I first saw Leo Villareal’s mesmerising works in May 2017 in the semi-industrial spaces of the PACE Gallery near the High Line in New York, where his work responded to the different volumes of the gallery spaces. PACE in London is more challenging given it is less quirky, but Leo Villareal blows the space apart […]
The White Cube aesthetic of gallery design, with white walls, white lighting and highly polished concrete floor comes alive when the art is reflected in the floor, creating a further dimension to the experience for the viewer, like watching lights playing in a dark pond of water or floodlit buildings along the River Thames, the […]
In the darkness of Edinburgh’s New Town a Field of Light has appeared like an illuminated poppy field in Flanders or the planted landscape around the former Olympic Park in Stratford. British artist Bruce Munro has created an artwork of 9,000 frosted spheres rising from the ground on slender stems which light up as […]
"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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