Carey Clarke was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1936. He was educated at St. Andrew's College, Dublin. Carey also attended the National College of Art (NCA) from 1954 to 1959. In 1963, Carey took up a teaching post at the College. While at NCA, he was awarded the Royal Dublin Society's prize for portraiture and the Taylor Art Scholarship. Carey Clarke studied painting at the Salzburg Academy in the summer of 1969. He took a year's sabbatical to research tempera painting in Florence in 1976. In 1985, Carey received the inaugural Keating/McLoughlin Bursary for Art and a silver medal at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) annual exhibition. Carey Clarke began exhibiting in 1956 at the Irish Exhibition of Living Art. He had his first so ...