Brian Clarke: Don't Forget The Lamb

Brian Clarke: Don’t Forget the Lamb is the catalogue of the eponymous 2008 exhibition of paintings and stained glass works at Phillips de Pury, New York. This catalogue captures the first exhibition of Clarke’s lead and stained glass works featuring the human skull, alongside leadwork triptychs from the ‘Don’t Forget the Lamb’ series, presenting a new twist on stained glass. Brian Clarke: Don’t Forget the Lamb provides a window onto this era of his work.

Brian Clarke: Don’t Forget the Lamb is the catalogue of the eponymous 2008 exhibition of paintings and stained glass works at Phillips de Pury, New York. This catalogue captures the first exhibition of Clarke’s lead and stained glass works featuring the human skull, alongside leadwork triptychs from the ‘Don’t Forget the Lamb’ series, presenting a new twist on stained glass. Brian Clarke: Don’t Forget the Lamb provides a window onto this era of his work.

Clarke explains in this catalogue, interviewed by Doris Lockhart Saatchi:

‘After the death of my mother and someone else close to me, I started doing these leadworks, particularly the skulls, colour had been sucked out of life for me briefly, and I didn't feel that I could authentically engage with optimistic colour for a while. As I worked on the skulls, colour began to show up bit by bit and with each work I put my foot back into the world a little deeper. But when you see, as TS Eliot says in his poem, Whispers of Immortality, 'the skull beneath the skin', you realize that in the midst of living, death is with us, and I wanted to stay with the skulls.’