It seems very strange to reflect that, four weeks ago, we were in a different world of record-breaking rainfall, and, walking along the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, you had to weave round the flooded pathways along the riverbank to make your way up to the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, past Antony Gormley’s ”Six […]
It’s January, with a new year and a new decade and Islington is awash with curators, artists and collectors flocking towards the Business Design Centre for this year’s London Art Fair. Will the new certainty on Brexit damp down collectors or will it give them new encouragement for a brighter and better and future – […]
I am sitting in Florida, after Art Miami, watching the results of the election in the UK for which I submitted my postal vote two weeks ago. It looks like a Conservative victory in England but with a new headache in Scotland as the political map swing strongly towards Scottish Independence. A nation which has […]
It’s a week of modern British art in London with Bonham’s, Sotheby’s and Christie’s all having sales of British art, along with Irish art at Bonham’s and Christie’s. Works for sale include many well-known artists from over the last century, some still active, including L.S. Lowry, Eduardo Paolozzi,, David Hockney, Lynn Chadwick, Elizabeth Frink, Terry […]
Scattered on the grassy lawns adjacent to the formal garden and fountains of Regent’s Park, with the backcloth of John Nash’s elegant regency terraces, a successful initiative of Frieze this summer was the sculpture park where a wide range of strange and wonderful sculpture was on display through the summer by artists including Eduardo Paolozzi, […]
It’s January and the start of the 2017 art cycle with the London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre in Islington. Now in its 29th year, the Fair presents galleries showing work from modern artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi (“Richard Rogers as Newton”) and Alexander Calder (“The Yellow Shock Absorber”) plus artists such as Picasso and Joan […]
Half a century ago, architects and artists such as Archigram and Eduardo Paolozzi were exploring our future in an age of optimism about how technology and science would enable us to achieve things that had previously not been possible. In 1959, the Soviet Union’s “Luna” made the first landing from earth on the moon while, […]
Looking for a good home – 21 fibreglass panels by the artist Paul Mount which formerly clad a supermarket in Falmouth introduce Historic England’s exhibition “Out There: Our Post War Public Art” which raises awareness of the scale and variety of public art in England since the end of the Second World War. While art has […]
At long last, the reconfigured Tottenham Court underground station designed by Hawkins Brown has its new southern entrance and the new public square around Centre Point will open later this year. The new entrance has colourful geometric artworks on the new entrances by Daniel Buren that has gives a subtle reference to Eduardo Paolozzi’s 1984 […]
"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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