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## HENI Primary is delighted to present Collages by Brian Clarke, a series of 327 unique works. 

HENI Primary is delighted to present Collages by Brian Clarke, a series of 327 unique works created in 2022 and 2023. Following on from the HENI Editions release earlier this year, the original artworks are being made available for the first time. For this series, Clarke turned to the incredibly intimate format of collage to capture nature around him, using hand-painted paper and scissors.

The 327 artworks are Acrylic Painted Paper Collage on Black Card in a Black Wooden Frame with Non-Reflective Glass, and measure 52 cm x 40 cm including frame. The artworks are signed by Brian Clarke. Each artwork is priced at $5,000 (plus any applicable taxes). Collectors who originally purchased a HENI Edition of Brian Clarke’s Collages will receive a 10% discount. 

The application period opens on 23 November and closes at 17:00 GMT on 7 December 2023.

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### Brian Clarke

Brian Clarke is an internationally acclaimed artist whose work over the past five decades spans a wide range of genres and mediums. Widely considered the most important artist working in stained glass today, he has revolutionised the medium not only technologically but also philosophically, pushing the boundaries of what it can achieve. Equally important is his pictorial practice, explored in painting, sculpture, lead work, mosaic, drawing, collage and tapestry.

His unique and radical approach has earned him numerous awards and honours, and his artworks have been shown in prestigious collections and institutions worldwide such as The Victoria and Albert Museum, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Corning Museum of Glass New York and Tate London. To learn more about Brian Clarke and his work, visit his [official website](https://brianclarke.co.uk).

<Quote src="Brian Clarke">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 than to feel like he is part of nature.</Quote>

The use of collages has been a part of Brian Clarke’s practice since he first started making stained glass. The artist said, ‘I have been making my designs for stained glass out of cut-out paper and collages since I was a teenager. This is before I knew about Matisse, and it's because it’s the natural way to make them. I think of every one of these collages as being an idea for a stained glass window.’

Flowers, plants, and nature are subjects that Clarke has continually returned to throughout his career and across mediums. In Collages, his subjects are captured with both incredible delicacy and explosive colour, as the semi-abstract, vibrant forms seemingly leap from the page.

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To ensure a fair and broad distribution, Collages are being sold on an application basis for a limited time only. The application period opens on 23 November and closes at 17:00 GMT on 7 December 2023. 

HENI will carefully review each application and aims to start notifying successful applicants over the coming weeks after the application period has closed. 

HENI estimates that all artworks will be dispatched within three months of the close of the application window. Timing is dependent on any potential restrictions, delays and when payment is received. 

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### A Book of Collages

Earlier this year, HENI Publishing released Collages, featuring all of the artworks in the series, as well as an [interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist](https://heni.com/talks/collages-discussion), in which Clarke and Obrist discuss the influence of Clarke’s contemporaries and the intensely personal practice of his work in collage. The book is now available from HENI Publishing and at the Newport Street Gallery exhibition A Great Light.

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### A Great Light exhibition at Newport Street Gallery until 31 December 2023

Clarke’s monumental career and innovative approach to artmaking is celebrated in the exhibition [A Great Light](https://heni.com/blog/article/brian-clarke-a-great-light-exhibition) at Damien Hirst’s [Newport Street Gallery](http://www.newportstreetgallery.com) in London. Open until 31 December, A Great Light tracks his unmatched contribution to the continuous development of the stained glass medium. 200 of the Collages artworks are on view in A Great Light. 

Featuring a range of works from Clarke’s career, including his leadworks and freestanding stained glass panels, and presenting new, monumental works in stained glass and collage, the exhibition presents the various ways Clarke creatively interrogates the materials, effects and construction of stained glass across scale and medium. 

**Exhibition date**
<br>9 June – 31 December 2023 
<br>**Opening hours**
<br>Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 6pm 
<br>**Location**
<br>Newport Street Gallery, 1 Newport Street, London, SE11 6AJ 
 
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Discover Brian Clarke's Collages, a series of 327 unique works released on HENI Primary, available until Dec 7.

Collages – Brian Clarke

HENI Art Club

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## Join HENI Art Club on 29th November 2023 for a talk by renowned art critic and writer Martin Gayford about the history of Venice through pictures.

