One of the joys of visiting the Venice Biennale is the number of exhibitions of contemporary art on show in historic buildings that you might not otherwise see, often located down canals you would not normally visit. It is as much an architectural discovery as an exploration of new art. The Gallery Edel Assanti has given […]
Flooded with daylight underneath the rooflight at the back of the gallery hang window frames, like exhibits in a museum of architecture, but here they are made of aluminium frames (rather than timber/bamboo) overlaid with financial newspapers, with the patterns and designs representing window frames from traditional houses which have demolished in the name of […]
I’m a 3 Dimensional person, I guess that goes with being an architect. Or is it that I just enjoy the juxtaposition of three dimensional works with two and the quirky relationships that they can have. Rarely do the hanging structures of an artist frame his own works, so the current exhibition of Gordon Cheung’s […]
Two female artists – two dinner tables, one a glittering crystalline table of dreams by the Pakistani artist Sara Shakeel, of creativity and of family dinners, the other smaller table full of graphics, part of a story about travelling between Russia and Europe and the USA in the west. Russian artist Victoria Lomasko’s graphic black […]
Milk and oil flowing together, black and white, like the footballs that will, in only four years’ time, be kicked, sliced and spun by national teams from across the world in the Quatar 2022 FIFA World Cup. Oil, often referred to as black gold, has become a blessing and a curse. It is everywhere – […]
Sweltering in the apparently never-ending heatwave of July in London, you spotted beach huts, loungers and towels around a pool. What bliss, to be able to lie and relax and chill out with friends. All that’s missing was the water as Palm Springs came to London with American artist Oren Pinhassi’s plaster palm trees, pool-side […]
What defines national identity? Is it geography and boundaries? Is it national dress, music, culture or art? Is it something genetic in the people’s DNA which might show in facial features, hair colour, body shape or other characteristics? Japanese artist Yoshinori Niwa, who now lives in Vienna, believes that language may have much to do […]
To the outsider, football is a strange sport. While Hank Willis Thomas explored the tribal relationship between football and politics and religion, in quite a benign way, Marcin Dudek’s work is more sinister, as he explores similar relationships, but linked to his own very personal experiences as a teenage member of the Cracovia Football Fan […]
How do our unconscious and conscious memories impact on what we see, or what we think we see, even if our vision or memory is imperfect? How do we respect the cultures and traditions of the past while enabling civilisation to move forward to give us the future of tomorrow? Though distorted images with paint dragged down […]
"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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