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Brian Clarke

Sir Brian Clarke Hon FRIBA CF (born 2 July 1953) is a British painter, architectural artist, designer and printmaker, known for his large-scale stained glass and mosaic projects, symbolist paintings, set designs, and collaborations with major figures in Modern and contemporary architecture.

Brian Clarke
Brian Clarke in his studio, 2015
Born
Brian Ord Clarke

(1953-07-02) 2 July 1953 (age 70)
Oldham, Lancashire, England
EducationOldham School of Arts and Crafts; Burnley School of Art; North Devon College of Art and Design, Bideford
OccupationArtist
Years active1975–present
Known forPainting, stage design, stained glass, Gesamtkunstwerk,[1] tapestry, mosaic, ceramics
Notable workArchitectural Stained Glass; Royal Mosque, KKIA; Victoria Quarter, Leeds;[2] Holocaust Memorial Synagogue, Darmstadt;[3] Paul McCartney New World Tour; Pyramid of Peace and Reconciliation[4]
Spouses
Liz Finch
(m. 1972; div. 1996)
(m. 2013)
Websitewww.brianclarke.co.uk

Born to a working-class family in Oldham, in the north of England, and a full-time art student on scholarship by age 13, Clarke came to prominence in the late 1970s as a painter and figure of the Punk movement[5][6][7] and designer of stained glass. By the early 1980s he had become a major figure in international contemporary art,[8] the subject of several television documentaries and a café society regular. He is known for his architectonic art, prolific output in various media,[9] friendships with key cultural figures,[10][11][a] and polemical lectures and interviews.

His practice in architectural and autonomous stained glass, often on a monumental scale,[12] has led to successive innovation and invention in the development of the medium.[b] This includes the creation of stained glass without lead and the subsequent pioneering of a 'dramatically enhanced Pointillism'[15] in glass, as well as the creation of sculptural stained glass works, analogous to collage, made primarily or entirely of lead. The latter two advances are described as having taken stained glass as an art form to its zero-point in each direction: absolute transparency and complete opacity.[c]

A lifelong exponent of the integration of art and architecture, his architectural collaborations include work with Zaha Hadid,[17] Norman Foster,[18] Arata Isozaki, Oscar Niemeyer, I. M. Pei, César Pelli, and Renzo Piano.[19] He served a seven-year term as chairman of The Architecture Foundation[20] and served on the Design Review Committee of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.[21] His artistic collaborations have included work with David Bailey, Hugh Hudson, Malcolm McLaren, and with Linda McCartney and Paul McCartney.

Early life and education edit

Brian Clarke was born in Oldham, Lancashire, to Edward Ord Clarke, a coal miner, and Lilian Clarke (née Whitehead), a cotton spinner. Raised in a family familiar with Spiritualism – his maternal grandmother was a notable local medium – Clarke attended a Spiritualist Lyceum throughout his childhood[22] and was considered a 'sensitive', gaining a reputation locally as a 'boy medium'.[d]

Aged 12, he applied for a place in the last intake of an education scheme existing in the north of England to enable artistically promising children to leave their secondary school and become full-time art students,[22][23] and was awarded a scholarship to the Oldham School of Arts and Crafts.[24] In place of a standard curriculum, he principally studied the arts and design, learning drawing, heraldry, pictorial composition, colour theory, pigment mixing and calligraphy, among other subjects.[22] Considered a prodigy, by the age of 16 Clarke had mastered the orthodoxies of academic life drawing. In 1968, he and his family moved to Burnley and, too young at 15 to gain entrance to Burnley College of Art, he lied about his age and was accepted on the strength of his previous work.[22]

In 1970, Clarke enrolled in the Architectural Stained Glass course at North Devon College of Art and Design, graduating from the Diploma in Design with a first class distinction.[22] In 1974, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellowship[25] to study religious art in Italy, France, and West Germany. He was inspired by the post-war German school of stained glass artists, and in particular the artist Johannes Schreiter. In 1976, Clarke received the Churchill Extension Fellowship to study art in architecture and contemporary painting in the United States, where he connected with the art of, and later befriended, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Andy Warhol.

Work edit

In his career, Clarke has advanced new approaches across a range of mediums including stained glass, mosaic, collage, painting and drawing.

1970s edit

 
Baptistery windows designed and fabricated in 1976 by Clarke for F. X. Velarde's 1932-1934 Art Deco church of St Gabriel, Blackburn.[26][27]

Clarke received his first architectural commission at the age of 17. However, his suite of 20 windows for the Church of St Lawrence, Longridge (1975)[28] is considered his first mature work. Here, the use of transparent glass has a Pop Art sensibility; the 'see through’ panes embrace the everyday by letting the real world in. In 1976, Clarke received a large-scale commission from the University of Nottingham to produce 45 paintings, vestments, and a series of stained glass windows for a multi-faith chapel in the Queen's Medical Centre. One of the largest public art commissions of the decade, the process of design and installation was filmed by the BBC as material for a documentary.[29]

In the early years of his career, most of Clarke's work was for religious buildings. However, by 1978 his relationship with the Church had become untenable, as his designs were constantly being modified. The ending of this relationship freed Clarke to create stained glass for secular contexts and advance the medium as social art. Throughout this period, Clarke was active in bringing attention to stained glass and promoting it as a modern medium. In 1975, he organised the travelling exhibition Glass Art One, which featured secular, autonomous stained glass panels inspired in part by Japanese-landscape painting.[30] Later, he co-curated GLASS/LIGHT, an extensive survey of twentieth-century stained glass, with British war artist John Piper and art historian Martin Harrison,[31] in collaboration with the artist Marc Chagall as part of the 1978 Festival of the City of London.[32] Clarke also produced the book Architectural Stained Glass,[33]a polemical collection of essays.

In his painting, Clarke developed a strictly abstract Constructivist language of geometric signs; often his work had an underlying grid structure made from repetitions and variations on the cross. In later years, he would disrupt the grid with free-flowing amorphic forms. In 1977 Punk hit the UK, which had a deep impact on Clarke. He connected with Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren and later collaborated as a designer on their aborted zine Chicken, whose creation was funded by EMI and filmed by BBC's Arena.[34] He also expressed Punk's nihilistic energy in the 1977 series of paintings, ‘Dangerous Visions’ (1977). Around the same time, Clarke became friends with the physical chemist Lord Snow. After Snow's death, he made a tributary portfolio of screenprints; their title, The Two Cultures referenced Snow's influential 1959 Rede Lecture on the perceived gulf between the humanities and sciences. In 1983 the Tate acquired an edition of The Two Cultures.[35]

Between 1978 and 1979, the BBC filmed Clarke's studio practice and life for an hour-long BBC Omnibus documentary,[36] Brian Clarke: The Story So Far.[37] Millions watched the documentary in the UK, and the BBC recorded multiple viewer complaints. The programme and subsequent press coverage, including Clarke's appearance on the cover of Vogue, photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe, brought him to broader public attention. Later in 1979, Clarke became a presenter on the BBC2 arts programme Mainstream and the BBC Radio 4 programme Kaleidescope, conducting interviews with figures including Brassaï, Andy Warhol, John Lennon, and Elisabeth Lutyens. He also gave Sheffield band The Human League their first television appearance.

1980s edit

 
Oil painting by Clarke from the Via Crucis series, titled And He is Condemned (1983), exhibited at the reopening of the Robert Fraser Gallery

In the 1980s Clarke was instrumental in bringing stained glass into the public sphere. He received his first international commission for paintings, a wooden construction, and a suite of stained glass windows for the Olympus European Headquarters Building in Hamburg, completed in 1981. Marking a major shift in his own practice and breaking with tradition, he had the windows made at a studio in Germany. The experience of their immersive colour prompted critics to describe them as the Colour Field of stained glass. Another development in this work is Clarke's liberation of the lead line from being a purely structural element: where the lead breaks free, it takes on an expressive quality. In the same year, receiving a commission from the Government of Saudi Arabia for the Royal Mosque of King Khalid International Airport, Clarke studied Islamic ornament at the Quran schools in Fez. Following this, in 1984, the architectural practice Derek Latham and Co. asked Clarke to collaborate on the refurbishment of Henry Currey's Grade II listed Thermal Baths in Buxton. Satisfying his social ambitions for the medium, he enclosed the former Victorian spa in a barrel-vaulted skin of stained glass, bathing the public space “in an immense blue light”.[38] It is one of Clarke's earliest works to have been designed to have a deliberate nocturnal presence.

 
Victoria Quarter Leeds modern abstract stained glass canopy by Brian Clarke at Cross Arcade junction, 1990

In 1988, architect Arata Isozaki approached Clarke to collaborate on the Lake Sagami Building in Yamanishi.[39] Clarke designed a composition of stained glass for the central lantern[40] and a series of interrelated skylights that referenced elements of Isozaki's building. In the same period, Clarke collaborated with Norman Foster and his architectural practice Foster + Partners to design stained glass for Stansted Airport's new terminal building. For the first time in the history of stained glass, computer-assisted design was utilised in its visualisation and design. Partly for security reasons, the design couldn't be used. The final commission was for two friezes and a 6-metre high tower of stained glass. While their abstract, constructivist forms resonated with Foster's language, Clarke has recently expressed how the medieval technology of lead and stained glass was at odds with the material qualities of High-tech architecture.[41] An urge to resolve this conflict later spurred Clarke to embrace the most cutting-edge glass technology.

Equally experimental across other mediums, Clarke's painting practice was also inspired by technology. Noticing the similarity between the reticular, Constructivist-derived symbols that dominated his work and the light-metering computergrams from Olympus OM System cameras, he produced a series of technology-related paintings, including Time Lag Zero, for the headquarters of Olympus Optical (UK). During this period, Clarke produced the cover painting for Paul McCartney's solo album Tug of War, designing the cover with Linda McCartney. He also created the stage designs for Paul McCartney's World Tour (1989–90).

