Brian Clarke

Brian Clarke FRIBA FRSA (born 2 July 1953) is a British architectural artist, painter and printmaker, known for his large-scale stained glass and mosaic projects, abstract and symbolist canvases, and collaborations with major figures in Modern and contemporary architecture.

This article is about the British architectural artist and painter. For other uses, see Brian Clarke (disambiguation).
Brian Clarke

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

(1953-07-02) 2 July 1953
Oldham, Lancashire, England
NationalityBritish
EducationOldham School of Arts and Crafts; North Devon College of Art
Known forPainting, drawing, stained glass, Gesamtkunstwerk, tapestry, stage design, mosaic, ceramics
Notable work
Architectural Stained Glass; Royal Mosque, KKIA; Victoria Quarter;[1] Holocaust Memorial Synagogue, Darmstadt;[2] Abbaye de la Fille-Dieu;[3] Paul McCartney New World Tour; Pyramid of Peace and Reconciliation[4]
Television
  • Brian Clarke: The Story So Far (1979)[5]
  • BBC Two Mainstream (1979)
  • Time Lag Zero: Impressions of Brian Clarke (1980)
  • Colouring Light: Brian Clarke - An Artist Apart (2011)[6]
OfficeChairman of the Estate of Francis Bacon[7]
Term1998 - present
Spouse(s)
Liz Finch
(m. 1972; div. 1996)

(m. 2013)
Websitewww.brianclarke.co.uk

Born to a working-class family in the north of England, and a full-time art student on scholarship at 13, Clarke came to prominence in the late 1970s as a painter and figure of the Punk movement[8] and designer of ecclesiastical stained glass, and by the early 1980s had become a major figure in international contemporary art,[5] the subject of several television documentaries and a café society regular known for his architectonic art, prolific output in various media,[9] friendships with celebrities and key cultural figures,[10][11][lower-alpha 1] and polemical lectures and interviews.

His practice in architectural and autonomous stained glass, often on monumental scale[12] has led to successive innovation and invention in the development of the medium,[lower-alpha 2] including the early use of screen printing, incorporation of photography,[14] the creation of stained glass without lead and the subsequent pioneering of a 'dramatically enhanced Pointillism',[15] and 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 to its zero-point in each direction: absolute transparency, and, conversely, complete opacity.[lower-alpha 3]

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 7-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, Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney and Ivor Abrahams.

Biography

Early life

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 a notable local medium, Clarke attended a Spiritualist Lyceum through his childhood.[22] Growing up in an environment where the non-material world was considered to be naturally present and able to interact with the material, he was considered a ‘sensitive’ and gained a reputation locally as a 'boy medium'.[lower-alpha 4] In 1965, aged 12, he applied for a place as 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,[6] 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]

1970s
Two slender baptistery windows, each 18ft x 1ft, designed and fabricated in 1976 by Clarke for F. X. Velarde's 1932-1934 Art Deco church of St Gabriel, Blackburn.[25][26]

In 1970 Clarke enrolled in the Architectural Stained Glass course at North Devon College of Art and Design, from which he graduated two years later with a first class distinction in their Diploma in Design.[22] In 1971, aged 17, he received his first commission, for a series of windows in the Grade II* listed Southcott Barton, a 17th-century residential home, and the following year received his first ecclesiastical commission, for a memorial window in Preston Parish Church.[22] In August 1972, he married his fellow art student Liz Finch, the daughter of a local vicar, opened a stained glass studio in Preston,[27] and began to take on work including painting restoring, designing lamps, repairing damaged ecclesiastical glass, as well as working independently as a painter.[28] This was followed by a commission for a new window for Coppull Church, Lancashire, in 1973,[27] and further secular stained glass commissions, for which he painted, fired, leaded, assembled and installed the windows and panels himself,[22] transporting them on a local bus.[27] Further local ecclesiastical commissions followed.

Clarke in his studio in 1976, with stained glass cartoons for the churches of Thornton-le-Fylde and St Lawrence, Longridge, and Nottingham University's Queen's Medical Centre.

