Jack Clarke is a producer, curator, writer and cultural theorist from Kersal in Salford, working across film, exhibition-making, criticism and socially engaged cultural practice.

His work is rooted in Northern DIY traditions, working-class history, community memory and political storytelling, often developed through low-budget, collaborative and grassroots contexts. He is interested in the spaces where culture actually happens before institutions arrive to rename it: pubs, community rooms, archives, churches, markets, estates, drop-ins, kitchens, front rooms and whatever else people manage to build together when the official infrastructure has gone missing.

Jack has worked with Factory International as a Young Curator, Bury Art Museum as Moving Image Curator, and the Working Class Movement Library through the Big Flame Project. He co-curated Keep The Flame Burning with 16–25 year old working-class volunteers, and produced and co-curated Nothing About Us Without Us, the national Big Local legacy exhibition.

Alongside his curatorial work, Jack has produced short films, documentaries and community-led moving image projects across the North of England. His writing has appeared in Culture Matters, Savage Minds, Z Network, STAT Magazine and 1922, often pulling apart the language of institutions, class, art and power with humour, frustration and refusal. His work pushes against the idea that legitimacy only comes through degrees, funding systems or institutional approval.