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Brian Clarke (artist)
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Full Name
Brian Clarke
Nationality
British
Name
Brian Clarke
Role
Artist
Born
2 July 1953 (age 71) (
1953-07-02
)
Oldham, Lancashire, England
Education
Studied at Burnley College of Art and Bideford Art School (N. Devon)
Known for
Painter and Stained Glass Artist
Website
[2] www.brianclarke.co.uk
Artwork
Holocaust memorial in Darmstadt
Brian Clarke (born 2 July 1953) is a British artist; a painter and architectural stained glass designer who has, most notably, worked in stained glass.
Colouring light brian clarke an artist apart web clip
Biography
Clarke was born in Oldham, Lancashire. In 1965, on a Junior Scholarship, he attended the Oldham School of Arts and Crafts. He went on in 1968 to Burnley School of Art. In 1970 he enrolled at the North Devon College of Art and Design where he went on to receive a first class distinction in Diploma in Art and Design. In 1974, he was awarded the Winston Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellowship to study art and architecture in Rome, Paris and Germany. The second part of the Fellowship was spent in Los Angeles and New York. He is now a trustee of that institution.
Working frequently in architecture, his paintings, stained glass, mosaic and tapestry works can be found in architectural settings and private and public collections internationally.
Brian Clarke's works include a stained glass installation at Apax & Partners' London HQ, Pyramid of Peace and Accord in Kazakhstan, the Al Faisaliyah Center in Riyadh, the Pfizer World Headquarters in New York and the Swiss Bank Cone in Connecticut.
Projects include work with the Seibu Museum of Art in Tokyo; the AGM group headquarters in Kassel, Germany; The Hotel du Department des Bouches-du Rhone, Marseille; The Lake Sagami building, Japan; Dutch National Ballet, Amsterdam; King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Norte Shopping, Rio de Janeiro; Spindles Shopping Mall, Oldham; Cavendish Arcade, Buxton;Victoria Quarter, Leeds; Abbaye de la Fille-Dieu, Romont, Switzerland and 100 New Bridge Street, London.
He worked on designs for the Shard at London Bridge.
Brian Clarke is a visiting Professor of Architecture Art at University College London, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Honorary Doctorate, University of Huddersfield, Chairman of the Architecture Foundation and Sole Executor of the Estate of Francis Bacon.
Paintings and stained glass, Lobby of Olympus Optical Europa GmbH, Headquarters Building, Hamburg, 1981
Stained glass, Baptistery windows at St. Gabriel's Church, Blackburn, England, 1976
Stained glass, East window of All Saints Church, Habergham, England, 1976
Exhibitions
2013
Piper & Clarke. Stained Glass: Art or Anti-Art, The Verey Gallery and Eton College, Eton, UK, 16 November 2013 - 7 April 2014
Between Extremities, Pace Gallery, New York, 17 Jan - 16 Feb, 2013
2012
Love Him More (An exhibition of paintings, stained glass and works on paper), Kristy Stubbs Gallery, Dallas, 8 Dec 2011 - 12 Jan 2012 [4]
2011
The Quick and the Dead: New paintings by Brian Clarke, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, Netherlands, 28 May - 14 August 2011 [5]
Atlantes and Astragals (an exhibition of paintings and stained glass), Christie's, London, 10–22 December 2011 [6]
Paint Tube Inspiration, Saatchi Gallery, London, March 2011
Brian Clarke: Works on Paper 1969-2011, Phillips de Pury at the Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Road, London, 28 February - 27 March 2011
2010
Brian Clarke: Life and Death, Vitromusée, Au Château, Romont, Switzerland, 21 November 2010 - 13 July 2011
2008
Don't Forget the Lamb, Phillips de Pury, 450 West 15 Street, New York, 13 September - 18 December 2008 [7].
Mosaic Path, 2008
2005
Lamina, Gagosian Gallery, London, 29 April - 23 July 2005
2002
Brian Clarke: Transillumination, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, 4 November - 13 December 2002
Flowers for New York: A tribute to New York in Stained Glass and Painting on Canvas, The Corning Gallery at Steuben, 667 Maddison Avenue, New York, 23 January - 7 April 2002
2000
Fashion Acts, exhibition and auction of photographs initiated to help people affected by HIV/AIDS (Sponsored by Olympus), Mulberry, 41-42 New Bond Street, London, 6 November - 24 December 2000
1998
The Glass Wall (Dedicated to Linda McCartney), Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA, 12 June - 12 September 1998
Brian Clarke - Linda McCartney, Deutsche Glasmalerei-Museum (German Stained Glass Museum), Linnich, Germany, May - October 1998
Fleurs de Lys: New Paintings, Faggionato Fine Arts, London, May - June 1998
80 Artistes autour du Mondial, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, June - July 1998
1997
Brian Clarke - Linda McCartney, Musée Suisse du Vitrail, Romont, Switzerland, 30 August 1997 - 28 April 1998
1995
Fazit ’95, The Collection of the Langen Museum for Contemporary Stained Glass, Altes Rathaus Langen, Germany, 10 March - 29 October 1995
Exempla ’95, Chamber of Commerce for Munich and Bavaria, Munich, Germany, 11–19 March 1995
1994
Brian Clarke: Paintings and Stained Glass, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA, 10 December 1994 - 4 February 1995
1993
Images of Christ, Northampton Museum and St. Paul's Cathedral, London, 1993
Brian Clarke: Designs on Architecture, Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, Lancashire, 2 October - 9 November 1993
Brian Clarke: New Paintings, The Mayor Gallery, London, 15 September - 29 October 1993
Architecture and the Sacred Space in the Modern Age (with architect Alfred Jacoby), Venice Biennale, 1993
