Colouring Light: Brian Clarke - An Artist Apart
Documentary profile of painter Brian Clarke, one of the world's greatest stained glass artists and a man who has collaborated with some of the world's leading architects.
Brian Clarke is one of Britain's hidden treasures. A painter of striking large canvases and the designer of some of the most exciting stained glass in the world today, he is better known abroad - especially in Germany and Switzerland - than in his own country and more widely recognised among critics, collectors and gallery owners than he is by the general public.
In this visually striking documentary portrait made by award-winning film-maker Mark Kidel, Clarke returns to Lancashire where he grew up as a prodigy in a working class family and charts his meteoric rise during the punk years and eventual success as a stained glass artist working with some of the world's great architects, including Norman Foster and Arata Isozaki - and producing spectacular work in Japan, Brazil, the USA and Europe.
Contributors include his close friend and architect Zaha Hadid, architect Peter Cook and art historian Martin Harrison.
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Credit
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Director | Mark Kidel |
Broadcasts
- Mon 17 Oct 2011 22:00
- Tue 18 Oct 2011 02:30
- Wed 19 Oct 2011 02:00
- Wed 30 Jan 2013 01:30
- Wed 20 Nov 2013 01:25
- Wed 12 Nov 2014 02:50
- Wed 13 Apr 2016 02:00
- Mon 24 Jul 2023 23:20
- Wed 26 Jul 2023 00:00