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Brian Clarke
Brian Clarke | |
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 Brian Clarke in his studio, 2015 | |
| Born | Brian Ord Clarke 2 July 1953 Oldham, Lancashire, England |
| Education | Oldham School of Arts and Crafts; Burnley School of Art; North Devon College of Art and Design, Bideford |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Known for | Painting, stage design, stained glass, Gesamtkunstwerk,[1] tapestry, mosaic, ceramics |
| Notable work | Architectural 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) |
| Website | www |
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.
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.[16] 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,[18] Norman Foster,[19] Arata Isozaki,[20] Oscar Niemeyer,[21] I. M. Pei, César Pelli, and Renzo Piano.[22] He served a seven-year term as chairman of The Architecture Foundation[23] and served on the Design Review Committee of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.[24] His artistic collaborations have included work with David Bailey, Hugh Hudson, Malcolm McLaren, and with Linda McCartney and Paul McCartney.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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 & 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 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.
- ^ Trümpler, Stefan (1997). Brian Clarke – Linda McCartney: Collaborations. Romont: Musée 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.
- ^ Clarke, Brian; Greenhalgh, Paul (March 2020). Brian Clarke: The Art of Light. p. 26. ISBN 978-1-912122-17-2.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Clarke, Brian; Obrist, Hans Ulrich (October 2023). Brian Clarke: A Great Light. London: HENI Publishing. p. 17. ISBN 978-1912122769.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Clarke, Brian; Obrist, Hans Ulrich (October 2023). Brian Clarke: A Great Light. London: HENI Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-912122-76-9.
- ^ Louie, Elaine (16 January 2013). "Stained Glass, from Churches to Malls: Q&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.
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