It was a bitterly cold, damp and dark January night in London and the normally-quiet Rathbone Place, north of Oxford Street, had, unusually, a long queue of people, stretching along the street, waited in anticipation for the opening of “The Road; Soho” from UNKLE, or rather James Lavelle, at Lazardies Rathbone. Who, for the unitiated, is UNKLE and who […]
The noise and splash of water from diving into a Californian swimming pool was caught at a moment in time by David Hockney in “A Bigger Splash” painted in 1967 and now in the Tate Gallery, London. In contrast, the French artist Zevs has taken the same Californian swimming pool but the clean white splash is replaced […]
In this modern world of digital cameras, selfies on mobile phones and pictures on facebook, twitter and the like, how will artists create the modern portrait? Brett Armory’s exhibition “Internal Dialogue” at Lazarides Rathbone explores everyday places and everyday people and how to make sense of the huge number of snapshots of information which bombard […]
A decade ago, Steve Lazarides established a gallery in the lively environment of Soho, rather than traditional Mayfair, following on with a further gallery in an old Georgian gin palace and shop in Rathbone Place, north of New Oxford Street. Such has been his influence that street art is now collected by serious collectors, with […]
Imagine you have climbed up a damp hillside and entered a dark underground chamber in a temple high in the Andes with black birds swirling overhead. Ahead of you, with dazzling brilliance, hanging on the walls and in the centre of the room are textiles which appear to be woven with gold, the most precious […]
Fire extinguishers, tyres, wheels and basketball balls, combined with graphics of large-leafed plants, fruit and text – these are the elements of Lucas Prices’s sculptures, drawings and paintings in his solo exhibition “Dumb Poetry” at Lazarides Rathbone in London. Lucas Price started out as a street artist called Cyclops in the East End of London, where […]
At Lazarides Rathbone, the “cityscape artist” Frank Laws presents a series of paintings, some of which are derived from housing estates in the changing area of Hackney, commenting on the contrasts between the grittiness of such housing and the hope and warmth of the people who occupy it, and the need and ability to create […]
Antony Micallef, who won second prize in the BP/Amoco Portrait of the Year award in 2000, is recognised for the way his work comments on contemporary aspects of culture and how we experience it, often illustrating a darker side to our consumer society. His new exhibition at the Lazarides Rathbone Gallery in London explores his […]
It is busy summer for Street Art in London. In July, Steve Lazarides curated the stunning exhibition “BANKSY- The Unauthorised Retrospective” in Sotheby’s S2 Gallery in Mayfair, London. Steve Lazarides, collector and gallery owner, is one of the first figures to recognise the importance of street art in modern culture and bring it from 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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