If you were selecting something of your own that signified the modern world, what would you chose and how would you commemorate it? Would you select hardrives, an ethernet cable, a pair of trainers, a broom or a deconstructed VHS player and VHS showreel? These were the choices of staff and students at Oxford Brookes […]
The title of Saatchi’s new exhibition “Champagne Life” might conjure up images of bohemian dancing with champagne on the beach, but it is taken from one of Julia Wachel’s pictures which contrasts the lonely life of artists working creatively for all the hours of the day that they can in their cold Spartan studios with […]
Never has copper wire been used so imaginatively. The Wellcome Collection’s new exhibition displays over 100 items by the French-British sculptor and film-maker Alice Anderson, all entirely mummified and transformed in copper. The gallery staircase, a bottle of coke, windows frames, computer parts, ropes and a plethora of other objects, wrapped in copper wire, glisten […]
"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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