Will film-making ever be the same again when the industry regroups when the coronavirus crisis is over? Will the glitz and glamour of Hollywood which, at the current time seems so distant, self-serving and out of place, be acceptable as the world rebuilds itself. Will the film industry decide that the current model is unsustainable […]
As computers, digitalisation and AI marches through society, what will their effect be on art. Will the artists be made redundant or will artists grasp the new technology as tools that replace paint and brushes and plaster and balsa? Surprisingly, artists and computer geeks have been using computers for over 50 years to create prints, […]
American artist Sarah Sze, though in a different way to Carlos Garaicoa, whose exhibition has been next door at Parasol Unit, also considers the links between decay in the physical world to change in society in her exhibition ‘Paints a Picture’. While outside in the garden all is calm, with a hammock in which to […]
The central space with its white walls and high windows could be in New York; the adjacent rooms however have views out to the green grass and winter trees of Kensington Gardens, even though canvases are stacked against wall, as they are in Wade Guyton’s New York studio. On the walls are images which from […]
How do artists reflect on modern politics, commerce and technology, at a time when Britain is planning to leave the EU, immigration remains a major world issue and the 2016 US presidential election, which may have been influenced by Russia’s infiltration of email accounts, resulted in President who uses twitter relentlessly? The third of four […]
Folded aeroplanes, screws, nails, spoons, polyamide mesh, ceramic pots, old paintbrushes, old records and cassettes, basket balls and darts, plus the newest technologies of LED lighting and thin display screens: Art continues to break out of the traditional boundaries of paint, canvas and bronze sculpture. Galleries and artists from all around the world have been […]
Coloured lines move and pulsate across the computer screens, drawn by invisible hands. Manfred Mohr’s early career was as a jazz musician and an “action painter”, both of which allow free expression and breaking of established rules, though he became more interested in logical sequences and algorithms in his art and it therefore seemed a natural progression […]
In 1968, as the Russian tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia and his home city of Prague, Jan Koblasova was away in Italy and subsequently gained asylum in Germany, while his work left at home was confiscated by the authorities. One of Czechoslovakia’s leading artists, and recognised across Europe (but little-known in the UK), the diverse range […]
"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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