Jock Clutterbuck – The Pyramids of Mars

Jock Clutterbuck
The Pyramids of Mars, 2026

Etching with aquatint and colour stencil
Edition of 10 + A/P
Image Size 36.5×32.5cm / Paper Size 46×38cm

Artist Statement
I was a student at RMIT in the mid 60s, then as a part time teacher I worked with George Baldessin and we both printed at the facilities on the weekends. We also jointly worked together to make etching presses out of cast iron clothes mangles in 1968. I began printing with my converted mangle in my studio in Balwyn on an exhibition staged later that year at Tate Adam’s Crossley Gallery. I have continued to print all my own work on presses that I have made ever since. In the 1970’s I was enchanted with Japanese printmaking, particularly Edo period prints. I admired their unique landscape schemas and methodologies, developed in isolation, that so fascinated 19th century French painters. Over the years I have become fascinated with the remnants of ancient civilizations, and studied artifacts in the ethnological museums in Berlin and Paris.

Our old models of history are collapsing to reveal an enormous panorama of presence which reaches, both back in time and out amongst our neighbours. The more we learn about our past the more it begins to look like our future.

Jock Clutterbuck (b.1945) studied sculpture and printmaking at The Gordon Institute in Geelong and RMIT in the mid 1960’s, before taking up a position lecturing in printmaking and sculpture at the VCA in 1974. He was appointed head of the sculpture dept in 1984, a position he held until retiring in 2000. Clutterbuck has been awarded; Print Council Print Prize (1969, 1973); The Geelong Print Prize (1972); The Freemantle Print Prize (1976, 1990); and the Gippsland Print Prize (2017). He has represented Australia in fourteen invitational, international print biennales since 1972.

Jock Clutterbuck is represented by Australian Galleries, Melbourne and Sydney.

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