This is the time of year when the vast “creative warehouse” of the Granary Building, which has been the new home of Central Street Martins since 2011, comes into its own as the doors are flung wide opened to the public for the Degree Shows, of which there are two- this weekend is focussed on […]
Bloomberg is now doing what Saatchi achieved with his famous Sensations Exhibition in 1997 at the Royal Academy. It is astonishing to think that this was almost 20 years ago. Bloomberg’s annual New Contemporaries exhibition is on show at the ICA until the end of the month. With over 1500 submissions from the UK’s art […]
While ongoing political clouds swirl around the Labour Party and the trades unions in Falkirk, a ray of artistic sunshine has broken through the gloom in the form of two huge sculptures of horses’ heads, called “The Kelpies” after mythological animals having the strength of 10 horses. These are located in”The Helix“, a community regeneration […]
Tate Britain’s unusual exhibition “Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm” aims to explore the history of physical attacks on art in Britain from the 16th century to the present day for political, religious or other idealistic reasons, such attacks still taking place as recently as last year with the damage to the Rothko paining […]
How would artists of centuries ago have used modern technology? The Fine Art Society is showing recent work by Rob and Nick Carter, working with creative studio MPC, where masterpieces of art are brought into the digital age. Van Gogh’s sunflowers have been recreated as the most delicate and intricate bronze sculpture using 3D printing […]
Marcus Levine creates incredible nail sculptures, both figurative and non-figurative. His next exhibition is at Gallery 27 in Cork Street from 28th October. Tweet
Design Boom reports on Anish Kapoor’s latest sculpture – a 35ft diameter “sky mirror” at the AT+T Stadium at Dallas. I hope that he worked out the sunrays and doesn’t have any of the same problems of the Walkie Talkie in London. Not exactly a new idea, but rarely done on this scale. This weekend, […]
Saatchi is auctioning off some of his classic modern artworks to fund the gallery’s educational programmes. Given the scale of some of these works, Christie’s and Saatchi are holding the Viewing in the Old Sorting Office in New Oxford Street. Although they have all been seen in other locations and other exhibitions, it is worth […]
The Saatchi Gallery is home this weekend to the Strarta Art Fair, which aims to showcase some of the best of modern and contemporary art. The Gallery works well for the Fair, giving a variety of different size of spaces and a nice size compared to the huge fairs such as Frieze. There was a […]
The new extension for the Serpentine Gallery, designed by Zaha Hadid, in Kensington Gardens is better inside than out. The outside is white and, from the front and rear, very simple curved waves; I’m not sure how it will weather in the UK. The inside however is a unique womb-like restaurant interior with a milky […]
"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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