The artist who worships stained glass, but detests the modern Church
Isabella Smith | Apollo | 9th June 2023
Clarke apparently faces a “permafreeze of institutional apathy” from British museums. Given his reputation as the world’s preeminent stained glass artist, that’s a shame. He has an illustrious record of architecture-scale commissions and technical innovation and is excited about the medium’s future. That future, he thinks, is not in cathedrals. Despairing of aesthetic interest from the church, the future of stained glass belongs in “the secular urban fabric”. Images are here.
