Scottish artist Jim Lambie at Sadie Coles in London
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Storytelling in Paint in Multiverse at Gazelli Art House
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Celebrating diversity in ‘Beyond Borders’ at Unit London
Staring out into the wintery streets of Mayfair, Zachary Eastwood-Bloom’s statues act as sentinels for what is inside, with a very different work downstairs. Zachary is an Englishman who lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland and his work inspired by classical Greek statuary announces the theme of Unit London’s winter exhibition ‘Beyond Borders’. Not only […]
250 years of the RA Schools in The Garden
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Hooray – a Scottish artist is here: Jim Lambie in Fort Lauderdale
As we know, the Scots have travelled the world and left their footprint all across the globe. It is therefore good to see the Scottish artist Jim Lambie included in the exhibition ‘Transitions and Transformations’ at the NSU Art Museum. When I was last in Fort Lauderdale in March this year, I enjoyed attending the […]
The troubled life of Edvard Munch captured through his printmaking
There seems to be a theme running through many of this spring’s exhibitions in London about the link between art, science, magic and medicine from Smoke and Mirrors at the Wellcome Collection, to What Once Was Imagined at the RSGP, to the collaboration of Grace Pailthorpe and Reuben Mednikoff at Camden Arts and Emma Kunz’s […]
Eighteenth century transformation of a city: Georgian Bath
Put on your black topcoat, brightly coloured waistcoat, elegant trousers and your new polished shoes with their silver buckles, and collect your cane at the door as you saunter out into the most amazing sight – a complete new town being created in neoclassical style, its fresh golden stone shining in the sunshine and the […]
30 years of transformation and fragmentation: Lee Bul at the Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery opened 50 years ago in 1968. Its recent refurbishment by Feilden Clegg Bradley was so sensitive to the original building that visitors probably don’t even realise it happened, having kept the essential character of the brutalist concrete architecture intact, cleaned it up and restored blacked-out roof-lights to allow more (controlled) daylight into […]
New art gallery in a former car park – Bruce McLean at the Bernard Jacobson gallery in London
Founded in 1969 and, until recently, housed in Cork Street, Mayfair, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery is now in Duke Street, opposite Fortnum and Mason. The new gallery, designed by Nick Gowing architects, occupies the former underground car park of the historic French Railways House. The conversion uses a simple palette of materials and cleverly leaves some […]
A new higher education campus at the heart of the community – DIT at Grangegorman in Dublin
Although a short distance from the city centre, a sombre grey stone wall closed off a vast area of land from the heart of the community for as long as anyone could remember – a wall which was not there to keep people out, but rather to keep people in. Many people in the community […]
Is this a new model for the future: Cromwell Place in South Kensington?
The pandemic of the last six months, which looks likely to continue, has challenged many modern ways of doing things. Retailers, and restaurant-owners are having to think through their business models as never before, as competitors fall like skittles, while office occupiers are reappraising what the office of the future will be – probably not […]
American art and Scottish architecture in London: Oren Pinhassi at St Cyprian’s Church
One of the joys of visiting the Venice Biennale is the number of exhibitions of contemporary art on show in historic buildings that you might not otherwise see, often located down canals you would not normally visit. It is as much an architectural discovery as an exploration of new art. The Gallery Edel Assanti has given […]
The Electronic Pulse of the Night Club at the Design Museum
Outside in the green landscape of the August sunshine, the atmosphere in Holland Park in Kensington is peaceful and relaxing, with families walking through the gardens and runners jogging along the paths. Inside the Design Museum, you enter another world, a world that is current closed due to coronavirus, the world of pulsing throbbing nightclubs […]
Four German artists with an architectural edge at Sprüth Magers
Sprüth Magers in London is one of my favourite galleries with its quirky semi-industrial character (even though it is in Mayfair) from the days when the building was a clothing warehouse/showroom, hence the large windows allowing light to flood in (when they want it) – something galleries generally don’t approve of – and the views […]
Creativity inspiring sculptors in different ways at the Gagosian
It’s a long time since sculptors (usually wearing white smocks and black floppy caps in those old black and white photographs) took up their hammer and chisels to cut out their shapes from a block of white cararra marble. Stone sculptures can now be prepared by computerised cutting while artists adopt a wide variety of […]
Restoration of an outstanding 18th century landscape at Painshill
As you travel around the countryside deep in Surrey, you don’t expect to find a Turkish Tent perched up on a ridge with extensive views across the countryside, but here it is, a short distance from the Grecian Temple of Bacchus. The Turkish Tent, now reconstructed in robust long-lasting materials as one of the many […]
Always thinking ahead at the Brompton Cemetery
Cemeteries have recently suffered in terms of their meaning in the modern world. Once the height of social status, many have fallen into decline and have been seen as a financial burden whereas the most forward looking see them for what they are – a unique library of social history and a much-loved green space […]
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