Collages

Coinciding with the exhibition Brian Clarke: A Great Light at Newport Street Gallery in 2023, Brian Clarke released ‘Collages’, a series of eight prints after his recent collages, in collaboration with HENI Editions, Fondation Beyeler and Serpentine.

The eight works are based on Clarke’s series of works on paper, in which he turned to the incredibly intimate format of collage to capture the nature around him, using his scissors to ‘draw from life’. In conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2023, Clarke said:

‘I never feel more like I am a legitimate part of nature than when I am making these collages. I feel not like I am portraying nature, but I am just joining in with it and there is no greater reward for an artist.'