Arts organisations are leading the way in adapting to the current lockdown, with museum and theatre doors firmly locked, fine exhibitions of art in darkness and theatre stages empty. While not quite the same as seeing the real thing, we can watch ballets from the Royal Opera House, learn art from Grayson Perry in his […]
Two artists who use architecture as their inspiration show their work together for the first time at the Ashmolean Museum in the city of dreaming spires. One creates perfection; the other depicts the chaos of life. Growing up in Oxford and now living in London, silversmith Vicki Ambery-Smith uses the sculptural forms of architecture and engineering in […]
Was 1964 one of those years in which the world turned on its axis and changed for ever? Did the people living at the time (like me) realise the changes that were happening they hung around the juke boxes in cafes or sat up in their bedroom with friends playing the latest pop music? In […]
There is a riot of colour at the heart of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford as the third exhibition arranged between the Hall Art Foundation and the Ashmolean Museum brings the art of Ed Paschke to the UK in the exhibition Ed Paschke: Visionary from Chicago, 1968 – 2004. The Hall Foundation, founded in 2007, […]
The modern vision of pure white classical sculpture and architecture is conditioned by classical statues galleries in museums, palaces and historic homes and by collections of plaster casts, for example in the Victoria and Albert Museum where the building is richly-coloured but the casts – whether classical, gothic or renaissance – are generally uncoloured. In […]
Modern Art Oxford provides a foil to the more traditional and historic collections in this university city. It shows modern and contemporary art, often of international quality, in the former square room and stores of Hanley’s City Brewery which was originally built in 1892 and now provides a number of different semi-industrial spaces that enables […]
"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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