In 2017, after 20 years, the Wilkinson Gallery in Vyner Street near Bethnal Green closed as the owners went their separate ways. Fortunately, the gallery space was taken over by Steve Shave’s Modern Art, as a counterpoint to his more industrial space opposite St Luke’s Church in Old Street. The simple modern two story building, […]
Continuing my East End of London trail of Condo art spaces, I arrived in the lively multi-cultural environment of Mile End Road and down an alley to a courtyard of old buildings (on the site of Captain Cook’s former home) now occupied by a variety of businesses, including the gallery Carlos/Ishikawa hosting Koppe Astner from […]
Continuing the exploration across London for Condo 2020 takes the explorer from Soho across Oxford Street to Pilar Corrias which is hosting the Matthew Brown Gallery from Los Angeles showing work by American artist Sedrick Chisom as he explores the future alongside Greek artist Sofia Mitsola’s bold simple works in ‘Darladildada’, with a delightful discovery […]
"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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