In 1974 Clarke was awarded the Winston Churchill Memorial Travelling Fellowship[13] to study medieval and contemporary stained glass in Italy, France and West Germany.[29] That same year he received a commission for a suite of 20 windows for the Church of St Lawrence, Longridge, considered to be his first mature work, and in 1975 was awarded the Churchill Extension Fellowship to study art in architecture in the United States.[29] Later in 1975 Clarke moved to Birchover, Derbyshire, renting a vicarage as home and studio from the local church authorities – he later designed and gifted a suite of windows to the parish church, St Michael and All Angels.[30] A travelling exhibition of secular, autonomous stained glass panels inspired in part by Oriental landscape painting,[31] Glass Art One, was shown at venues in Derbyshire and Lancashire, including Derby Cathedral and Manchester Cathedral.[22] An internationally notable 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 followed,[32] the process of which was filmed by the BBC as material for a documentary.[28] The research from the two Churchill Trust Fellowships led to the Arts Council of Great Britain-funded exhibition of stained glass GLASS/LIGHT, co-curated by Clarke, British war artist John Piper and art historian Martin Harrison,[33] with the collaboration of Marc Chagall, and produced the book Architectural Stained Glass. [29] GLASS/LIGHT, part of the Festival of the City of London, was the most extensive exhibition of stained glass of the 20th century.[34] In 1978, Clarke controversially appeared on the cover of the journal Architectural Review[35] with a work titled Velarde is Not Mocked.[26] Clarke had been commissioned to design and fabricate two windows for the notable 1930s Art Deco church of St Gabriel’s, Blackburn, by F. X Velarde, which was to be restored, and the windows were designed to complement and respond to the architecture, making reference to the elements of the original design. The building, considered one of the milestones in the development of English church architecture towards modernism, was changed significantly by the restoring architect and the interior and exterior elements were unsympathetically altered.[26] Clarke's public attack on the treatment of the architecture by the restoring firm marked the end of his working in the church. In 1979 he undertook a polemical lecture tour of British universities on the subject of art and architecture, and was the subject of an hour-long BBC Omnibus documentary, Brian Clarke: The Story So Far, which followed a year in his life.[36] Seen by millions of viewers, at a time when the UK had only 3 television channels, the programme received multiple complaints and propelled him into the public eye. 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, and Elisabeth Lutyens, and giving Sheffield band The Human League, of whom he’d been an early supporter, their first television appearance.

1980s
Oil painting by Clarke from the Via Crucis series, titled And He is Condemned (1983), exhibited at the reopening of the Robert Fraser Gallery.

At the start of 1980, Clarke began to paint in oils again after a period of working primarily graphically and in acrylic, and created his first constructions, in wood and steel, and designs for furniture.[22] Clarke accepted a proposal to design stage sets for Kraftwerk,[37] and collaborated on unrealised projects with David Bailey, Brian Eno, and with Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood as designer of the aborted zine Chicken, whose creation was funded by EMI and filmed by BBC's Arena.[38] Noticing the similarity between the reticular, Constructivist-derived symbols that dominated his work and the light-metering computergrams from the Olympus OM System cameras, he produced a series of technology-related paintings including one titled Time Lag Zero for the headquarters of Olympus Optical (UK). Its unveiling at Langan's Brasserie by Patrick Lichfield for the fifth anniversary of Olympus UK was filmed by Granada Television as part of a documentary on Clarke and his work, released by ITV as Time Lag Zero: Impressions of Brian Clarke.[39][40] Later that year, a major commission for paintings, a wooden construction, and a suite of stained glass windows for the Olympus European Headquarters Building in Hamburg was executed, for which Clarke was given 'complete freedom of the design of the entrance hall for the new building',[22] and, starring in a series of adverts for Olympus and for Polaroid, he became a household name in the UK and the United States. The complexity of the stained glass designs for Hamburg necessitated the development of special diamond cutting and sandblasting techniques to accommodate the graphic, non-structural role of the lead in places, and marked the start of Clarke's manufacturing his windows in Germany rather than England, a major break with tradition.[lower-alpha 5]

The Royal Mosque at King Khalid International Airport, completed in 1982 as the largest stained glass project of the modern era.

In 1981, Clarke was invited to teach as a visiting artist at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington, with Patrick Reyntiens and Dale Chihuly, for the summer education programme. Clarke introduced all-day life-drawing classes, intensively teaching academic drawing from the life in place of glass painting techniques with the aim of opening up 'new ways of looking at glass design'.[41] Later that 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. A portfolio of screenprints, dedicated to his friend C. P. Snow called 'The Two Cultures' (after Lord Snow's influential 1959 Rede Lecture on the perceived gulf between the humanities and sciences of the same name) was published, and he became the first artist to have an exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects, with a solo show of his paintings, constructions and prints. That year, the first monograph on his work, Brian Clarke by Martin Harrison, was published, and the Victoria and Albert Museum acquired a large-scale stained glass triptych, executed by him in 1979,[42] and an oil painting titled Trial and Error.[22] The Royal Mosque, completed in 1982 and containing 2,000 square metres of stained glass, was considered to be the largest and technically most advanced stained glass project of the modern period,[9] requiring the full staff of 4 stained glass factories and 150 craftsmen,[43] taking a year to fabricate. Urged by his art dealer Robert Fraser to leave Britain to avoid the gossip columns and paparazzi,[8] Clarke moved to live and work in Düsseldorf and Rome.