 
The stained glass windows and dome, and ceramic and carved wood Torah ark of the New Synagogue, Darmstadt, designed by Clarke

1990s edit

Continuing to work collaboratively with leading architects, Clarke started to challenge the traditional containment of stained glass within a frame and fashion entire facades from glass. When Future Systems (the architectural practice of Jan Kaplický and Amanda Levete) asked Clarke to collaborate on The Glass Dune (1992), he proposed an internal ‘skin of art’ for their innovative boomerang-shaped building, which was never realised. Collaborating later with expressionist architect Will Alsop on the design of Hôtel du Département des Bouches du Rhône (which became known as Le Grand Bleu), Clarke clad the building in an Yves Klein blue glass. A landmark in the city of Marseille, the building is now considered a major work of late 20th century architecture.[42]

Desiring lighter and more expansive fields of glass, Clarke continued searching for new technologies. Working with architect Zaha Hadid on a proposal for the Spittelau Viaducts Housing Project, Vienna, he developed a new type of mouth-blown glass, which he christened 'Zaha-Glas'. Although this project was never realised, the newly developed 'Zaha-Glas'[43] was first used architecturally in Clarke's scheme for the ceiling of Pfizer World Headquarters in New York, a landmark architectural art project that connected 42nd and 43rd Streets in Manhattan. Working with Foster on the design for the Al Faisaliyah Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (installed 1999), Clarke abandoned the medieval technology of glass and supportive lead entirely and conceived a novel solution that involved firing a ceramic frit glaze into float glass. The new glass had a lightness that matched Norman Foster's High-tech building. Clarke, however, continued to use traditional, medieval technologies in other architectural contexts.  

Clarke continued to be active in other mediums in addition to stained glass. In 1993, he created the set designs for Paul McCartney's New World Tour (1993); one of the sets was a collage of stained glass through the ages. The following year, Clarke had a joint show with Linda McCartney. The exhibition, Collaborations, showed works by both artists and collaborative pieces in which McCartney's photos were silkscreened onto mouth-blown glass using a process of their own devising.

In 1998 the English High Court severed all ties between Francis Bacon's former gallery, Marlborough Fine Art,[44] and the Estate of Francis Bacon. Clarke was appointed sole executor of the Estate of Francis Bacon, acting on behalf of Bacon's heir John Edwards.[45] Clarke transferred representation of Francis Bacon to the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York, where an exhibition was mounted of seventeen previously unseen Bacon paintings recovered from his studio. Clarke brought a second court case against Marlborough Fine Art, alleging that the gallery had underpaid Bacon for his work, asserted undue influence over him,[46] and failed to account for up to 33 of his paintings.[47] Following Edwards' diagnosis with lung cancer in 2002, the litigation was settled out of court, with each side paying its own costs. During the legal process an undisclosed number of Bacon's paintings were recovered from Marlborough, and "vast quantities of correspondence and documents relating to the life of the artist were handed over by the gallery".[48]

In 1998, Edwards and Clarke donated the contents of Bacon's studio at 7 Reece Mews, London, left untouched since Bacon's death, to the Hugh Lane, the Dublin City Gallery.[49][50] What followed was a unique conservation project. A decision was taken to preserve the studio as it stood, and a team of archaeologists, art historians, conservators, and curators were involved in the move from London to Dublin.[51] The locations of over 7,000 items were documented, and in Dublin, the studio was rebuilt using all the original doors, flooring, walls, and ceiling,[50] and the items were placed exactly as they were left. The studio opened to the public in 2001, accompanied by the first-ever database to list the contents of an artist's studio.[52]

 
Stained glass skylight by Clarke, 120 sq metres total. Inspired by William Walton's Orb and Sceptre Coronation March and executed for The Spindles in Oldham (1993)

2000s edit

Continuing to advance his architectural vision for stained glass, in 2015 Clarke orchestrated the site-specific exhibition Lamina at the Gagosian Gallery, London, where floor to ceiling stained glass depicting golden leaves transformed the gallery space and immersed the visitors illuminated natural forms. Nature became a central theme for Clarke's work in these years. In an interview, Clarke acknowledged feeling close to Henri Matisse, who had worked in stained glass and whose work often glorified the wonders of nature. Nature also inspired Clarke's stained glass and ceramic works at Mall Cottages in West London. Clarke worked with Norman Foster on the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, a landmark building in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, built to house the triennial Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions.[53] Clarke's 9,700 square expanse of stained glass crowns the apex of the pyramid (installed 2006), featuring imagery of soaring doves.[54][55] 

In another example of Clarke breaking the medieval relationship between glass and lead, in the 2000s he took the radical step to inverse their relationship and began fashioning works entirely of lead. In these autonomous lead works, Clarke often uses the somber weightiness of lead to explore darker themes like mortality. His leadwork Don't Forget the Lamb (2014) is a memorial to his late mother. In this period, nature inspired Clarke's work in other mediums as well. His drawings of flowers use negative space as an expressive element, isolating the flowers in empty space with his signature, nervy line. This is seen in his later series, 'Night Orchids', exhibited at PACE Gallery in 2016.[56] Clarke's collages are equally experimental; the carefully chosen, often torn, fragments and chalk drawings build an image that attempts to capture the essence of the flower depicted. In a radical gesture, Clarke brought the language of collage to stained glass in a wrap-around window at Peel Cottage (installed 2009), where he incorporated fragments of medieval glass within a contemporary design.

2010s to present edit

In 2010, Clarke was commissioned to design stained windows for the new Papal Chapel of the Apostolic Nunciature, the diplomatic embassy of the Holy See to Great Britain, for the 2010 visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom, the first-ever state visit made by a pope to Britain.[57] The exhibition The Art of Light (2018) in Norwich highlighted Clarke's free-standing glass panels. While their folding structures draw inspiration from Japanese folding screens, they explore a new context for stained glass, no longer confined to the fabric of a building, but nevertheless having a strong architectural impact on whatever space they inhabit. The subject matter of these panels is diverse: many depict flowers and nature's opulence in vivid colour, but there are also images of intense grief and Pop-inspired subject matter. A Pop sensibility also runs through his Caryatids panels (2002), which depict muscular young men in beachwear by the sea. The work received criticism when it was shown at Christie's, London in 2011, reflective of the traditionalist values that surround the medium of stained glass.

In 2015, Clarke curated A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense: A Portrait of Robert Fraser, an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, in association with Pace Gallery, together with author Harriet Vyner (whose 'cult biography'[58] of Fraser, Groovy Bob, Clarke had contributed to). The 2014 solo exhibition Spitfires and Primroses with the Pace Gallery, juxtaposed two recent series of works, pairing oil paintings of the Second World War aircraft, arranged in a heraldic semé, with watercolours of English primroses. The show revealed an underlying disquiet to Clarke's botanical imagery. This aspect resonated later in his paintings of poppies, which formed the exhibition Vespers at Phillips, London in 2021.

In 2020, it was announced that a new Blue Coat School was to be built in Oldham, Clarke's hometown, named the Brian Clarke Church of England Academy,[59] to provide free school places to 1,200 pupils.[60] The academy was granted planning permission in April 2021,[61] with construction completed in 2023, and its first intake of pupils in September 2023

Selected projects edit

Selected realised projects edit

  • 1976: Stained glass for the east window of All Saints Church, Habergham, Burnley
  • 1977: Paintings, vestments and stained glass for the design of the Queen's Medical Centre Chapel, University of Nottingham
  • 1981: Stained glass for the Lavers & Barraud Building, Endell Street, London
  • 1981: Paintings and stained glass for the lobby of Olympus Optical Europa GmbH, Headquarters Building, Hamburg
  • 1982: Stained glass for the skylight and clerestory, main hall, library and office of the King Khalid International Airport Mosque, Riyadh
  • 1984: Doha Palace, designed a series of sculptural stained glass and windows for the new Government Building, Doha, Qatar
  • 1986: Modular Assemblage (painting installation) for Texas Instruments headquarters, Dallas, Texas
  • 1986: Stained glass barrel-vaulted roof of the Cavendish Arcade, Derbyshire
  • 1988: Stained glass for the central lantern tower and skylights of the Lake Sagami Country Club, Yamanishi, Japan
  • 1988: Stained glass and Torah shrine for the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue (Neue Synagoge), Darmstadt
  • 1989: Creation of stained-glass covered arcade at the Victoria Quarter, Leeds
  • 1989: Stage sets for the Paul McCartney World Tour
  • 1989: Stained glass roofs for the Spindles Shopping Centre, Oldham
  • 1990  Painting and stained glass for Cibreo Restaurant, Tokyo
  • 1991: Stained glass frieze and tower, Stansted Airport
  • 1992: Stained glass tower windows for Edificio Telefonica, Barcelona Telephone Exchange, Placa Catalunya, for the 1992 Summer Olympics
  • 1992: Tapestries and stained glass for Associated Newspapers headquarters, the Carmelite, Victoria Embankment, London
  • 1993: Designed the stage sets for the Paul McCartney New World Tour
  • 1993: Stained glass for the North wall of the EAM Building, Kassel, Germany
  • 1993: Stage sets for The Ruins of Time, Rudolf Nureyev tribute ballet, choreographed by Wayne Eagling, Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam
  • 1994: Mosaic for W.H. Smith & Sons, Mill Hill House, Abingdon, Oxon
  • 1994: Compact disc covers of the Sir William Walton music catalogue, EMI Classical
  • 1995: Stained glass roof lights and mosaic for Centre NorteShopping, Rio de Janeiro
  • 1995: Stained glass windows for the Cistercian Abbaye de la Fille Dieu, Romont
  • 1995: Stained glass and mosaic ceiling for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals World Headquarters, Emery Roth and Sons Building, New York
  • 1996: Stained glass façade for Valentino Village, Noci, Bari
  • 1996: Sculptural stained glass artwork (The Stamford Cone) for UBS, Swiss Bank Corporation headquarters, Stamford, Connecticut
  • 1997: Stained glass for The Chicago Sinai Synagogue
  • 2000: Stained glass facade and mosaic floor for Olympus Optical Europa Headquarters, Hamburg
  • 2000: Stained glass wall for Al-Faisliah Complex, Riyadh
  • 2001: Stained glass facade for Pfizer Inc, 42nd Street & 2nd Ave, New York
  • 2005: Design for stained glass for the choir windows, Linkoping Cathedral, Sweden
  • 2006: Stained glass apex and windows of the Pyramid of Peace, Astana
  • 2010: Stained glass for the Papal Chapel of the Apostolic Nunciature, London
  • 2011: Mosaic entrance hall for private home, St. James’, London
  • 2015: Stained glass, mosaic, ceramics tiles and door and window furniture for a private house in Chiswick Mall, London
  • 2015: Design of the new Fellowship Medallion for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust
  • 2018: Design of the Beaverbrook Country Club Coach House Spa, Cherkley Court
  • 2018: St James’ Gesamtkunstwerk: entrance hall of private London home, St James’ Park
  • 2021: Stained glass, The Red Room Bar, Connaught Hotel, London

