What is really annoying is the amount of things that can’t be recycled, especially when it comes to plastics, and what do you do with your collection of rubber ducks when the children grow up and no longer need them. The answer? Give them to artists or to schools for art projects – paint on […]
Geometric 3D waves from screws (Jack Tanner), old oil and other tin cans from another era (Matt Brown), Lego warriors in Darth Vader formation (Valerie Carmet), aluminium silhouettes (Toyin Loye), illuminated Greek gods (Andrew Ryder), the artist talking to his alter ego (Park, Sung Sik), swirling metal orbs and rings (Mark Beattie) and sassy figures […]
You are an artist and your studio burns down; what do you do?. If you are the Russell West, best known for his work with coloured paint running down urban scenes, into paintpots and even down old boots, you take life in its stride, salvage the old materials from the metal roof and turn it […]
The best exhibition yet by the young British artist Jack Tanner has opened at the Woolff Gallery at Fitzrovia, demonstrating Jack’s mathematical prowess using screws and paint with intricate precision to create three dimension graphic, geometric and optical works. The window of the gallery is covered with Jack’s trademark screw heads and, inside, his early […]
Folded aeroplanes, screws, nails, spoons, polyamide mesh, ceramic pots, old paintbrushes, old records and cassettes, basket balls and darts, plus the newest technologies of LED lighting and thin display screens: Art continues to break out of the traditional boundaries of paint, canvas and bronze sculpture. Galleries and artists from all around the world have been […]
Two astronauts, Daphne and Apollo, like their Greek namesakes, are flying on a quest, to explore new worlds where no-one has gone before, far beyond the current limits of knowledge and experience where something new and unexpected may be found. Daphne and Apollo, created by the Canadian artist Sarah Fortais, are made of materials found on […]
"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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