Colour and geometry are the hallmarks of many of London’s exhibitions with Gary Card’s magical mystery world at Phillips and Borna Sammak’s view of urban life at Sadie Coles HQ. Nearby in Brooks Mews at the back of Claridge’s Hotel, continuing a London focus on Latin Art which has included Oscar Murillo at David […]
Brooks Mews at the back of Claridge’s hotel is a nightmare of construction vehicles, blocking each other, turning and compromising access to poor pedestrians like me. I hope the businesses there, including the two art galleries, have sought and obtained business rates relief. Beyond this chaos, there is something strange – a huge golden apple […]
Damien Hirst fills his medical cabinets with pristine medicines and packaging, often arranged with the precision of a scientific laboratory or a well-maintained pharmacy. Gavin Turk in contrast fills his grand cabinet with emptied, torn, crumpled packaging – a complete contrast to that of Hirst -, with the cycle of birth, death and decay followed by immortality. […]
"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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