Selected unrealised projects edit

  • 1992: The Glass Dune (Ministry of Environment Building), Hamburg, Germany
  • 1994: Stained glass window for Clinical Research Building and Hammersmith Hospital Cancer Centre with Jan Kaplický (Future Systems)
  • 1994: Designs for stained glass ceiling and mosaic floor for Friedrichstadt Passagen, Quartier 206, Berlin
  • 1994: Collaborative proposal with Zaha Hadid for stained glass and mosaic at Spittelau Viaducts Housing Project, Vienna
  • 1994: Designs for stained glass and Torah ark for Aachen Synagogue
  • 1995: Design for stained glass wall for the refurbishment of the entrance lobby of the United Nations Headquarters, New York
  • 1996: Proposal for the Great Auditorium Paris Opera, Bastille
  • 1997: Design for stained glass and mosaic, RWE Energie AG Headquarters, Essen, Germany
  • 1997: Designs for windows of Heiliggeist-Kirche, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 1997: Design for stained glass, Chep Lap Kok Airport, Hong Kong
  • 1998: Design for stained glass roof and water sculptures for Neiman Marcus and Fashion Show Mall, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • 2000: Design for a glass sculpture, Holborn Place, London
  • 2001: Design for stained glass facade for West Winter Garden, Canary Wharf, London
  • 2003: Stained glass design for south elevation façade, Great South Grandstand, Ascot Racecourse
  • 2011: Design for cast bronze and stained glass plaza sculpture, The Shard, London Bridge
  • 2017: Designs for stained glass transept windows, Salisbury Cathedral

Recognition and roles edit

Awards and honours edit

  • 1974: Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship
  • 1975: Churchill Fellowship Extension
  • 1988: Europa Nostra Award: Gold Medal (Cavendish Arcade, Buxton)
  • 1991: Leeds Award for Architecture (Victoria Quarter); Civic Trust Award (Victoria Quarter)
  • 1996: Award for Fine Architecture, Heidelberg
  • 2007: Honorary D.Litt., Huddersfield University
  • 2012: Honorary Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Master Glass Painters
  • 2018: Doctor of Humane Letters, Virginia Theological Seminary
  • 2021: Honorary Fellow, Arts University Bournemouth

Clarke was knighted in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to art.[67][68]

Selected exhibitions edit

  • 1975: Brian Clarke: Glass Art One, Mid-Pennine Arts Association, Arts Council of Great Britain.[22][69]
  • 1979: GLASS/LIGHT (with John Piper and Marc Chagall), Festival of the City of London.[22][69]
  • 1981: Brian Clarke: New Paintings, Constructions and Prints (with the Robert Fraser Gallery), Royal Institute of British Architects, London.[69]
  • 1982: British Stained Glass, Centre International du Vitrail, Chartres, France.[69]
  • 1982: Brian Clarke - Serigraphien und Mosaik, Franz Mayer'sche Hofkunstanstalt, Munich.[69]
  • 1983: Brian Clarke: Paintings, opening exhibition of the new Robert Fraser Gallery, London.[69]
  • 1983: Black/White (with Jean-Michel Basquiat), Robert Fraser Gallery, London.[69]
  • 1986: Brian Clarke: Stained Glass, Seibu Museum of Art, Yurakacho, Tokyo.[69]
  • 1987: Brian Clarke: Paintings, 1976 - 1986, Seibu Museum of Art, Ikebukuro, Tokyo; Yao Seibu Exhibition Hall, Yao, Osaka.[69]
  • 1988: Brian Clarke, Malerei und Farbfenster 1977 - 1988, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.[69]
  • 1988: Die Architektur der Synagoge (Architecture of the Synagogue), Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Architecture Museum), Frankfurt.[69][3]
  • 1989: Brian Clarke: Paintings, The Indar Pasricha Gallery, Hauz Khas, New Delhi; Pyrri Art Centre, Savolinna.[69]
  • 1990: Brian Clarke: Into and Out of Architecture, The Mayor Gallery, London.[69]
  • 1990: Brian Clarke: Architecture and Stained Glass, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo.[69]
  • 1992: Light and Architecture (in collaboration with Future Systems), Ingolstadt.[69]
  • 1993: Images of Christ, Northampton Museum; St. Paul's Cathedral, London.[69]
  • 1993: Brian Clarke: Designs on Architecture, Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham.[69]
  • 1993: Architettura e Spazio Sacro nella Modernita (Architecture and the Sacred Space in the Modern Age) (with architect Alfred Jacoby), Venice Biennale of Architecture.[69]
  • 1998: The Glass Wall, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.[69]
  • 1998: Brian Clarke—Linda McCartney: Collaborations, Musée Suisse du Vitrail, Romont, Switzerland; Deutsche Glasmalerei-Museum, Linnich, Germany.[69]
  • 2002: Brian Clarke: Transillumination, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.[70]
  • 2002: Flowers for New York, Steuben Gallery, Corning Museum, New York.[71]
  • 2005: Lamina, Gagosian Gallery, London.[71]
  • 2011:The Quick and the Dead, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.[24]
  • 2011: Brian Clarke: Works on Paper 1969-2011, Phillips de Pury, Saatchi Gallery, London.[72]
  • 2013: Between Extremities, Pace Gallery, New York.[73]
  • 2014: Piper & Clarke. Stained Glass: Art or Anti-Art, The Verey Gallery and Eton College, Eton.[74][75]
  • 2015: Spitfires and Primroses, PACE London.
  • 2016: Night Orchids, PACE London.
  • 2018: Brian Clarke: The Art of Light, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich.[76][77]
  • 2020: Brian Clarke: On Line, Arts University Bournemouth;[78] Brian Clarke: The Art of Light, Museum of Arts and Design, New York.[79]
  • 2021: Vespers, Phillips Berkeley Square, London.

Television and film edit

  • BBC OmnibusBrian Clarke: The Story So Far. Diana Lashmore, BBC One, 15 March 1979.[80][81]
  • Mainstream (presenter). BBC Two, 1979.
  • Time Lag Zero: Impressions of Brian Clarke. Celebration, Granada Television, 1980.
  • Linda McCartney: Behind the Lens (contributor). Nicholas Caxton, Arena, BBC One, 1992.[82]
  • Architecture of the Imagination - The Window (contributor). Mark Kidel, BBC Two, 1994.[83]
  • Architecture of the Imagination - The Stairway (contributor). Mark Kidel, BBC Two, 1994.
  • Omnibus – Norman Foster (contributor). Mark Kidel, BBC One, 1995.[84]
  • Eye over Prague/Jan Kaplický – Oko Nad Prahou (contributor). Olga Špátová, 2010.
  • Frank Brangwyn: Stained Glass – a catalogue (contributor). Malachite Art Films/Libby Horner, 2010.[85]
  • Colouring Light: Brian Clarke - An Artist Apart. With contributions from Sir Peter Cook, Dame Zaha Hadid, and Martin Harrison. Mark Kidel, BBC Four, 2011.[86]

Bibliography edit

Publications edit

  • Architectural Stained Glass, Brian Clarke. With contributions by John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens, Johannes Schreiter and Robert Sowers. Architectural Record Books, McGraw Hill, New York, 1979. ISBN 0-07-011264-9
  • WORK, Brian Clarke. Steidl Verlag, 2009. ISBN 978-3-86521-633-5
  • Christophe, Brian Clarke. Steidl Verlag, 2009.[87]
  • A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense: A Portrait of Robert Fraser, Brian Clarke, with Harriet Vyner. Pace Gallery London, 2015. ISBN 978-1-909406-16-2

Contributions edit

  • David Bailey's Trouble and Strife. Thames and Hudson, 1980.
  • Into The Silent Land. Yoshihiko Ueda, Kyoto Shoin, 1990.
  • Glasbilder Johannes Schreiter: 1987 – 1997, 'A cry in the wilderness'. Beispiel Darmstadt, 1997.
  • Groovy Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Fraser. Harriet Vyner, Faber & Faber, 1999.
  • Paul McCartney: Paintings, Bulfinch, 2000. ISBN 978-0821226735
  • Ludwig Schaffrath (1924-2011) – an appreciation, The Journal of Stained Glass, Vol. XXXIV. The British Society of Master Glass Painters, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9568762-0-1
  • Burne-Jones: Vast acres and fleeting ecstasies, The Journal of Stained Glass, Vol. XXXV. The British Society of Master Glass Painers, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9568762-1-8

