Capturing light: stained-glass art for the modern age

When artist Brian Clarke was a young boy, he was inspired by a visit to York Minster and embarked on a life-long fascination with the art form that’s made him the most renowned artist working in stained glass in the world today.

50 years on, his work pushes far beyond traditional leaded medieval windows and have appeared everywhere from religious buildings to shopping centres, such as The Spindles in his home town of Oldham. He’s also collaborated with architects including Zaha Hadid and Norman Foster, but a new exhibition at the Sainsbury Centre in Norwich focuses on smaller, more intimate works - with a sequence of glass folding screens that reveal the radical ways he’s been pushing what the art form can do.