Brian Clarke (centre) giving evidence at the 1984 Mies van der Rohe building inquiry with Peter Cook, Lord Palumbo and Robert Fraser.
The stained glass central lantern and skylights of Arata Isozaki’s 1988 Lake Sagami Building, a collaboration with Clarke.

In 1982, Clarke produced the cover painting for Paul McCartney's solo album Tug of War, designing the cover together with Linda McCartney.[44] In 1983 the Tate acquired an edition of The Two Cultures[45] and Fraser, a key figure of the Swinging Sixties who first brought to Europe the work of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, reopened his gallery on Cork Street in London with a show of Clarke's paintings and with the aid of funding from him.[13][46] The opening night received significant press coverage, and public interest and celebrity attendance led to the opening party spilling out into the street,[47] necessitating its closure by police cordon. Before its closure following Fraser's death in 1986, the gallery went on to exhibit and introduce to the British public the works of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Ellsworth Kelly, both of whom Clarke exhibited with, and Keith Haring. In 1984, Clarke was commissioned to contribute to the refurbishment of Joseph Paxton's Thermal Baths on the Royal Crescent in Buxton;[48][49] his scheme, designed in 1984 and completed in 1987, was for a barrel-vaulted stained glass canopy to enclose the Grade II-listed former baths, creating the Cavendish Arcade. Functioning as a local landmark,[50] the work, which was the largest stained glass work in Britain until 1989, and remains Britain's largest stained glass window, is visible from the surrounding hills at night when it is lit internally. In 1988, architect Arata Isozaki approached Clarke to collaborate with him on the Lake Sagami Building in Yamanishi.[51][52] Clarke designed a composition of stained glass for the central lantern and a series of interrelated skylights that internally referenced elements of Isozaki’s building and early designs, for which Isozaki in turn designed a lighting system that turned the work and building into a beacon at night.

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

1990s

In 1998, Clarke and John Edwards donated the contents of the artist Francis Bacon's studio to the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin.[53][54] The studio at 7 Reece Mews had remained largely untouched since Bacon's death in 1992, and the decision was taken to preserve it for posterity. A team of archaeologists, art historians, conservators and curators moved the studio, wholesale, to Dublin.[55] The locations of over 7,000 items were mapped, survey drawings made, the items packed and catalogued, and the studio was rebuilt, including the original doors, floor, walls and ceiling.[54] In 2001 the relocated studio was opened to the public, with a fully comprehensive database, the first computerised record of the entire contents of an artist's studio.[56]

Clarke (Executor of the Will of Francis Bacon) v Marlborough Fine Art

Following the death of Clarke's friend Francis Bacon in 1992, in 1998 the English High Court severed all ties between Bacon's former gallery, Marlborough Fine Art, and his estate, and Clarke was appointed sole executor of the Estate of Francis Bacon by the High Court,[7][57] on behalf of Bacon's heir John Edwards.[58] Clarke transferred representation of Francis Bacon to the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in New York, where a major show was mounted of 17 previously unseen Bacon paintings recovered from his studio. A court case was brought against Marlborough, Professor Brian Clarke (Executor of the Will of Francis Bacon) v Marlborough Fine Art (London), alleging that the Gallery had underpaid Bacon for his work, asserted undue influence over him,[59] and failed to account for up to 33 of his paintings,[60] but following John 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".[61]

2000s

In 2004, Clarke collaborated 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.[62] Initial designs incorporated a stained glass ramp throughout the pyramidical structure; completed in 2006,[63] the transparent upper portion is clad in 9700 square feet of stained glass, which forms the pyramid’s apex.[48][64]

Stage sets designed by Clarke for the Hugh Hudson-directed adaptation of Robert Ward's opera The Crucible/Hexenjagd, 2015