Monographs and catalogues edit

  • Brian Clarke: Working Drawings. With contributions by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens. Salisbury: St. Edmunds Arts Centre, 1979.
  • Brian Clarke. By Martin Harrison. With contributions by Johannes Schreiter and Patrick Reyntiens. London: Quartet Books, 1981. ISBN 0-7043-2281-1
  • Brian Clarke: Paintings. London: Robert Fraser Gallery, 1983.
  • Brian Clarke: Microcosm (Stained Glass and Paintings). Tokyo: The Sezon Museum of Modern Art, 1987.
  • Brian Clarke: Malerei und Farbfenster 1977-1988. With contributions by Johannes Schreiter and Sir Peter Cook. Darmstadt: Hessisches Landesmuseum, 1988. ISBN 3-926527-13-7
  • Brian Clarke: Into and Out of Architecture. With contributions by Sir Norman Foster, Sir Peter Cook, Arata Isozaki, Ryu Niimi and Paul Beldock. London: The Mayor Gallery, 1990.
  • Brian Clarke. With contributions by Paul Beldock. Japan: Art Random and Kyoto Shoin International, 1990.
  • Brian Clarke: Designs on Architecture. Introduction by Paul Beldock. Oldham: Oldham Art Gallery, 1993.
  • Brian Clarke: Architectural Artist. London: Academy Editions, 1994. ISBN 1-85490-343-8
  • Les Vitraux de la Fille-Dieu de Brian Clarke/Die Glasgemälde der Fille-Dieu von Brian Clarke. Edited by: L'Abbaye Cistercienne de la Fille-Dieu à Romont, Museée suisse du vitrail à Romont. Bern: Benteli, 1997. ISBN 9783716510865
  • Brian Clarke—Linda McCartney: Collaborations. Edited by: Stefan Trümpler, Musée suisse du vitrail à Romont. Bern: Benteli, 1997.
  • 'Fleur de Lys': Brian Clarke. London: Faggionato Fine Arts, 1998.
  • Brian Clarke – Projects. New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1998. ISBN 978-1-891475-13-9
  • Brian Clarke – Transillumination. Edited by: Martin Harrison. New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 2002. ISBN 1-891475-22-3
  • Brian Clarke – Lamina. With contributions by Martin Harrison. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2005. ISBN 1-932598-18-9
  • Don't Forget the Lamb. New York: Phillips de Pury & Company, 2008.
  • Christophe. Steidl, 2009. ISBN 978-3865217721
  • Brian Clarke: Life and Death. Edited by: Stefan Trümpler. Romont: Vitromusée Romont, 2010. ISBN 978-3716516713
  • Brian Clarke: Atlantes & Astragals. With contributions by Martin Harrison and Hans Janssen. London: Christie's, 2011.
  • Brian Clarke: Works on Paper 1969–2011. London: Phillips de Pury and Company, 2011.
  • Brian Clarke: Between Extremities. With contributions by Martin Harrison and Robert C. Morgan. New York: PACE Gallery, 2013. ISBN 978-1-935410-39-3
  • Spitfires and Primroses 2012-2014/Works 1977-1985. With contributions by Amanda Harrison and Martin Harrison. London: PACE Gallery, 2015. ISBN 978-1909406155
  • Night Orchids. With contributions by Robert Storr. London: HENI Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-0993316104
  • The Art of Light – Brian Clarke. With contributions by Sir Norman Foster and Paul Greenhalgh. London: HENI Publishing and Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2018.
  • Brian Clarke: On Line. Poole: TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, 2020. ISBN 978-0-901196-82-8[88]
  • Spitfires. London: HENI Publishing, 2020. ISBN 978-1-912122-01-1
  • Vespers. Introductory essay by Robert Storr. London: HENI Publishing, 2021. ISBN 978-1-912122-35-6

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Notes edit

  1. ^ 'If the earnest boy from Oldham was bemused to find himself the toast of the glitterati, he wasn't bedazzled. "If you're a well-known plumber you meet well-known electricians, I suppose. It's just the circle you move in. And my friendships with Paul [McCartney] or [Francis] Bacon or Andy [Warhol] – that's just what happens in life. But," he adds with a glimmer of reproof, "I've got friends who aren't famous. I even have friends who aren't dead."'[10]
  2. ^ Including the early use of screen printing, incorporation of photography,[13] the origination of techniques allowing the inclusion of two colours in a single sheet of opaque glass, and the development of bonding techniques including multi-lamination.[14]
  3. ^ His major contributions to the medium are the removal of structural or outline-delineating lead through the production of seamless stained glass and, conversely, the production of related works created without glass, formed of calligraphic lead solder on sheet lead.[16]
  4. ^ "As a teenager, I went through the usual adolescent excitements to do with quasi-religious, quasi-artistic things and the closest to home was spiritualism. So I went through all the procedures that young spiritualists in the 1960s went through and became what they call a medium. It wasn't a preoccupation that consumed much of my life but it gave me a reservoir of imagery I find thrilling. To be frank, I think my art is still in what you might call 'mediumship'."[10]

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External links edit

External videos
  Brian Clarke: The Art of Light HENI Talks
  Conversation between Brian Clarke, Norman Foster and Robert Storr Museum of Arts and Design film by HENI Talks

