Professor Clive Wilkins

Research

Clive Wilkins is a fine art painter and has exhibited widely, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He has also exhibited at the Royal Academy and in private galleries in Cork Street, London – including a one-man show in 2007. His work can be found in public and private collections. Wilkins has produced portraits of Sir Howard Hodgkin and Sir Peter Blake amongst others and has been presented publicly to HRH Princess Royal. He is currently Artist in Residence in the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

His writing and paintings have been in print on numerous occasions, most notably in his published work 'The Creatures in the Night', a story written and lavishly illustrated by Wilkins in 2008.

He is the author of 'The Moustachio Quartet', a series of four novels~ 'Caruso Maelstrom', 'Count Zapik', 'Xavier Mannikin' and 'Eissenstrom'. The novels explore imagination and question consciousness and reality, amidst the miasma of ‘being’.

Wilkins is a performer and magician and particularly interested in the nature of cognitive illusion and the psychology of perception.

He has been appointed Visiting Professors at Nanjing Institute of Technology and Beijing University of Language and Culture. He has also been appointed Honorary Professors at Hangzhou Diangi University.

He currently lives in the heart of England. In his spare time, he is a teacher, flautist, origamist and tango dancer.

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Examples of Clive's work


The Ambassadors	The Bandaged Lady	The Spanish Moon Lady
The above paintings are oil on panel. For more examples of Clive's artwork, visit Behance.

Publications

Key publications:

Literary works

Wilkins, C. (2017). The Moustachio Quartet~ Eissenstrom. Wind on the Wire Press ISBN 9780993002939.

Wilkins, C. (2014). The Moustachio Quartet~ Caruso Maelstrom. Wind on the Wire Press. ISBN 9780993002908.

Wilkins, C. (2014). The Moustachio Quartet~ Count Zapik. Wind on the Wire Press. ISBN 9780993002915.

Wilkins, C. (2014). The Moustachio Quartet~ Xavier Mannikin. Wind on the Wire Press. ISBN 9780993002922.

Wilkins, C. (2008). The Creatures in the Night. Dingley Press. ISBN-10: 0954708334, ISBN-13: 9780954708337.

Science-art publications

Garcia-Pelegrin, E., Schnell, A. K., Wilkins, C. & Clayton, N. S. (2021) Exploring the perceptual inabilities of Eurasian Jays (Garrulus glandarius) using magic effects. Proceedings of the Natural Academy of Sciences, 118 (24) e2026106118

Garcia-Pelegrin, E., , A. K., Wilkins, C. & Clayton, N. S. (2020). An unexpected audience: Experiments with magic effects might be informative about cognition in animals, Science 369 (6510), 1424-1426

Wilkins, C. A. P. & Clayton, N. S. (2019) Reflections on the Spoon Test. An essay in honor of Endel Tulving. NeuroPsychologia, 134,107221. In https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107221

Wilkins, C. A. P. & Clayton, N. S. (2019). Mind Tricks. Magic and mysticism reveal cognitive shortcuts with implications beyond entertainment. Science 364, 6445.

Clayton, N. S. & Wilkins, C. A. P. (2019). Book review of Tricks of the Mind. Experiencing the Impossible. Current Biology 29(10), R349-R350

Clayton, N. S. & Wilkins, C. A. P. (2018). Seven Myths of Memory. Behavioural Processes, 152, 3-9.

Clayton, N. S. & Wilkins, C. A. P. (2017). The Creative Navigator's Compass: Memory and Perception~ and how we know which way we are facing. The Psychologist 35, 10-14.