[HENI Art Club members](https://www.heniartclub.com/membership/) are invited to join an exclusive talk that will take us on visual journey through the history of the city known as ‘La Serenissima’, the ‘Most Serene’. Far from being moribund and sinking, Venice has been remarkable in finding new roles for itself. It remains one of the centres of the world of art, as it has been for 500 years.

Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm and great artists such as the Bellini family, Vittore Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese and Rosalba Carriera worked. The story continues right up to the present, with Yayoi Kusama, Marina Abramović, Sean Scully, Pipilotti Rist, Chris Ofili and Banksy all feature in the narrative. Since the advent of the Venice Biennale in the 1890s, and the arrival of pioneering art collector Peggy Guggenheim in the late 1940s, Venice has become a global centre for contemporary art. 

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Nowhere else has been depicted by so many great painters in so many diverse styles and moods. Views of Venice were a speciality of native artists such as Canaletto and Guardi, but the city has also been represented by outsiders: J.M.W. Turner, Claude Monet, John Singer Sargent, Howard Hodgkin and many more. In the 17th century, Rubens, Van Dyck, Inigo Jones and Velàzquez all came to learn from the masterpieces of Venice. Gayford will also explore how in the 19th century writers such as Henry James, George Eliot and John Ruskin, and the composer Richard Wagner, were deeply affected by the paintings and buildings of Venice. 

### Venice: City of Pictures, a recent publication from Thames & Hudson, is available for HENI Art Club members to enjoy in the digital library.

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Martin Gayford is a writer and art critic. His books include [Michelangelo: His Epic Life](https://www.martingayford.co.uk/books/michaelangelo-his-epic-life/) (Penguin) as well as [multiple publications ](https://www.martingayford.co.uk/books/)on art and artists for Thames & Hudson, including books co- authored with David Hockney, Antony Gormley and David Dawson. He has visited Venice countless times since the 1970s, covered every Biennale since 1990, and even had portraits of himself exhibited there on several occasions.

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Join HENI Art Club on 29th November 2023 for an exclusive talk by renowned art critic and writer Martin Gayford about the history of Venice through its most important creation: pictures. 

Venice: City of Pictures – talk by Martin Gayford

HENI Talks

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## HENI Talks presents 'A Casket of Jewels: The Art and Architecture of Coventry Cathedral'

In the latest HENI Talks film, *A Casket of Jewels: The Art and Architecture of Coventry Cathedral*, art historian and BAFTA-nominated broadcaster Dr James Fox explores the visionary reconstruction of the historic cathedral, and the captivating artworks that it houses. It is, as Fox explains, not only a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture, but also ‘a repository for major works of modern British art’. 

Closely following the near total destruction of Coventry Cathedral during the blitz on 14 November 1940 by the German Luftwaffe, Fox explains that a decision was made to rebuild the cathedral, out of the ashes of war. Sir Basil Spence was named the architect for the reconstruction and made the decision to rebuild the new cathedral next to the old one. For the project, Spence commissioned countless works of art by some of the most notable painters, sculptors and craftspeople in Britain, and the cathedral was eventually opened in 1962.

In the film,  Fox walks viewers around and through the cathedral, highlighting among its most important works of art and architectural features. Across media, styles and techniques, Fox notes how these works are united by their messages of hope and renewal, which are inextricably linked to the cathedral’s history.

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Fox begins with Jacob Epstein’s cast bronze sculpture affixed to the building’s exterior, which depicts the Archangel Michael defeating the devil, a triumph of good over evil. He then moves inside the cathedral and stops at the West Screen, a large clear glass window which features the ‘ghostly’ and ‘translucent’ figures of 66 saints and angels, designed and hand engraved by John Hutton over the span of 10 years. This work connects the old cathedral to the new, linking the cathedral’s past with its present. 

Noting features like the wooden ceiling and the ‘Tablets of the Word’, eight stone panels rendered in the cathedral’s unique font and carved in situ by Ralph Beyer, Fox takes the viewer into the nave, which is flanked by 10 stained glass windows. Designed by Lawrence Lee, Keith New and Geoffrey Clarke, the windows are rendered in a colour scheme requested by Spence to represent a pattern of growth from birth to old age. These windows culminate at the high altar, behind which is Graham Sutherland’s monumental tapestry 'Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph'. Designed to dominate the space from a distance but appreciated up close for its details, the work was once the largest single piece tapestry in the world. 

