This is an exhibition which should have been held in Tate Modern, so well done to Phillips for holding such a major exhibition of the work of the Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez in London. While it is a selling exhibition, it provides an excellent overview of his coloured geometrical work, sometimes 2-dimensional, often 3-dimensional and […]
An exam question for you: – You know about Surrealism, Impressionism, Constructivism, Dada, Pop Art, and many other art movements, but what do you know about Signals or Signalism? Probably not a lot….. Signalism was an international movement which developed in Yugoslavia in the 1950′s linking across all the arts including visual art, poetry, technology, […]
How do you camouflage a warship? The traditional technique of blending natural colours and textures is difficult given the number of different backgrounds warships will be seen against. Norman Wilkinson, a marine painter, invented a different solution in the first world war – effectively doing the opposite and making the camouflage stand out in a […]
It has been slow progress, but modern and contemporary Latin American art has started to make an impact in London. There have been solo shows by well-known artists such as the Mexican Gabriel Orozco at the Serpentine Gallery in 2004, Tate Modern in 2011 and also in the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh in 2013. In […]
"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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