Work

Paintings, stained glass, screenprints, collage, constructions, ceramics, mosaic, fresco, furniture, sculpture, tapestry, jewellery and ironmongery by Clarke can be found in architectural settings and private and public collections internationally, including the Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum,[42] the Bavarian State Painting Collections at Museum Brandhorst, Munich, the Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and the Corning Museum of Glass, New York.[65][66]

Major works include the five-story stained glass wall in the lobby of the Al Faisaliyah Center in Riyadh for the King Faisal Foundation,[67] the largest stained glass work in the world between 2000 and 2017, and Stansted Airport; 21,528 sq ft of stained glass for the Royal Mosque at King Khalid International Airport);[68][19] the mosaic and stained glass ceiling of Pfizer World Headquarters in New York, for which Clarke developed new techniques for the inclusion of two colours in a single sheet of opaque glass (in 1997), and a new stained glass facade (in 2001); stained glass, mosaic, ceramics,[69] and turf-cut chalk drawing for Beaverbrook Coach House and Spa;[70] the Stamford Cone in Connecticut;[71][72] windows for Linköping Cathedral in Sweden;[13] the Papal Chapel of the Apostolic Nunciature to Great Britain;[73] the world's largest stage sets (for Paul McCartney's 1993 World Tour)[74] and both the largest stained glass work in Great Britain and Europe,[75][76][77] and the largest in the world.[78]

Other projects include ecclesiastical commissions in churches, mosques and synagogues across Europe, the US and the Middle East (including the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue in Darmstadt,[79] built on the site of the former Gestapo headquarters,[80] the Heidelberg Synagogue,[81] and the Sinai Temple, Chicago; the screenprinted Yves-Klein blue glass exterior of ‘Le Grand Bleu’, the Hôtel du département des Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseilles (with Will Alsop);[82][83][84] stage sets for Wayne Eagling's Dutch National Ballet tribute to Clarke's friend Rudolf Nureyev, and sets for an opera of The Crucible (Hexenjagd) directed by Hugh Hudson at Staatstheater Braunschweig;[85] the stained glass and mosaic of Norte Shopping, Rio de Janeiro; the Spindles Shopping Mall, Oldham;[86][87] the stained glass ceiling of the Victoria Quarter Arcade in Leeds,[88] which replaced Buxton as the largest stained glass work in the world; windows for the 13th century Cistercian Abbaye de la Fille-Dieu, Romont, Switzerland; collaborations in stained glass[12] and cyanotypes with photographer Linda McCartney; the cover of Terence Davies’ book Hallelujah Now, and EP and album covers for Paul McCartney, Jools Holland, Worldbackwards and EMI Classical.

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)

Unexecuted projects

Clarke's design of stained glass for the Great South Window of the grandstand at Royal Ascot Racecourse, as part of the £185 million 2004-2006 redevelopment funded by Allied Irish Bank and designed by Populous and Buro Happold, was to have been the world's largest work in the medium. The project received royal approval from Queen Elizabeth II, but problems arose during the redevelopment's construction that prevented the installation of the window, as redressing them would have necessitated a delay to reopening the racecourse, leading to the project being scrapped. Commissions for two roundel windows in Derby Cathedral (1976), and for the North Transept windows of Salisbury Cathedral (2014-2019), were not approved by the Church of England. Clarke worked on designs with Norman Foster for incorporating stained glass throughout Stansted Airport, and a glass tower for the Willis Faber and Dumas Building; Renzo Piano for a public sculpture for the Shard at London Bridge;[89] Zaha Hadid on mosaic and stained glass for a building in Spittelau, Vienna, and KAPSARC, Saudi Arabia; with Will Alsop on mosaic and stained glass for Crossrail Paddington, and stained glass for Hungerford Bridge; and stained glass for Stratford International.[13]

Recognition and roles

Brian Clarke is former Visiting Professor of Architectural Art at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London;[90] Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects; Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Hon. Doctor of Law (University of Huddersfield); Doctor of Humane Letters, (Virginia Theological Seminary);[91] former trustee and Chairman of the Architecture Foundation;[92][93][94] Governor of the Capital City Academy Trust; Fellow, Trustee and Council member of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust;[95] Honorary Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass; and a Freeman of the City of London.

