In the exceptional summer of 2018 in London, the shadows of the sun have been casting lines and shadows into art galleries such as Camden Arts. Perhaps the gallery staff occasionally have to rush to close the blinds if the sunlight threatens to move onto the photographs of Peter Fraser, but the shadows they create […]
Behind the traditional red brick façade of the building in Hampstead, two entirely different environments had been created; both crossing the boundaries between art and design, one colourful, geometric, abstract and architectural, linking back to the Memphis collective of which Nathalie Du Pasquier was a member; the other thoughtful and philisophical by Christopher Nyampeta, creating […]
British artist Hannah Collins (b. 1956) shows her virtuosity with four diverse installations at the Camden Art Centre exploring different aspects of social history, environment and cultures. Her huge unframed black and white prints show decaying and abandoned environments which people have left behind, perhaps briefly; perhaps forever, including a cemetery which nature is gradually […]
"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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