[2] Clarke won a scholarship that allowed her to attend the Slade School of Fine Art.
[1] Clarke's works included bronze castings, memorials and wood sculptures, often of African heads.
[5] The most notable of her memorials is the panel and medallion tribute to Joseph Conrad at Bishopsbourne in Kent, which was unveiled in 1927.
[2] Clarke also wrote about, and promoted African art and spent a year, between 1927 and 1928 in Kenya, where she made many drawings which when she returned to London she used as the basis for wood carvings and bronzes of tribal figures.
[6][7][1] Wood carving became her technique of choice, often working with hardwoods and, on occasion, sperm whale teeth.