British artists Vicken Parsons and Paul Noble, born six years apart (1957 and 1963), presented different views of architectural interiors at Christea Roberts Gallery. in ‘Breath’, Vicken Parsons brought us subtle spring yellow sunshine, along with red and blue, incorporated with a subtle array of shadowy shades of grey, white and black, much needed after […]
The Oval Cricket Ground, one of those hallowed places of English cricket, being home to Surrey County Cricket Club, was created at the Oval in South London in 1846, next door to a waterworks previously owned by the Southward & Vauxhall Waterworks Company who had sold the site a year earlier to the Phoenix Gas […]
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 […]
Celebrating 50 years as a sculptor and artist, Bruce McLean is perhaps, these days, also unusual in that he has had a relationship with the Bernard Jacobson gallery since his first one-man exhibition there in 1984. The gallery is celebrating his long career with a programme of exhibitions and events, with McLean’s playful, theatrical and […]
While the Nunan-Cartwright Family and the Sydney Nolan Trust are bringing Australian art to London, British artist Julian Opie is off to Melbourne to show, along with other works, silhouettes of people walking around Melbourne itself. Opie’s work celebrates modern urban life; we enjoy his stylised figures of people walking, running and enjoying the city. […]
Outside is the modern city of London, with the gardens of Berkeley Square not far away, the bulbs beginning to burst through the cold earth as the first indications of spring. On approaching the modern building, the large glass door in front opens silently as you are drawn in to what seems another world – […]
Colourful shapes and unusual materials draw the attention of passers-by as they negotiate the roadworks in Duke Street outside the Queen’s grocer, Fortnum and Mason. Two works from the 2000′s – ‘Pack To Avoid the Threat of Nothingness’ and ‘Plenipotentiary’ stand like sentinels on either side of the stone staircase which leads down to 60 […]
Hundreds and thousands of sea shells join together to become energetic waves of organic forms. British artist Rowan Mersh describes himself not as an artist but as an explorer of material and form. His early works were flowing, organic and sculptural fashion costumes and textiles including an amazing dress he designed for the World Wildlife […]
From a distance, the large powerful images look like skulls, sinister faces, or flowing landscapes, all in black and white, with sweeping brushstrokes and curving forms flowing through the paintings along with refracted shapes and images. Approach closer and you see that the overall picture is composed of many other things including fragmented hands and […]
Initially, when you see Justin Mortimer’s work “Zuma”, you think of Jerome Lagarrigue’s work blasting out of the walls of Lazarides Rathbone. Further examination of Mortimer’s work reveals more sophistication and a wider variety of situations than the explosive subversive riots shown by Lagarrigue. Both are near contemporaries with Mortimer born in 1970 and Lagarrigue born three years […]
"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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