The large black sleek Mercedes stops and, as the chauffeur opens the car door and then waits, the elegantly dressed lady walks purposely across the pavement towards the shop, as the door opens invisibly in front of her. This is Mayfair with New Bond Street at its heart as the exclusive and expensive shopping street […]
While the main entrance of the Gagosian Gallery near King’s Cross has the builders in, Michael Craig-Martin (born 1941 in Ireland) has taken the stylised simplified coloured graphic lines of everyday objects, for which he is famous, and turned them into 3-dimensional sculptures in the gallery spaces, entered through another door, as he continues to […]
It had to happen. In this modern 21st century digital age, if you are asked to do a self-portrait what do you do? A painting, a selfie, a drawing, or – yes – a social media feed. When do die, what will be left of you? Unless you have commissioned a formal portrait, it may […]
One of the great joys of the arts scene in London, with its many private and commercial galleries, is finding happy coincidences as you explore different exhibitions close to each other. London doesn’t have the breath-taking concentration of galleries that you find in Chelsea in New York, connected like a spine by the High Line, […]
As you enter through the doors of the former industrial building, It feels like one of those very expensive garages where your car will be serviced by men wearing white gloves. But there are only two vehicles here, both beautifully restored. One, a 1974 Porsche 914, is held in mid-air perfectly balanced by a 390lb […]
At dusk on a winter’s night, the blank white windows contrast eerily with the dark brickwork of this former industrial building; inside it is reversed – the windows project the dark colour of the night sky against the white walls of the gallery spaces. It is interesting to see how different these spaces look at […]
By happy coincidence, running in parallel with exhibition of 20th century German art at the Ben Brown gallery in London, is an exhibition of work by the German artist Ernst Wilhelm May (1902-1968), who for some reason is not well-known in the UK, showing how his work changed and transformed over his 40-year career from […]
Two galleries located within minutes of each of other in Mayfair are collaborating on exhibitions by the same artist, American pop-artist Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004). Not only that, but both have opened up new spaces in their galleries, not seen before. Well done, Tom Wesselmann – look what you have achieved. Almine Rech Gallery has moved […]
In 2016, the German photographer Peter Lindbergh was invited to photograph the bronze and plaster sculptures in the world’s largest collection of work by Alberto Giacometti, many of which are currently on loan to Tate Modern for their current retrospective of Giacometti’s work. Running in parallel with the Tate Modern exhibition, the pure white gallery […]
On February 7th 1992, representatives of twelve countries, including the United Kingdom, assembled in Maastricht to sign the treaty that established the European Union. With the solemnity of the occasion, and the celebrations afterwards, did anyone notice the bold flower arrangements in the room, created from flowers from all around the world including, appropriately, 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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