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 the week in London when the three main auction houses have sales of a wide range of 20th century and contemporary art. While it is impossible to be comprehensive – I did not spot any work by Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam for example – the three auction houses do provide an outstanding exhibition between […]
Goodbye the single portrait; Hello to the double, with figures intertwined sometimes in sensual ways. Francis Bacon is here at the Gagosian with their third exhibition of his work, this time focused on double figures, sometimes on a couch, sometimes with a monkey, sometimes on the grass, sometimes working in a field, occasionally lying together […]
With the art crowd invading London this week, the auction houses have stepped up to the mark with auctions of modern and contemporary art. While Christie’s has stellar works by David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Keith Haring, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Schutte and others, with a focus on Italian art alongside British, it also has more affordable […]
In May 1871 Paris was in shock. A year earlier, France made the mistake of declaring war on Prussia. In six weeks, each side had lost 100,000 men and Napoleon III was deposed, after which Paris suffered three months of siege and the Paris Commune had been born, only to be crushed by the French […]
It’s a dull dark January night in Mayfair, but the lights shine brightly in Phillips in Berkeley Square with three floors of limited edition works by a huge variety of modern and contemporary artists from North America, Japan, Britain and Europe including Jan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys, Roy […]
The White Cube gallery in Bermondsey has created controversy with the exhibition of Gilbert and George’s “The Banners” which are exactly, as titled, banners and have to be taken as such, relating back to an event in the Serpentine Gallery in 2014 where the artists held up banners with controversial sayings in front of the […]
"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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