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From the nave, Fox ventures throughout the cathedral, noting its various chapels and works, such as the lectern eagle and a spiky sculptural structure which evokes the crown of thorns, before he arrives at ‘the pinnacle of this entire complex’: the baptistry windows. Designed by John Piper in collaboration with glassmaker Patrick Reyntiens, the window is actually comprised of a staggering 198 panes using variously sized pieces of glass, its various patterns creating an intensity of light and colour. Some have compared the window  to the explosion that destroyed the old cathedral, Fox himself describes it as ‘like looking into a modernist sunrise’. 

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Explore the art and architecture of Coventry Cathedral with BAFTA nominated art historian Dr James Fox in HENI Talks' insightful film, 'A Casket of Jewels'.

A Casket of Jewels: The Art and Architecture of Coventry Cathedral  

HENI NFT

HENI Editions

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## HENI is delighted to present the physical prints for Great Expectations by  Damien Hirst.

Following the [collection of 10,000 NFTs](https://heni.com/nft/more-info/great-expectations) that Hirst released in 2021, the Great Expectations physical editions are Diasec-mounted Giclée prints on aluminium composite panel, measuring 80 x 80 cm each. The prints are hand-signed on the front by Damien Hirst. 
 
Holders of a Great Expectations NFT can purchase a print of the artwork featured on their NFT. The prints are priced at $2,500 (plus any applicable taxes). Each NFT can be used only once to purchase a physical print. The NFT will be burned in the process. Each of the editions in the series will be unique. 
 
**The purchase window for the Great Expectations prints is open from 9 November 2023 to 18 January 2024 at 17:00 GMT.**

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Released to holders of The Currency NFTs, the Great Expectations NFT collection contains 10,000 unique artworks made by Damien Hirst. At the centre of these artworks are grids of emoji-like pregnant women whose forms have been constructed from spots of various shapes, sizes and colours taken directly from The Currency artworks themselves. The collection references some of the most iconic imagery from Hirst’s monumental career. 
 
While the structure and basic forms are repeated across the series, each NFT is individualised by colour or unique attributes. The attributes are divided into seven categories, which include accessories, clothes, facial features, hair, headwear, occupation and background. Naturally, some attributes or combinations of attributes are rarer than others. 

Each of the Great Expectations NFTs is made unique through its combination of colours or attributes. Each NFT can be used only once to purchase a physical print, which means that each physical edition in the series will be unique. Each print will be numbered on the label and hand-signed by Damien Hirst on the front. 

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 ### How to purchase the Great Expectations physical print 
Please follow the steps below to purchase a physical print of Great Expectations. To purchase a print, you will need a Great Expectations NFT on the Palm network.  
 
If you have any questions, you can explore the [FAQs here](https://customersupport.heni.com/knowledge/damien-hirst#great-expectations-prints). If you want to get in touch, please contact customer care or ask a moderator on [Discord](https://discord.gg/HENI). 
 
#### Choose your artwork 
- Go to the [My NFTs page](https://heni.com/nft/my-nfts) and select the ‘Physicals’ tab. Here you will find the artworks available to purchase as a physical print. Select the artwork you want to purchase and click on the ‘Purchase Now’ button.
- If you would like to purchase a Great Expectations print but don't have an NFT, you can explore this [FAQ article](https://customersupport.heni.com/knowledge/how-do-i-purchase-a-great-expectations-print-if-i-dont-own-an-nft). 
- If your NFTs are not on the Palm network, you are able to use the [bridge](https://app.palm.io/bridge) to transfer the NFTs from Ethereum to Palm. 

#### Complete order details and payment 
- Follow the steps in the purchase flow and carefully fill out your contact information and payment details 
- Once you have confirmed your order details, you are asked to complete payment before moving on to the final step 

#### Burn NFT 
- Upon payment, you are asked to burn the NFT and complete your order. 
- Please follow the instructions on your MetaMask app and authorize the HENI website to access your token. No funds will be taken from your account. 
 
*Please note: this website will have all of the correct links for you to complete your transaction in a safe manner. Do not click on any other links than the ones shared by HENI.*

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Great Expectations unique physical prints hand signed by Damien Hirst, available exclusively to NFT holders until 18 January 2024, from HENI Editions.

Great Expectations Editions – Damien Hirst

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Remember to Dream!

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