Brian Clarke (Artist)

Brian Clarke, 2007

Brian Clarke (born July 2, 1953 in Oldham , Lancashire , England ) is a British architectural artist, painter and printmaker, known for his large-format stained glass and mosaic projects, abstract and symbolist canvases and his collaboration with prominent figures in modern and contemporary architecture.

Life

Brian Clarke was born in Oldham, Lancashire, to Edward Ord Clarke, a miner, and Lilian Clarke (née Whitehead), a cotton spinner. In 1965, Clarke attended the Oldham School of Arts and Crafts after receiving a youth scholarship. In 1968 he went to the Burnley School of Arts before going to the North Devon College of Art and Design (Bideford Art School) in 1970 . At this college he received an Art and Design Diploma with Honors . A travel grant from the British Winston Churchill Memorial Trust enabled him to study in Rome , France and Germany in the first phase , here with Johannes Schreiter . The second part of the scholarship enabled him to stay in Los Angeles and New York City . Today Clarke is one of the Foundation's trustees.

Clarke is currently Visiting Professor of Architecture at University College London . In Germany he works in Munich with the Mayer'sche Hofkunstanstalt company.

honors and awards

• Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
• Honorary Doctorate from the University of Huddersfield
• Chairman of the Architecture Foundation
• Sole administrator of the estate of Francis Bacon

Works

• 1976: Stained glass for the east window of All Saints Church, Habergham , England.
• 1981: Painting and glass painting for the European headquarters of the Japanese company Olympus in Hamburg .
• 1982: Stained glass and daylight windows in King Khalid International Airport , Riyadh , Saudi Arabia .
• 1985: Autonomous Panel 3 , Glas / Werke Langen, Langen.
• 1987: Stained glass in the barrel-shaped glass roof of the Cavendish Arcade in Buxton (Derbyshire) , England.
• 1988: Stained glass, Yamanishi, Japan, Lake Sagami Country Club.
• 1988: Glass painting, Darmstadt, new synagogue.
• 1989: Stained Glass, Leeds, Victoria Quarter.
• 1990: Stained glass, Tokyo, Japan, Cibreo Restaurant.
• 1994: Glass painting on the north wall of the EAM building in Kassel .
• 1995: Stained glass window in the Cistercian Abbey of La Fille-Dieu in Romont , Canton of Friborg , Switzerland.
• 1998: Stained glass on the windows of the Catholic Church Maria Königin in Obersalbach-Kurhof , Saarland.
• 1998: Glass wall on the back wall of the Jewish Community Center in Offenbach am Main .
• 1998: Glass wall and window of the Synagogue of the Chicago Reformed Congregation Sinai Congregation , Chicago , Illinois, USA.
• 1999: Stamford Cone in front of the UBS main office in the USA in Stamford (Connecticut) , USA.
• 2000: Glass wall in the Corning Museum of Glass , Corning (New York) , USA.
• 2000: Glass wall in the Al Faisaliyah Center , Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• 2001: Glass wall in the headquarters of Pfizer Inc., corner of 150 E 42nd Street and Second Avenue , Manhattan , New York City, USA.
• 2005: Glass attic of the Pyramid of Peace and Unity , Nur-Sultan (until 2019 Astana) , Kazakhstan .
• 2010: Stained glass window in Linköping Cathedral , Sweden.

Exhibitions

• 1988: Brian Clarke: Painting and Color Windows 1977–1988 , Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt .
• 2005: Brian Clarke: Àla vie, à la mort , Romont, Canton of Friborg, Switzerland.
• 2011: The Qick and the Dead. New Paintings by Brian Clarke . Gemeentemuseum Den Haag , The Hague , Netherlands.
• 2015: Brian Clarke: Spitfires and Primroses , Pace Gallery, London.

literature

• Martin Harrison: Brian Clarke , Quartet Books, London 1981, ISBN 0-7043-2281-1 .
• Brian Clarke: WORK , Steidl Verlag, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-633-5 .
• 125 years of Derix Glas Studios , art made of glass in architecture, Dr. Suzanne Behh-Lustenberger (Ed.), 1991.
• Les Vitraux de la Fille-Dieu de Brian Clarke / The stained glass of Fille-Dieu by Brian Clarke , La Fille-Dieu Abbey, Romont. Le Museée Suisse du Vitrail à Romont, Bern; CH: Benteli, 1997.

Web links

• Website of the artist (en.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Langener Glasbild in London in FAZ from January 23, 2015, page 44