Selected exhibitions
  • 1975: Brian Clarke: Glass Art One, Mid-Pennine Arts Association, Arts Council of Great Britain.[22][43]
  • 1979: GLASS/LIGHT (with John Piper and Marc Chagall), Festival of the City of London.[22][43]
  • 1981: Brian Clarke: New Paintings, Constructions and Prints (with the Robert Fraser Gallery), Royal Institute of British Architects, London.[43]
  • 1982: British Stained Glass, Centre International du Vitrail, Chartres, France.[43]
  • 1982: Brian Clarke - Serigraphien und Mosaik, Franz Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt, Munich.[43]
  • 1983: Brian Clarke: Paintings, opening exhibition of the new Robert Fraser Gallery, London.[43]
  • 1983: Black/White (with Jean-Michel Basquiat), Robert Fraser Gallery, London.[43]
  • 1986: Brian Clarke: Stained Glass, Seibu Museum of Art, Yurakacho, Tokyo.[43]
  • 1987: Brian Clarke: Paintings, 1976 - 1986, Seibu Museum of Art, Ikebukuro, Tokyo; Yao Seibu Exhibition Hall, Yao, Osaka.[43]
  • 1988: Brian Clarke, Malerei und Farbfenster 1977 - 1988, Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt.[43]
  • 1988: Die Architektur der Synagoge (Architecture of the Synagogue), Deutsches Architekturmuseum (German Architecture Museum), Frankfurt.[43][2]
  • 1989: Brian Clarke: Paintings, The Indar Pasricha Gallery, Hauz Khas, New Delhi; Pyrri Art Centre, Savolinna.[43]
  • 1990: Brian Clarke: Into and Out of Architecture, The Mayor Gallery, London.[43]
  • 1990: Brian Clarke: Architecture and Stained Glass, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo.[43]
  • 1992: Light and Architecture (in collaboration with Future Systems), Ingolstadt.[43]
  • 1993: Images of Christ, Northampton Museum; St. Paul's Cathedral, London.[43]
  • 1993: Brian Clarke: Designs on Architecture, Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham.[43]
  • 1993: Architettura e Spazio Sacro nella Modernita (Architecture and the Sacred Space in the Modern Age) (with architect Alfred Jacoby), Venice Biennale of Architecture.[43]
  • 1998: The Glass Wall, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA, 1998[43]
  • 1998: Brian Clarke—Linda McCartney, Musée Suisse du Vitrail, Romont, Switzerland; Deutsche Glasmalerei-Museum, Linnich, Germany.[43]
  • 2002: Brian Clarke: Transillumination, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York; 2002[96]
  • 2002: Flowers for New York, The Corning Gallery, New York.[97]
  • 2005: Lamina, Gagosian Gallery, London.[97]
  • 2011:The Quick and the Dead, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag.[24]
  • 2011: Brian Clarke: Works on Paper 1969-2011, Phillips de Pury at the Saatchi Gallery, London.[98]
  • 2013: Between Extremities, Pace Gallery, New York.[99]
  • 2014: Piper & Clarke. Stained Glass: Art or Anti-Art, The Verey Gallery and Eton College, Eton.[100]
  • 2015: Spitfires and Primroses, PACE London.
  • 2016: Night Orchids, PACE London.
  • 2018: Brian Clarke: The Art of Light, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich.[101][102]

Television and film
  • Omnibus – Brian Clarke: The Story So Far. Diana Lashmore, BBC One, 15 March 1979.[5][105]
  • Mainstream (presenter). BBC Two, 1979.
  • Time Lag Zero: Impressions of Brian Clarke. Granada Television, 1980.
  • Linda McCartney: Behind the Lens (contributor). Nicholas Caxton, Arena, BBC One, 1992.[106]
  • Architecture of the Imagination - The Window (contributor). Mark Kidel, BBC Two, 1994.[107]
  • Architecture of the Imagination - The Stairway (contributor). Mark Kidel, BBC Two, 1994.
  • Omnibus – Norman Foster (contributor). Mark Kidel, BBC One, 1995.
  • Eye over Prague/Jan Kaplický – Oko Nad Prahou (contributor). Olga Špátová, 2010.
  • Frank Bragwyn: Stained Glass – a catalogue (contributor). Malachite Art Films/Libby Horner, 2010.[108]
  • Colouring Light: Brian Clarke - An Artist Apart. With contributions from Sir Peter Cook, Dame Zaha Hadid, and Martin Harrison. Mark Kidel, BBC Four, 2011.

