 61 cm

Jake Clark was born in London in 1966. Between 1985 and 1993 he studied at Falmouth School of Art, Derbyshire College, Brighton Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. In 1993 he was included in John Moores 18 and in 1994 he was awarded the Atlantis European Prize. His one-person show Dog Days was held at Gas Works Gallery London 1995. His recent group shows have included a number in airports: at Newark, New Jersey 1998, Heathrow, 2000 and Gatwick 2001.

"My recent paintings are centred around recreational landscapes such as crazy golf. I am interested in the scale of the figures playing around the abstract shapes of a course. Crazy golf has the effect of a giant cartoon sitting in the landscape. The objects stuck on to the paintings represent the trajectory of the balls or the swing of the putter, and the backgrounds mimic coloured concrete next to bleached grass. My goal with these pieces is to make a multi-layered object, but one with a strong sense of place and atmosphere."