When the South London Fine Art Gallery (as the South London Gallery was then called) opened in 1891, the artist Walter Crane designed a patterned inlaid wooden floor for the main hall, which still exists, concealed underneath the modern floor we see today, and the original design for which is displayed across the road in […]
A century ago, Giorgio de Chirico painted “The Revolt of the Sage” – a ‘metaphysical’ work in which a collection of apparently-unrelated objects were combined together in inconsistent and surreal perspectives to create a new world, a world in which “time did not exist”. At Blain|Southern in London, Simon Moretti and Craig Burnett have curated […]
"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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