Peel Cottage Window

The 1982 Peel Cottage Window was the first of three works that Clarke designed for the same space. Clarke explains the origins of this work in 2019:

‘It comes from a particular period in my work, when I was very preoccupied with the grid and ways of undermining it. Grids have always been a source of pleasure for me, probably because they deliver a reliable basis for art to challenge the idea of the constant. If you begin with order, disruption or even chaos will inevitably follow. At the time, I was listening to Ligeti, plus Brian Eno and Kraftwerk, both of whom I worked with. I was appropriating the musical ideas of repetitive structural rhythms being punctuated by sounds that leap free from a matrix.’

The Peel Cottage Window is now on loan to the to the Stained Glass Museum in Ely Cathedral.