Silvia Weidenbach’s exhibition at the V&A artistically links her very contemporary work using 3D technology with the historic Gilbert Collection and also reinforces the nonsense of Brexit. Silvia is a German artist, who teaches in London and Glasgow and in 2017 was appointed the Gilbert Collection Resident Artist, the Gilbert Collection being a stunning collection […]
As computers, digitalisation and AI marches through society, what will their effect be on art. Will the artists be made redundant or will artists grasp the new technology as tools that replace paint and brushes and plaster and balsa? Surprisingly, artists and computer geeks have been using computers for over 50 years to create prints, […]
80 years ago, just before the start of the Second World War, a new comic appeared in Scotland – The Beano, published by DC Thomson, who to their credit still retain offices in Fleet Street, one of the last publishers to do so as the big firms have all moved out. The Beano is the […]
It’s probably an architect thing, but I’ve always loved the three dimension optical illusions of Patrick Hughes, more so when I used to stay the Radisson Hotel in Argyle Street in Glasgow which had several of his works hanging on the walls across the bars and public areas. His latest works are on show at […]
One of the highlights of Blain Southern’s 2017 exhibition challenging viewers to think the unthinkable into the future was Paloma Varga Weisz‘s “Still Life” which left the viewer to use his or her imagination for the future of biomedical science. The artist is now back in London at Sadie Coles in Davies Street, with an […]
A neo-classical Mayfair building on the outside, near the Gentleman’s Clubs of St James’s, but inside is quite an irreverent exhibition of Richard Prince’s amusing graphic works which will bring a smile to your face – perhaps this is what art is about? American artist Richard Prince was born in Panama in 1949 and started […]
We all love mirrors – they reflect our personalities as we peer and preen in front of them. And then, mirrors can tell a different story – think of the Halls of Mirrors in funfairs that cause such humour as they twist and distort their viewers. And.o f course, there is the story of Snow […]
If you thought that the artist Ewan Henderson might have some Scottish links, you would be right. Although he was born in Staffordshire, both his parents were Scottish and he also spent some time at the Edinburgh College of Art, although much of his career was was spent as a lecturer and tutor at the […]
The 1920′s was an era of prosperity and fun after the austerity of the First World War. The cinemas were full of films by stars such as Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo and transatlantic liners carried the rich and famous across the Atlantic between Southampton and New York. No-one […]
From a distance, this year’s Serpentine Pavilion by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo looks a little like a series of dark wickerwork walls, rather than a pavilion. Inside is different, with reflections from the shallow pool of water and from the polished stainless steel ceiling that both protects from the weather and also visually doubles the […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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