Three galleries around Vauxhall, all in old brick buildings, refurbished from minimal to full-blown international gallery standard, with a variety of neighbours – the Oval Cricket Ground, the Vauxhall gasworks and massive redevelopments, and all, by coincidence currently showing work by female artists, all with different themes. Use of colour is the theme of ‘True […]
What happens to art and to artists as time marches on? Artists create, they breathe their personality into their work, they take inspiration from other artists while they develop their own style… but then what….? At the end, does their work end up in skips and in black bins bags, thrown away by the artists themselves […]
In the nineteenth century, when the new railway tracks were being driven into the centre of London, this new utopian transport system destroyed many community facilities in its way. Homes, schools, hospitals all had to disappear or be relocated for the greater good. St Thomas’ Hospital was rebuilt in Lambeth to create the new station at […]
Not quite as much of an expedition as finding the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art in Prague, but it is still an adventure to reach Damien Hirst’s new Newport Street Gallery in Vauxhall, London, though a relatively short walk from several underground stations through the railway arches which split the area in two and which […]
"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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