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This article is about the British architectural artist and painter For other uses see Brian Clarke disambiguation Sir Brian Clarke Hon FRIBA CF born 2 July 1953 is a British painter architectural artist designer and printmaker known for his large scale stained glass and mosaic projects symbolist paintings set designs and collaborations with major figures in Modern and contemporary architecture SirBrian ClarkeHon FRIBA FRSA CFBrian Clarke in his studio 2015BornBrian Ord Clarke 1953 07 02 2 July 1953 age 70 Oldham Lancashire EnglandEducationOldham School of Arts and Crafts Burnley School of Art North Devon College of Art and Design BidefordOccupationArtistYears active1975 presentKnown forPainting stage design stained glass Gesamtkunstwerk 1 tapestry mosaic ceramicsNotable workArchitectural Stained Glass Royal Mosque KKIA Victoria Quarter Leeds 2 Holocaust Memorial Synagogue Darmstadt 3 Paul McCartney New World Tour Pyramid of Peace and Reconciliation 4 SpousesLiz Finch m 1972 div 1996 wbr m 2013 wbr Websitewww wbr brianclarke wbr co wbr uk Born to a working class family in Oldham in the north of England and a full time art student on scholarship by age 13 Clarke came to prominence in the late 1970s as a painter and figure of the Punk movement 5 6 7 and designer of stained glass By the early 1980s he had become a major figure in international contemporary art 8 the subject of several television documentaries and a cafe society regular He is known for his architectonic art prolific output in various media 9 friendships with key cultural figures 10 11 a and polemical lectures and interviews His practice in architectural and autonomous stained glass often on a monumental scale 12 has led to successive innovation and invention in the development of the medium b This includes the creation of stained glass without lead and the subsequent pioneering of a dramatically enhanced Pointillism 15 in glass as well as the creation of sculptural stained glass works analogous to collage made primarily or entirely of lead The latter two advances are described as having taken stained glass as an art form to its zero point in each direction absolute transparency and complete opacity c A lifelong exponent of the integration of art and architecture his architectural collaborations include work with Zaha Hadid 17 Norman Foster 18 Arata Isozaki Oscar Niemeyer I M Pei Cesar Pelli and Renzo Piano 19 He served a seven year term as chairman of The Architecture Foundation 20 and served on the Design Review Committee of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment 21 His artistic collaborations have included work with David Bailey Hugh Hudson Malcolm McLaren and with Linda McCartney and Paul McCartney Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Work 2 1 1970s 2 2 1980s 2 3 1990s 2 4 2000s 2 5 2010s to present 3 Selected projects 3 1 Selected realised projects 3 2 Selected unrealised projects 4 Recognition and roles 5 Awards and honours 6 Selected exhibitions 7 Television and film 8 Bibliography 8 1 Publications 8 2 Contributions 8 3 Monographs and catalogues 9 Gallery 10 Notes 11 References 12 External linksEarly life and education editBrian Clarke was born in Oldham Lancashire to Edward Ord Clarke a coal miner and Lilian Clarke nee Whitehead a cotton spinner Raised in a family familiar with Spiritualism his maternal grandmother was a notable local medium Clarke attended a Spiritualist Lyceum throughout his childhood 22 and was considered a sensitive gaining a reputation locally as a boy medium d Aged 12 he applied for a place in the last intake of an education scheme existing in the north of England to enable artistically promising children to leave their secondary school and become full time art students 22 23 and was awarded a scholarship to the Oldham School of Arts and Crafts 24 In place of a standard curriculum he principally studied the arts and design learning drawing heraldry pictorial composition colour theory pigment mixing and calligraphy among other subjects 22 Considered a prodigy by the age of 16 Clarke had mastered the orthodoxies of academic life drawing In 1968 he and his family moved to Burnley and too young at 15 to gain entrance to Burnley College of Art he lied about his age and was accepted on the strength of his previous work 22 In 1970 Clarke enrolled in the Architectural Stained Glass course at North Devon College of Art and Design graduating from the Diploma in Design with a first class distinction 22 In 1974 he was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellowship 25 to study religious art in Italy France and West Germany He was inspired by the post war German school of stained glass artists and in particular the artist Johannes Schreiter In 1976 Clarke received the Churchill Extension Fellowship to study art in architecture and contemporary painting in the United States where he connected with the art of and later befriended Robert Rauschenberg Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol Work editIn his career Clarke has advanced new approaches across a range of mediums including stained glass mosaic collage painting and drawing 1970s edit nbsp Baptistery windows designed and fabricated in 1976 by Clarke for F X Velarde s 1932 1934 Art Deco church of St Gabriel Blackburn 26 27 Clarke received his first architectural commission at the age of 17 However his suite of 20 windows for the Church of St Lawrence Longridge 1975 28 is considered his first mature work Here the use of transparent glass has a Pop Art sensibility the see through panes embrace the everyday by letting the real world in In 1976 Clarke received a large scale commission from the University of Nottingham to produce 45 paintings vestments and a series of stained glass windows for a multi faith chapel in the Queen s Medical Centre One of the largest public art commissions of the decade the process of design and installation was filmed by the BBC as material for a documentary 29 In the early years of his career most of Clarke s work was for religious buildings However by 1978 his relationship with the Church had become untenable as his designs were constantly being modified The ending of this relationship freed Clarke to create stained glass for secular contexts and advance the medium as social art Throughout this period Clarke was active in bringing attention to stained glass and promoting it as a modern medium In 1975 he organised the travelling exhibition Glass Art One which featured secular autonomous stained glass panels inspired in part by Japanese landscape painting 30 Later he co curated GLASS LIGHT an extensive survey of twentieth century stained glass with British war artist John Piper and art historian Martin Harrison 31 in collaboration with the artist Marc Chagall as part of the 1978 Festival of the City of London 32 Clarke also produced the book Architectural Stained Glass 33 a polemical collection of essays In his painting Clarke developed a strictly abstract Constructivist language of geometric signs often his work had an underlying grid structure made from repetitions and variations on the cross In later years he would disrupt the grid with free flowing amorphic forms In 1977 Punk hit the UK which had a deep impact on Clarke He connected with Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren and later collaborated as a designer on their aborted zine Chicken whose creation was funded by EMI and filmed by BBC s Arena 34 He also expressed Punk s nihilistic energy in the 1977 series of paintings Dangerous Visions 1977 Around the same time Clarke became friends with the physical chemist Lord Snow After Snow s death he made a tributary portfolio of screenprints their title The Two Cultures referenced Snow s influential 1959 Rede Lecture on the perceived gulf between the humanities and sciences In 1983 the Tate acquired an edition of The Two Cultures 35 Between 1978 and 1979 the BBC filmed Clarke s studio practice and life for an hour long BBC Omnibus documentary 36 Brian Clarke The Story So Far 37 Millions watched the documentary in the UK and the BBC recorded multiple viewer complaints The programme and subsequent press coverage including Clarke s appearance on the cover of Vogue photographed by Robert Mapplethorpe brought him to broader public attention Later in 1979 Clarke became a presenter on the BBC2 arts programme Mainstream and the BBC Radio 4 programme Kaleidescope conducting interviews with figures including Brassai Andy Warhol John Lennon and Elisabeth Lutyens He also gave Sheffield band The Human League their first television appearance 1980s edit nbsp Oil painting by Clarke from the Via Crucis series titled And He is Condemned 1983 exhibited at the reopening of the Robert Fraser Gallery In the 1980s Clarke was instrumental in bringing stained glass into the public sphere He received his first international commission for paintings a wooden construction and a suite of stained glass windows for the Olympus European Headquarters Building in Hamburg completed in 1981 Marking a major shift in his own practice and breaking with tradition he had the windows made at a studio in Germany The experience of their immersive colour prompted critics to describe them as the Colour Field of stained glass Another development in this work is Clarke s liberation of the lead line from being a purely structural element where the lead breaks free it takes on an expressive quality In the same year receiving a commission from the Government of Saudi Arabia for the Royal Mosque of King Khalid International Airport Clarke studied Islamic ornament at the Quran schools in Fez Following this in 1984 the architectural practice Derek Latham and Co asked Clarke to collaborate on the refurbishment of Henry Currey s Grade II listed Thermal Baths in Buxton Satisfying his social ambitions for the medium he enclosed the former Victorian spa in a barrel vaulted skin of stained glass bathing the public space in an immense blue light 38 It is one of Clarke s earliest works to have been designed to have a deliberate nocturnal presence nbsp Victoria Quarter Leeds modern abstract stained glass canopy by Brian Clarke at Cross Arcade junction 1990 In 1988 architect Arata Isozaki approached Clarke to collaborate on the Lake Sagami Building in Yamanishi 39 Clarke designed a composition of stained glass for the central lantern 40 and a series of interrelated skylights that referenced elements of Isozaki s building In the same period Clarke collaborated with Norman Foster and his architectural practice Foster Partners to design stained glass for Stansted Airport s new terminal building For the first time in the history of stained glass computer assisted design was utilised in its visualisation and design Partly for security reasons the design couldn t be used The final commission was for two friezes and a 6 metre high tower of stained glass While their abstract constructivist forms resonated with Foster s language Clarke has recently expressed how the medieval technology of lead and stained glass was at odds with the material qualities of High tech architecture 41 An urge to resolve this conflict later spurred Clarke to embrace the most cutting edge glass technology Equally experimental across other mediums Clarke s painting practice was also inspired by technology Noticing the similarity between the reticular Constructivist derived symbols that dominated his work and the light metering computergrams from Olympus OM System cameras he produced a series of technology related paintings including Time Lag Zero for the headquarters of Olympus Optical UK During this period Clarke produced the cover painting for Paul McCartney s solo album Tug of War designing the cover with Linda McCartney He also created the stage designs for Paul McCartney s World Tour 