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 […]
Founded in 1969 and, until recently, housed in Cork Street, Mayfair, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery is now in Duke Street, opposite Fortnum and Mason. The new gallery, designed by Nick Gowing architects, occupies the former underground car park of the historic French Railways House. The conversion uses a simple palette of materials and cleverly leaves some […]
Surrounded by historic tapestries, Ross Lovegrove’s immense serpent ripples through the gallery, its design inspired by the fabrics of the ladies in the medieval tapestries around it. A short walk away is the colourful stage design by Es Devlin for George Bizet’s opera Carmen to be performed on a stage in the lake at the […]
"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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