Leigh Clarke is a London based artist who is the Printmaking tutor at the Royal Academy. He started off his art career by studying BA in Fine Art Printmaking at Brighton University. In the evenings he used to do Stand Up Comedy. Towards the end of his degree and in his degree show he felt untrue to himself, he was selling his work to banks and investment people, in the 1990’s there was a inequality and art would be made to generate cash. At this point his comedy took off and he was enjoying it a lot more than his art. He then took on an MA at the Royal Academy where he discussed his comedy in his interview and it helped him to get a place.
In his studio in the East End he tried to work out how his comedy act which he has now started to incorporate singing into. He wanted to be able to make these songs visual which is when he started changing and adapting his print making.
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