1989 90 nbsp The stained glass windows and dome and ceramic and carved wood Torah ark of the New Synagogue Darmstadt designed by Clarke 1990s edit Continuing to work collaboratively with leading architects Clarke started to challenge the traditional containment of stained glass within a frame and fashion entire facades from glass When Future Systems the architectural practice of Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete asked Clarke to collaborate on The Glass Dune 1992 he proposed an internal skin of art for their innovative boomerang shaped building which was never realised Collaborating later with expressionist architect Will Alsop on the design of Hotel du Departement des Bouches du Rhone which became known as Le Grand Bleu Clarke clad the building in an Yves Klein blue glass A landmark in the city of Marseille the building is now considered a major work of late 20th century architecture 42 Desiring lighter and more expansive fields of glass Clarke continued searching for new technologies Working with architect Zaha Hadid on a proposal for the Spittelau Viaducts Housing Project Vienna he developed a new type of mouth blown glass which he christened Zaha Glas Although this project was never realised the newly developed Zaha Glas 43 was first used architecturally in Clarke s scheme for the ceiling of Pfizer World Headquarters in New York a landmark architectural art project that connected 42nd and 43rd Streets in Manhattan Working with Foster on the design for the Al Faisaliyah Centre Riyadh Saudi Arabia installed 1999 Clarke abandoned the medieval technology of glass and supportive lead entirely and conceived a novel solution that involved firing a ceramic frit glaze into float glass The new glass had a lightness that matched Norman Foster s High tech building Clarke however continued to use traditional medieval technologies in other architectural contexts Clarke continued to be active in other mediums in addition to stained glass In 1993 he created the set designs for Paul McCartney s New World Tour 1993 one of the sets was a collage of stained glass through the ages The following year Clarke had a joint show with Linda McCartney The exhibition Collaborations showed works by both artists and collaborative pieces in which McCartney s photos were silkscreened onto mouth blown glass using a process of their own devising In 1998 the English High Court severed all ties between Francis Bacon s former gallery Marlborough Fine Art 44 and the Estate of Francis Bacon Clarke was appointed sole executor of the Estate of Francis Bacon acting on behalf of Bacon s heir John Edwards 45 Clarke transferred representation of Francis Bacon to the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York where an exhibition was mounted of seventeen previously unseen Bacon paintings recovered from his studio Clarke brought a second court case against Marlborough Fine Art alleging that the gallery had underpaid Bacon for his work asserted undue influence over him 46 and failed to account for up to 33 of his paintings 47 Following Edwards diagnosis with lung cancer in 2002 the litigation was settled out of court with each side paying its own costs During the legal process an undisclosed number of Bacon s paintings were recovered from Marlborough and vast quantities of correspondence and documents relating to the life of the artist were handed over by the gallery 48 In 1998 Edwards and Clarke donated the contents of Bacon s studio at 7 Reece Mews London left untouched since Bacon s death to the Hugh Lane the Dublin City Gallery 49 50 What followed was a unique conservation project A decision was taken to preserve the studio as it stood and a team of archaeologists art historians conservators and curators were involved in the move from London to Dublin 51 The locations of over 7 000 items were documented and in Dublin the studio was rebuilt using all the original doors flooring walls and ceiling 50 and the items were placed exactly as they were left The studio opened to the public in 2001 accompanied by the first ever database to list the contents of an artist s studio 52 nbsp Stained glass skylight by Clarke 120 sq metres total Inspired by William Walton s Orb and Sceptre Coronation March and executed for The Spindles in Oldham 1993 2000s edit Continuing to advance his architectural vision for stained glass in 2015 Clarke orchestrated the site specific exhibition Lamina at the Gagosian Gallery London where floor to ceiling stained glass depicting golden leaves transformed the gallery space and immersed the visitors illuminated natural forms Nature became a central theme for Clarke s work in these years In an interview Clarke acknowledged feeling close to Henri Matisse who had worked in stained glass and whose work often glorified the wonders of nature Nature also inspired Clarke s stained glass and ceramic works at Mall Cottages in West London Clarke worked with Norman Foster on the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation a landmark building in Nur Sultan Kazakhstan built to house the triennial Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions 53 Clarke s 9 700 square expanse of stained glass crowns the apex of the pyramid installed 2006 featuring imagery of soaring doves 54 55 In another example of Clarke breaking the medieval relationship between glass and lead in the 2000s he took the radical step to inverse their relationship and began fashioning works entirely of lead In these autonomous lead works Clarke often uses the somber weightiness of lead to explore darker themes like mortality His leadwork Don t Forget the Lamb 2014 is a memorial to his late mother In this period nature inspired Clarke s work in other mediums as well His drawings of flowers use negative space as an expressive element isolating the flowers in empty space with his signature nervy line This is seen in his later series Night Orchids exhibited at PACE Gallery in 2016 56 Clarke s collages are equally experimental the carefully chosen often torn fragments and chalk drawings build an image that attempts to capture the essence of the flower depicted In a radical gesture Clarke brought the language of collage to stained glass in a wrap around window at Peel Cottage installed 2009 where he incorporated fragments of medieval glass within a contemporary design 2010s to present edit In 2010 Clarke was commissioned to design stained windows for the new Papal Chapel of the Apostolic Nunciature the diplomatic embassy of the Holy See to Great Britain for the 2010 visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United Kingdom the first ever state visit made by a pope to Britain 57 The exhibition The Art of Light 2018 in Norwich highlighted Clarke s free standing glass panels While their folding structures draw inspiration from Japanese folding screens they explore a new context for stained glass no longer confined to the fabric of a building but nevertheless having a strong architectural impact on whatever space they inhabit The subject matter of these panels is diverse many depict flowers and nature s opulence in vivid colour but there are also images of intense grief and Pop inspired subject matter A Pop sensibility also runs through his Caryatids panels 2002 which depict muscular young men in beachwear by the sea The work received criticism when it was shown at Christie s London in 2011 reflective of the traditionalist values that surround the medium of stained glass In 2015 Clarke curated A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense A Portrait of Robert Fraser an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in association with Pace Gallery together with author Harriet Vyner whose cult biography 58 of Fraser Groovy Bob Clarke had contributed to The 2014 solo exhibition Spitfires and Primroses with the Pace Gallery juxtaposed two recent series of works pairing oil paintings of the Second World War aircraft arranged in a heraldic seme with watercolours of English primroses The show revealed an underlying disquiet to Clarke s botanical imagery This aspect resonated later in his paintings of poppies which formed the exhibition Vespers at Phillips London in 2021 In 2020 it was announced that a new Blue Coat School was to be built in Oldham Clarke s hometown named the Brian Clarke Church of England Academy 59 to provide free school places to 1 200 pupils 60 The academy was granted planning permission in April 2021 61 with construction completed in 2023 and its first intake of pupils in September 2023Selected projects editSelected realised projects edit 1976 Stained glass for the east window of All Saints Church Habergham Burnley 1977 Paintings vestments and stained glass for the design of the Queen s Medical Centre Chapel University of Nottingham 1981 Stained glass for the Lavers amp Barraud Building Endell Street London 1981 Paintings and stained glass for the lobby of Olympus Optical Europa GmbH Headquarters Building Hamburg 1982 Stained glass for the skylight and clerestory main hall library and office of the King Khalid International Airport Mosque Riyadh 1984 Doha Palace designed a series of sculptural stained glass and windows for the new Government Building Doha Qatar 1986 Modular Assemblage painting installation for Texas Instruments headquarters Dallas Texas 1986 Stained glass barrel vaulted roof of the Cavendish Arcade Derbyshire 1988 Stained glass for the central lantern tower and skylights of the Lake Sagami Country Club Yamanishi Japan 1988 Stained glass and Torah shrine for the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue Neue Synagoge Darmstadt 1989 Creation of stained glass covered arcade at the Victoria Quarter Leeds 1989 Stage sets for the Paul McCartney World Tour 1989 Stained glass roofs for the Spindles Shopping Centre Oldham 1990 Painting and stained glass for Cibreo Restaurant Tokyo 1991 Stained glass frieze and tower Stansted Airport 1992 Stained glass tower windows for Edificio Telefonica Barcelona Telephone Exchange Placa Catalunya for the 1992 Summer Olympics 1992 Tapestries and stained glass for Associated Newspapers headquarters the Carmelite Victoria Embankment London 1993 Designed the stage sets for the Paul McCartney New World Tour 1993 Stained glass for the North wall of the EAM Building Kassel Germany 1993 Stage sets for The Ruins of Time Rudolf Nureyev tribute ballet choreographed by Wayne Eagling Dutch National Ballet Amsterdam 1994 Mosaic for W H Smith amp Sons Mill Hill House Abingdon Oxon 1994 Compact disc covers of the Sir William Walton music catalogue EMI Classical 1995 Stained glass roof lights and mosaic for Centre NorteShopping Rio de Janeiro 1995 Stained glass windows for the Cistercian Abbaye de la Fille Dieu Romont 1995 Stained glass and mosaic ceiling for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals World Headquarters Emery Roth and Sons Building New York 1996 Stained glass facade for Valentino Village Noci Bari 1996 Sculptural stained glass artwork The Stamford Cone for UBS Swiss Bank Corporation headquarters Stamford Connecticut 1997 Stained glass for The Chicago Sinai Synagogue 2000 Stained glass facade and mosaic floor for Olympus Optical Europa Headquarters Hamburg 2000 Stained glass wall for Al Faisliah Complex Riyadh 2001 Stained glass facade for Pfizer Inc 42nd Street amp 2nd Ave New York 2005 Design for stained glass for the choir windows Linkoping Cathedral Sweden 2006 Stained glass apex and windows of the Pyramid of Peace Astana 2010 Stained glass for the Papal Chapel of the Apostolic Nunciature London 2011 Mosaic entrance hall for private home St James London 2015 Stained glass mosaic ceramics tiles and door and window furniture for a private house in Chiswick Mall London 2015 Design of the new Fellowship Medallion for the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 2018 Design of the