Brian Clarke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Brian Clarke

British artist

Date of Birth: 02-Jul-1953

Place of Birth: Oldham, England, United Kingdom

Profession: professor, painter, visual artist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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About Brian Clarke

  • Brian Clarke (born 2 July 1953) is a British architectural artist, painter and printmaker, known for his large-scale stained glass projects, abstract and symbolist canvases, and collaborations with major figures in contemporary architecture. 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, buoyed by the energy of the Punk movement, and by the early 1980s had become a major figure in international contemporary art, the subject of several television documentaries and a café society regular known for his architectonic art, prolific output in various media, friendships with celebrities and key cultural figures, and polemical lectures and interviews. His practice in architectural and autonomous stained glass, often on a monumental scale (three of his works have successively held the position of largest stained glass work in the world, and the Stamford Cone was the largest free-standing glass structure ever made), has led to successive innovation and invention in the fabrication of the medium, including the early use of screen printing, incorporation of photography, the origination of techniques allowing the inclusion of two colours in a single sheet of opaque glass, the development of bonding techniques including multi-lamination, the pioneering of a 'dramatically enhanced Pointillism' through application of the Ben Day process, and the creation of sculptural stained glass works, analogous to collage, made primarily of lead.
  • 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. A lifelong exponent of the integration of art and architecture, his architectural collaborations include work with Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Arata Isozaki, Oscar Niemeyer, I.
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  • He served a 7-year term as chairman of The Architecture Foundation, and served on the Design Review Committee of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
  • His artistic collaborations have included work with David Bailey, Hugh Hudson, Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney and Ivor Abrahams.

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