Sir Brian Clarke

Sir Brian Clarke was a British painter, architectural artist, and printmaker widely regarded as the most important contemporary artist working in stained glass. A full-time art student on scholarship by age thirteen, he came to prominence in the late 1970s through both his painting — associated with the Punk movement — and his innovations in architectural glass, collaborating with Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, I.M. Pei, and Oscar Niemeyer.

Clarke’s work is held by the Tate, the V&A, the Centre Pompidou, and the Dallas Museum of Art, among others. He was knighted for services to art in 2025.