Beaverbrook Country Club Coach House Spa Cherkley Court 2018 St James Gesamtkunstwerk entrance hall of private London home St James Park 2021 Stained glass The Red Room Bar Connaught Hotel London Selected unrealised projects edit 1992 The Glass Dune Ministry of Environment Building Hamburg Germany 1994 Stained glass window for Clinical Research Building and Hammersmith Hospital Cancer Centre with Jan Kaplicky Future Systems 1994 Designs for stained glass ceiling and mosaic floor for Friedrichstadt Passagen Quartier 206 Berlin 1994 Collaborative proposal with Zaha Hadid for stained glass and mosaic at Spittelau Viaducts Housing Project Vienna 1994 Designs for stained glass and Torah ark for Aachen Synagogue 1995 Design for stained glass wall for the refurbishment of the entrance lobby of the United Nations Headquarters New York 1996 Proposal for the Great Auditorium Paris Opera Bastille 1997 Design for stained glass and mosaic RWE Energie AG Headquarters Essen Germany 1997 Designs for windows of Heiliggeist Kirche Heidelberg Germany 1997 Design for stained glass Chep Lap Kok Airport Hong Kong 1998 Design for stained glass roof and water sculptures for Neiman Marcus and Fashion Show Mall Las Vegas Nevada USA 2000 Design for a glass sculpture Holborn Place London 2001 Design for stained glass facade for West Winter Garden Canary Wharf London 2003 Stained glass design for south elevation facade Great South Grandstand Ascot Racecourse 2011 Design for cast bronze and stained glass plaza sculpture The Shard London Bridge 2017 Designs for stained glass transept windows Salisbury CathedralRecognition and roles edit1983 2020 Council Member Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 62 1989 present Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts 1992 Visiting professor Centre del Vidre Barcelona 1993 present Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1994 Visiting professor of Architectural Art Bartlett Institute of Architecture UCL 63 1995 2008 Trustee The Stained Glass Museum Ely 1998 present Chairman and sole executor of The Estate of Francis Bacon 2000 2005 Board member Design Review Committee for the Commission of Architecture and the Built Environment 2001 present Governor of Capital City Academy 2001 present Trustee The Lowe Educational Charitable Foundation 2002 2013 Trustee The Architecture Foundation 64 65 66 2007 2013 Chairman of The Architecture Foundation 64 65 66 2007 2020 Trustee Winston Churchill Memorial Trust 62 2016 present Chairman and trustee of the Zaha Hadid FoundationAwards and honours edit1974 Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship 1975 Churchill Fellowship Extension 1988 Europa Nostra Award Gold Medal Cavendish Arcade Buxton 1991 Leeds Award for Architecture Victoria Quarter Civic Trust Award Victoria Quarter 1996 Award for Fine Architecture Heidelberg 2007 Honorary D Litt Huddersfield University 2012 Honorary Liveryman Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Master Glass Painters 2018 Doctor of Humane Letters Virginia Theological Seminary 2021 Honorary Fellow Arts University Bournemouth Clarke was knighted in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to art 67 68 Selected exhibitions edit1975 Brian Clarke Glass Art One Mid Pennine Arts Association Arts Council of Great Britain 22 69 1979 GLASS LIGHT with John Piper and Marc Chagall Festival of the City of London 22 69 1981 Brian Clarke New Paintings Constructions and Prints with the Robert Fraser Gallery Royal Institute of British Architects London 69 1982 British Stained Glass Centre International du Vitrail Chartres France 69 1982 Brian Clarke Serigraphien und Mosaik Franz Mayer sche Hofkunstanstalt Munich 69 1983 Brian Clarke Paintings opening exhibition of the new Robert Fraser Gallery London 69 1983 Black White with Jean Michel Basquiat Robert Fraser Gallery London 69 1986 Brian Clarke Stained Glass Seibu Museum of Art Yurakacho Tokyo 69 1987 Brian Clarke Paintings 1976 1986 Seibu Museum of Art Ikebukuro Tokyo Yao Seibu Exhibition Hall Yao Osaka 69 1988 Brian Clarke Malerei und Farbfenster 1977 1988 Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt 69 1988 Die Architektur der Synagoge Architecture of the Synagogue Deutsches Architekturmuseum German Architecture Museum Frankfurt 69 3 1989 Brian Clarke Paintings The Indar Pasricha Gallery Hauz Khas New Delhi Pyrri Art Centre Savolinna 69 1990 Brian Clarke Into and Out of Architecture The Mayor Gallery London 69 1990 Brian Clarke Architecture and Stained Glass Sezon Museum of Art Tokyo 69 1992 Light and Architecture in collaboration with Future Systems Ingolstadt 69 1993 Images of Christ Northampton Museum St Paul s Cathedral London 69 1993 Brian Clarke Designs on Architecture Oldham Art Gallery Oldham 69 1993 Architettura e Spazio Sacro nella Modernita Architecture and the Sacred Space in the Modern Age with architect Alfred Jacoby Venice Biennale of Architecture 69 1998 The Glass Wall Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York 69 1998 Brian Clarke Linda McCartney Collaborations Musee Suisse du Vitrail Romont Switzerland Deutsche Glasmalerei Museum Linnich Germany 69 2002 Brian Clarke Transillumination Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York 70 2002 Flowers for New York Steuben Gallery Corning Museum New York 71 2005 Lamina Gagosian Gallery London 71 2011 The Quick and the Dead Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 24 2011 Brian Clarke Works on Paper 1969 2011 Phillips de Pury Saatchi Gallery London 72 2013 Between Extremities Pace Gallery New York 73 2014 Piper amp Clarke Stained Glass Art or Anti Art The Verey Gallery and Eton College Eton 74 75 2015 Spitfires and Primroses PACE London 2016 Night Orchids PACE London 2018 Brian Clarke The Art of Light Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts Norwich 76 77 2020 Brian Clarke On Line Arts University Bournemouth 78 Brian Clarke The Art of Light Museum of Arts and Design New York 79 2021 Vespers Phillips Berkeley Square London Television and film editBBC Omnibus Brian Clarke The Story So Far Diana Lashmore BBC One 15 March 1979 80 81 Mainstream presenter BBC Two 1979 Time Lag Zero Impressions of Brian Clarke Celebration Granada Television 1980 Linda McCartney Behind the Lens contributor Nicholas Caxton Arena BBC One 1992 82 Architecture of the Imagination The Window contributor Mark Kidel BBC Two 1994 83 Architecture of the Imagination The Stairway contributor Mark Kidel BBC Two 1994 Omnibus Norman Foster contributor Mark Kidel BBC One 1995 84 Eye over Prague Jan Kaplicky Oko Nad Prahou contributor Olga Spatova 2010 Frank Brangwyn Stained Glass a catalogue contributor Malachite Art Films Libby Horner 2010 85 Colouring Light Brian Clarke An Artist Apart With contributions from Sir Peter Cook Dame Zaha Hadid and Martin Harrison Mark Kidel BBC Four 2011 86 Bibliography editThis is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources Publications edit Architectural Stained Glass Brian Clarke With contributions by John Piper Patrick Reyntiens Johannes Schreiter and Robert Sowers Architectural Record Books McGraw Hill New York 1979 ISBN 0 07 011264 9 WORK Brian Clarke Steidl Verlag 2009 ISBN 978 3 86521 633 5 Christophe Brian Clarke Steidl Verlag 2009 87 A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense A Portrait of Robert Fraser Brian Clarke with Harriet Vyner Pace Gallery London 2015 ISBN 978 1 909406 16 2 Contributions edit David Bailey s Trouble and Strife Thames and Hudson 1980 Into The Silent Land Yoshihiko Ueda Kyoto Shoin 1990 Glasbilder Johannes Schreiter 1987 1997 A cry in the wilderness Beispiel Darmstadt 1997 Groovy Bob The Life and Times of Robert Fraser Harriet Vyner Faber amp Faber 1999 Paul McCartney Paintings Bulfinch 2000 ISBN 978 0821226735 Ludwig Schaffrath 1924 2011 an appreciation The Journal of Stained Glass Vol XXXIV The British Society of Master Glass Painters 2010 ISBN 978 0 9568762 0 1 Burne Jones Vast acres and fleeting ecstasies The Journal of Stained Glass Vol XXXV The British Society of Master Glass Painers 2011 ISBN 978 0 9568762 1 8 Monographs and catalogues edit Brian Clarke Working Drawings With contributions by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens Salisbury St Edmunds Arts Centre 1979 Brian Clarke By Martin Harrison With contributions by Johannes Schreiter and Patrick Reyntiens London Quartet Books 1981 ISBN 0 7043 2281 1 Brian Clarke Paintings London Robert Fraser Gallery 1983 Brian Clarke Microcosm Stained Glass and Paintings Tokyo The Sezon Museum of Modern Art 1987 Brian Clarke Malerei und Farbfenster 1977 1988 With contributions by Johannes Schreiter and Sir Peter Cook Darmstadt Hessisches Landesmuseum 1988 ISBN 3 926527 13 7 Brian Clarke Into and Out of Architecture With contributions by Sir Norman Foster Sir Peter Cook Arata Isozaki Ryu Niimi and Paul Beldock London The Mayor Gallery 1990 Brian Clarke With contributions by Paul Beldock Japan Art Random and Kyoto Shoin International 1990 Brian Clarke Designs on Architecture Introduction by Paul Beldock Oldham Oldham Art Gallery 1993 Brian Clarke Architectural Artist London Academy Editions 1994 ISBN 1 85490 343 8 Les Vitraux de la Fille Dieu de Brian Clarke Die Glasgemalde der Fille Dieu von Brian Clarke Edited by L Abbaye Cistercienne de la Fille Dieu a Romont Museee suisse du vitrail a Romont Bern Benteli 1997 ISBN 9783716510865 Brian Clarke Linda McCartney Collaborations Edited by Stefan Trumpler Musee suisse du vitrail a Romont Bern Benteli 1997 Fleur de Lys Brian Clarke London Faggionato Fine Arts 1998 Brian Clarke Projects New York Tony Shafrazi Gallery 1998 ISBN 978 1 891475 13 9 Brian Clarke Transillumination Edited by Martin Harrison New York Tony Shafrazi Gallery 2002 ISBN 1 891475 22 3 Brian Clarke Lamina With contributions by Martin Harrison London Gagosian Gallery 2005 ISBN 1 932598 18 9 Don t Forget the Lamb New York Phillips de Pury amp Company 2008 Christophe Steidl 2009 ISBN 978 3865217721 Brian Clarke Life and Death Edited by Stefan Trumpler Romont Vitromusee Romont 2010 ISBN 978 3716516713 Brian Clarke Atlantes amp Astragals With contributions by Martin Harrison and Hans Janssen London Christie s 2011 Brian Clarke Works on Paper 1969 2011 London Phillips de Pury and Company 2011 Brian Clarke Between Extremities With contributions by Martin Harrison and Robert C Morgan New York PACE Gallery 2013 ISBN 978 1 935410 39 3 Spitfires and Primroses 2012 2014 Works 1977 1985 With contributions by Amanda Harrison and Martin Harrison London PACE Gallery 2015 ISBN 978 1909406155 Night Orchids With contributions by Robert Storr London HENI Publishing 2016 ISBN 978 0993316104 The Art of Light Brian Clarke With contributions by Sir Norman Foster and Paul Greenhalgh London HENI Publishing and Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts 2018 Brian Clarke On Line Poole TheGallery Arts University Bournemouth 2020 ISBN 978 0 901196 82 8 88 Spitfires London HENI Publishing 2020 ISBN 978 1 912122 01 1 Vespers Introductory essay by Robert Storr London HENI Publishing 2021 ISBN 978 1 912122 35 6Gallery edit nbsp The East window of All Saints Church Habergham 1976 nbsp Stained glass of Olympus Optical Headquarters Hamburg 1981 nbsp Stained glass window for the former Lavers and Barraud Building Endell Street 1981 nbsp Nocturnal view of the Cavendish Arcade s stained glass canopy at Buxton Thermal Baths nbsp North wall of the New Synagogue Darmstadt nbsp The street length canopy of Victoria Quarter Leeds the largest stained glass work in Great Britain nbsp Victoria Quarter nbsp Interior view of Clarke s Stamford Cone 1999 a 14m high stained glass sculpture for the headquarters of UBS nbsp The Stamford Cone formerly the largest freestanding glass structure ever made during fabrication nbsp Stained glass window by Clarke for the 12th century Cistercian Abbaye de la