Bibliography

Publications
  • 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. ISBN 978-3865217721
  • A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense: A Portrait of Robert Fraser, Brian Clarke. PACE London, 2015. ISBN 978-1-909406-16-2

Contributions
  • 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
  • Brian Clarke: Working Drawings. With contributions by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens. St. Edmunds Arts Centre, Salisbury, 1979.
  • Brian Clarke by Martin Harrison. With contributions by Johannes Schreiter and Patrick Reyntiens. Quartet Books, 1981. ISBN 0-7043-2281-1
  • Brian Clarke: Paintings, Robert Fraser Gallery, London, 1983.
  • Brian Clarke: Microcosm (Architecture and Stained Glass), The Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 1987.
  • Brian Clarke: Malerei und Farbfenster 1977-1988. With contributions by Johannes Schreiter and Sir Peter Cook. Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, 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. The Mayor Gallery, 1990.
  • Brian Clarke. With contributions by Paul Beldock. Art Random, Kyoto Shoin International, Japan, 1990.
  • Brian Clarke: Designs on Architecture. Introduction by Paul Beldock. Oldham Art Gallery, Lancashire, 1993.
  • Brian Clarke: Architectural Artist, 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. Le Museée Suisse du Vitrail à Romont, Bern; CH: Benteli, 1997.
  • Brian Clarke/Linda McCartney: Collaborations. Edited by: Dr. Stefan Trümpler, Le Musée Suisse du Vitrail à Romont, Bern; CH: Benteli, 1997.
  • ‘Fleur de Lys’: Brian Clarke. Edited by: Faggionato Fine Arts, London, 1998.
  • Brian Clarke – Projects. Edited by: Tony Shafrazi Gallery (catalogue for Brian Clarke – The Glass Wall), 1998. ISBN 978-1-891475-13-9
  • Brian Clarke – Transillumination. Edited by: Martin Harrison, 2002. ISBN 1-891475-22-3
  • Brian Clarke – Lamina. With contributions by Martin Harrison. Gagosian Gallery, 2005. ISBN 1-932598-18-9
  • Don’t Forget the Lamb, Phillips de Pury & Company, 2008.
  • Brian Clarke: Life and Death. Stefan Trümpler, Vitromusée Romont, Editions Benteli, 2010.
  • Atlantes and Astragals. With contributions by Martin Harrison and Hans Janssen. Christie’s, Gemeentemuseum/Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 2011.
  • Brian Clarke: Works on Paper, Phillips de Pury and Company, 2011.
  • Brian Clarke: Between Extremities. With contributions by Martin Harrison and Robert C. Morgan. PACE Gallery, New York, 2013. ISBN 978-1-935410-39-3
  • Brian Clarke: Spitfires and Primroses 2012-2014/Works 1977-1985. With contributions by Amanda Harrison and Martin Harrison. PACE Gallery, 2015. ISBN 978-1909406155
  • Night Orchids. With contributions by Robert Storr. HENI Publishing, 2016. ISBN 978-0993316104
  • The Art of Light – Brian Clarke. With contributions by Sir Norman Foster and Paul Greenhalgh. HENI Publishing/Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2018.
  • Brian Clarke: On Line. TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, 2020. ISBN 978-0-901196-82-8[109]
  • The East window of All Saints Church, Habergham, 1976
  • Stained glass of Olympus Optical Headquarters Hamburg, 1981
  • Stained glass window for the former Lavers and Barraud Building, Endell Street, 1981
  • Nocturnal view of the Cavendish Arcade's stained glass canopy at Buxton Thermal Baths
  • North wall of the New Synagogue, Darmstadt
  • The street-length canopy of Victoria Quarter, Leeds, the largest stained glass work in Great Britain
  • Victoria Quarter
  • Interior view of Clarke's Stamford Cone (1999), a 14m high stained glass sculpture for the headquarters of UBS
  • The Stamford Cone, formerly the largest freestanding glass structure ever made, during fabrication
  • The Pyramid of Peace and Accord in Astana, Kazakhstan
  • The barrel-vaulted canopy of Cavendish Arcade, the largest stained glass window in Britain
  • Interior of the stained glass apex of the Pyramid of Peace
  • Stained glass window by Clarke for the 12th century Cistercian Abbaye de la Fille-Dieu, Romont (1996)
  • The Spindles by Brian Clarke in his home town of Oldham, celebrating the music of Sir William Walton
  • Painting for the cover of the Paul McCartney album Tug of War
  • Will Alsop's Hôtel du Département des Bouches du Rhône, with blue exterior and screenprinted glass cladding by Clarke

Notes
  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 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.[13]
  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]
  5. "In view of the problems of obtaining suitable glass in England and the innovatory nature of some of the techniques which certain aspects of the designs called for, Brian took the unprecedented step of having the windows made in Germany, at the Taunusstein studios of Wilhelm Derix.[22]

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