We had a taster for the main event earlier in the year at Japan House with the work of Manga artist URASAWA Naoki, in some ways a microcosm of the world of Manga in advance of the fascinating exhibition at the British Museum. The British Museum has been collecting examples of Manga art over the past […]
Imagine the Louvre without the Mona Lisa, the British Museum without the Elgin Marbles, the Tate Gallery without the Rothkos. Now imagine the Saatchi Gallery without Richard Wilson’s reflective oil installation “20:50” in the lower floor. It has happened; the installation, which has been with the Saatchi in its different locations since 1987, has gone, […]
A highlight of the London Art Fair, held over the last few days, was the work of the leading modern artist, Ghiyu Uemae. Part of the Gutai group of artists, Ghiyu Uemae is 95 years old and still painting. The Gutai Art Collective was founded by Jiro Yoshihara in 1945 at the end 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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