Look at the websites of galleries and art exhibitions – they are all taken with bright daylight, often in brilliant sunshine, even in cities like London. Yet, in winter in London, with the time that darkness falls and the grey weather during the day, many people visit galleries in grey light or in darkness when […]
Arundel Great Court was an immense Brutalist mixed use complex of offices and hotel designed by Sir Frederick Gibberd & Partners and built from 1971-6 running from the Embankment all the way up to the Strand. At its heart was a courtyard, originally proposed to be opened to the public, but was closed off long […]
French artist Daniel Buran (born 1938) has filled the ground floor of the Lisson Gallery in Lisson Street in London with his installation “PILE UP: High Reliefs. Situated Works”. Brightly coloured, different arrangements of bold, three-dimensional shapes, with his trademark stripes, are set on vertical mirrors that change in perspective as the viewer walks around […]
Is there something in the character of female artists that they are more able to examine their feelings, experience and concerns and represent them in their art than male artists. If this is true, then they bring something new and refreshing, which is being increasingly explored by galleries and curators, following on from the success of […]
One of the sad things about announcements on Brexit policies and strategies is that the Conservative Government, once business-supportive, has shown that is hasn’t a clue about business and enterprise in the modern global world and, hence voters have responded in the only way they could. Has anyone in the leadership of the Conservative Party (Not to […]
Sixty innocent childhood figures have become sinister and perverted, smoking cigarettes, fighting and tormenting each other and cavorting together, with a loud pervasive soundtrack beating out around them. What should be a moment of childhood innocence has become a battlefield and a nightmare, but who are we to judge as the figures have given into their selfish […]
Imagine you are standing on the surface of Mars, the Red Planet, with the contrast of your precision-made reflective metal space capsule against the rough rugged barren landscape ahead of you, perhaps appearing like a volcanic form in which twisting swirling flames and smoke might fly out, throwing glowing, bright red rocks far up into the sky. This contrast […]
It’s the sort of area where streetart or graffiti might be expected, but this is not Brick Lane and, while the area is a little run down, there is little streetart apart from underneath the flyover leading to the M40. But wait, on a white-painted wall, the bold letters “Build Up On”, have been perfectly […]
Marcus Harvey and Bouchra Khalili explore cultural and national identity through different media – Marcus in sculptures, ceramics and paintings; Bouchra with film and video installation, photography and prints BREXIT raises the question about Britain’s future role in the modern world. What is Britishness and what will it mean in the future as Britain pulls away […]
The Lisson Gallery is located in the “edgy” multi-cultural area to the north of the A40 flyover at Edgeware Road in two purpose-designed complexes in Bell Street which are cultural anchors for the area around them as it goes through regeneration. Indeed a former pub, laundry and telephone box immediately adjacent to the modern gallery […]
"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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