It seems very strange to reflect that, four weeks ago, we were in a different world of record-breaking rainfall, and, walking along the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, you had to weave round the flooded pathways along the riverbank to make your way up to the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, past Antony Gormley’s ”Six […]
Overlooking Berkeley Square, Yue Min’s Contemporary Terracotta Warriors carry out their exercises, while Duane Hanson’s young Surfer prepares to go out into the cold February weather in London. One of the great joys of Phillips modern building is the view that it facilitates into the adjacent streets, while the other auction houses have exhibition galleries […]
It’s the week in London when the three main auction houses have sales of a wide range of 20th century and contemporary art. While it is impossible to be comprehensive – I did not spot any work by Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam for example – the three auction houses do provide an outstanding exhibition between […]
Ravensbourne University made a bold but forward-thinking decision to move to the then barren, but developing, landscape of Greenwich Peninsula in 2010 with its unique building designed by Foreign Office Architects which now, a decade later, looks very much part of the urban landscape of this new quarter for London. Nearby, Antony Gormley’s ‘Quantum Cloud’ […]
There is a saying that when God opens closes one door, he opens another. In London this autumn when Antony Gormley closes one exhibition (at the Royal Academy), he opens another (at the nearby White Cube Gallery). The White Cube exhibition is a natural conclusion for visitors to the Royal Academy for the three short […]
Standing under the vast cloud, your initial feeling is of the weight of the world above you. But wait, there is a space in the centre of the cloud, a place of refuge, a place for dreaming. Like many of Antony Gormley’s works, you need to look closely at the detail, for what appears a […]
Be careful where you leave your car in case artists find it and take it over, with a 1953 VW beetle turned into a giant Beetle Sphere by Ichman Noor (now worth far more than the original car) or, in the case of an unregistered Fiat 500, having characteristic images applied over it by Tracy […]
With the art crowd invading London this week, the auction houses have stepped up to the mark with auctions of modern and contemporary art. While Christie’s has stellar works by David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Keith Haring, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Schutte and others, with a focus on Italian art alongside British, it also has more affordable […]
Earlier in the week, I had been on a visit to the London Transport Workshop Museum at Acton Town where the original paintings for many of London Transport’s posters are stored in a controlled environment on moveable metal mesh screens, artistic memories of an era which when poster design was at its zenith. The […]
At the ‘New Now’ preview of the auction next week at Phillips, it is fun to see how many works follow the theme of the King’s College London exhibition ‘The Classical Now’, taking inspiration from classical art and the search for beauty and perfection. Quite a few, it seems. Some are obvious such as Viktor […]
"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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