Fille Dieu Romont 1996 nbsp The Spindles by Brian Clarke in his home town of Oldham celebrating the music of Sir William Walton nbsp Clarke s painted stadia and arena set designs for Paul McCartney s 1989 1990 World TourNotes edit If the earnest boy from Oldham was bemused to find himself the toast of the glitterati he wasn t bedazzled If you re a well known plumber you meet well known electricians I suppose It s just the circle you move in And my friendships with Paul McCartney or Francis Bacon or Andy Warhol that s just what happens in life But he adds with a glimmer of reproof I ve got friends who aren t famous I even have friends who aren t dead 10 Including the early use of screen printing incorporation of photography 13 the origination of techniques allowing the inclusion of two colours in a single sheet of opaque glass and the development of bonding techniques including multi lamination 14 His major contributions to the medium are the removal of structural or outline delineating lead through the production of seamless stained glass and conversely the production of related works created without glass formed of calligraphic lead solder on sheet lead 16 As a teenager I went through the usual adolescent excitements to do with quasi religious quasi artistic things and the closest to home was spiritualism So I went through all the procedures that young spiritualists in the 1960s went through and became what they call a medium It wasn t a preoccupation that consumed much of my life but it gave me a reservoir of imagery I find thrilling To be frank I think my art is still in what you might call mediumship 10 References edit Greenhalgh Paul 2020 Ceramic Art and Civilisation London Bloomsbury Visual Arts Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ISBN 9781474239707 Wrathmall Susan 2005 Pevsner Architectural Guides Leeds Yale University Press pp 24 5 38 159 61 225 ISBN 0 300 10736 6 a b Schwartz Hans Peter 1988 Die Architektur Der Synagoge Frankfurt am Main Deutsches Architekturmuseum p 306 Sudjic Deyan 2010 Norman Foster A Life in Architecture Hachette UK ISBN 9780297864424 Rick Poynor April 1990 Master of the Matrix Blueprint United Kingdom Dadomo Giovanni July 1981 The Artist Today The Face No 15 Harvey Paul 1 March 2013 Doing the right things for the right reasons Looking for authenticity in Punk and Stuckist practice Punk amp Post Punk 2 1 43 71 doi 10 1386 punk 2 1 43 1 Crichton Miller Emma 4 February 2011 The Great Glass Elevator Financial Times Retrieved 3 October 2019 Amaya Mario June 1984 Clarke s New Constructivism Studio International 197 1005 a b c Dickson Jane 15 21 October 2011 Magic of glass Meet Brian Clarke Britain s star of stained glass with a papal blessing Radio Times United Kingdom Immediate Media Company Limited Johnson David 4 October 2009 Spandau Ballet the Blitz kids and the birth of the New Romantics The Observer The Guardian Retrieved 8 January 2020 Trumpler Stefan 1997 Brian Clarke Linda McCartney Collaborations Romont Musee Suisse du Vitrail ISBN 3 7165 1086 6 Lister David 23 February 1998 Glass act Linda turns Paul into an art revival The Independent Retrieved 30 October 2019 Jenkins David 8 September 2010 Brian Clarke rock star of stained glass The Telegraph Retrieved 25 December 2018 Greenhalgh Paul June 2018 The Art of Light Brian Clarke London HENI Publishing The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts ISBN 9781912122172 Harrison Martin November 2018 Alchemy Stained Glass and Modernism London HENI Publishing ISBN 978 1912122158 Moonan Wendy 26 January 1995 The World Under Glass The New York Times Retrieved 25 October 2019 Holledge Richard 10 August 2018 The luminous stained glass of Brian Clarke Financial Times Retrieved 25 December 2018 Louie Elaine 16 January 2013 Stained Glass from Churches to Malls Q amp A with Brian Clarke The New York Times Clarke takes over from Alsop Design Week Vol 4 no February 2007 Online 19 February 2007 Retrieved 9 October 2019 Brian Clarke appointed new Chairman of the Architecture Foundation Press release London The Architecture Foundation BLAH PR February 2007 a b c d e f g Harrison Martin Schreiter Johannes Patrick Reyntiens 1981 Brian Clarke Paintings and Projects foreword by Liz Finch ed 1st ed London Quartet Books ISBN 978 0 7043 2281 3 OCLC 7971383 OL 3197315W Archived from the original on 14 April 2023 Retrieved 14 April 2023 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link The Two Cultures Brian Clarke and Zaha Hadid in conversation Tate Retrieved 24 December 2018 a b Brian Clarke The Quick and the Dead Kunstmuseum Den Haag Gemeentemuseum The Hague 16 April 2014 Retrieved 10 December 2019 David Jenkins Baker Phillipa 2001 Foster Catalogue 2001 London Foster and Partners Prestel Verlag ISBN 1854903578 Hobhouse Janet February 1980 An Old Art Renewed Quest 80 Quest Best Alastair August 1978 Brian Clarke The Architectural Review CLXIV 978 109 111 Reyntiens Patrick 1979 Elements of Architecture The Window In Schofield Maria ed Decorative Art and Modern Interiors Themes in Nature Vol 68 London Studio Vista Cassell Ltd p 152 ISBN 0289708605 Brian Clarke Johannes Schreiter Martin Harrison Ludwig Schaffrath John Piper Patrick Reyntiens 1 October 1979 Brian Clarke ed Architectural Stained Glass edited by Brian Clarke London New York City McGraw Hill Education p 153 ISBN 978 0 7195 3657 1 LCCN 79000211 OCLC 6213441 OL 21255634M Wikidata Q111514300 Wolfenden Ian 1976 Brian Clarke Glass Art One Crafts No Jan Feb 1976 London Crafts Council p 50 Harrison Martin 1978 GLASS LIGHT England The City Arts Trust Limited p 24 ISBN 0704322811 Martin Harrison Robin Aldworth Spring 1979 Tate R L C ed Light and Stained Glass PDF Thorn Lighting Journal 20 Thorn Industries 13 17 Retrieved 26 September 2019 Brian Clarke s Story WCMT org Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Archived from the original on 25 September 2019 Retrieved 25 December 2018 Gorman Paul 2020 The Life and Times of Malcolm McLaren The Biography London Constable p 464 ISBN 978 1 47212 108 0 The Tate Gallery 1982 84 Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions London Tate Publishing UK December 1986 ISBN 978 0946590490 Spalding Frances 1990 The Dictionary of British 20th Century Painters and Sculptors England p 120 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a CS1 maint location missing publisher link Diana Lashmore 15 March 1979 Brian Clarke The Story So Far film TV documentary England BBC TV 132930 Hills Ann April 1987 Buxton s New Landmark Building Refurbishment Arata Isozaki Architecture 1960 1990 New York Rizzoli International The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles 1991 p 291 The art of glass New Scientist No 1956 17 December 1994 Retrieved 22 October 2019 Clarke Brian Norman Foster and Robert Storr 2020 November 13 Conversation between Brian Clarke Norman Foster and Robert Storr HENI Talks 1 L Hotel du Departement Departement des Bouches du Rhone 16 September 2016 Retrieved 2 July 2020 Spittelau Viaducts Housing Project Brian Clarke Archived from the original on 7 January 2023 Retrieved 7 January 2023 Delarge Jean Pierre Bacon Francis The Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Plastic Arts Dictionnaire des arts plastiques modernes et contemporains in French Delarge Retrieved 7 December 2020 Gibbons Fiachra 23 March 2000 Gallery cheated Bacon out of tens of millions The Guardian Retrieved 22 October 2019 Boggan Steve 31 October 2001 Bacon blackmailed by art gallery owner court told in dispute over 100m fees The Independent Retrieved 22 October 2019 Boggan Steve 28 November 2001 I wooed Bacon with Claridge s champagne but London gallery cheated me says dealer The Independent Retrieved 22 October 2019 Boggan Steve 2 February 2002 Battle called off between Bacon estate and gallery The Independent Retrieved 22 October 2019 Clarke Brian Detritus Francis Bacon The Estate of Francis Bacon Retrieved 25 November 2019 a b Francis Bacon Studio History of Studio Relocation Archived 1 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine The Hugh Lane Dublin City Council Retrieved 25 November 2019 Removal of 7 Reece Mews Francis Bacon The Estate of Francis Bacon Retrieved 25 November 2019 Francis Bacon Studio Artist s Studio Museum Network Watts Gallery Retrieved 25 November 2019 Pearman Hugh Foster designs the pyramid of peace The Sunday Times Retrieved 18 October 2019 Harrod Tanya 2015 Brian Clarke glass artist The real thing essays on making in the modern world London Hyphen Press pp 134 137 Mayer Gabriel ed 2013 Artist Portrait Brian Clarke Architecture Glass Art PDF Munich Hirmer p 234 ISBN 978 3 7774 5251 7 Archived from the original PDF on 7 February 2020 Retrieved 8 January 2020 Night Orchids With contributions by Robert Storr London HENI Publishing 2016 ISBN 978 0993316104 Cripps Charlotte 30 September 2010 Glowing panes Brian Clarke s stained glass windows have earned him global recognition and the papal thumbs up The Independent Retrieved 8 January 2020 Vyner Harriet 15 June 2017 Groovy Bob The Life and Times of Robert Fraser Heni Publishing ISBN 978 0 9930103 9 2 Oldham academy named after stained glass artist BBC News 14 April 2021 Retrieved 15 April 2021 Jackson Nick 10 November 2020 Name finalised for new school in Oldham town centre The Oldham Times Newsquest Media Group Ltd Archived from the original on 12 November 2020 Green Charlotte 23 July 2021 Huge new secondary school given green light to be built in Oldham town centre Manchester Evening News Retrieved 26 July 2021 a b Trustees amp Council WCMT Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Archived from the original on 27 December 2019 Retrieved 27 December 2019 Honorary and visiting academics The Bartlett School of Architecture University College London 14 November 2016 Retrieved 22 October 2019 a b The Architecture Foundation Board of Trustees Architecture Foundation The Architecture Foundation Archived from the original on 22 December 2018 Retrieved 8 October 2019 a b Vaughan Richard 15 February 2007 Artistic Licence at the AF Architects Journal Retrieved 8 October 2019 a b Simon Allford Announced as New Chair of The Architecture Foundation s Board of Trustees Allford Hall Monaghan Morris 29 November 2013 Retrieved 8 October 2019 permanent dead link No 64269 The London Gazette Supplement 30 December 2023 p N2 O Neill Laura 29 December 2023 New Year Honours 2024 Stained glass artist given knighthood BBC News The British Broadcasting Corporation Retrieved 5 January 2024 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Exhibitions and Projects list In Foster Norman Frantz Susanne K Clarke Brian Brian Clarke Projects Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York ISBN 1 891475 13 4 Brian Clarke Transillumination exhibition catalogue Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York ISBN 1 891475 22 3 a b Martin Harrison 2005 Lamina London Gagosian Gallery Crichton Miller Emma The Great Glass Elevator In The Journal of Stained Glass Vol XXXIV British Society of Master Glass Painters 2010 pp132 138 ISBN 1 891475 22 3 Brian Clarke Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Between Extremities Pace Gallery New York Fraser Jenkins David Harrison Martin Meredith Michael Waldegrave William Piper amp Clarke Stained Glass Art or Anti Art exhibition catalogue The Verey Gallery Eton College 2014 Piper and Clarke Stained Glass Art or Anti Art Eton College Collections Retrieved 21 October 2020 Major show by the world s leading stained glass artist at the Sainsbury Centre PDF Press release Norwich Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts HENI July 2018 Archived from the original PDF on 30 October 2019 Retrieved 30 October 2019 Clarke Brian 26 June 2018 Capturing light stained glass art for the modern age BBC Radio 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