For the Italian artist Tullio Crali, the art movement Futurism was not just about art, but about a new dynamic and exciting way of life. Unfortunately during the 2nd World War it became too interlinked with Mussolini and, with the death of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in 1944, the movement effectively came to an end, but […]
An early morning visit organised as part of London Art Fair, saw art enthusiasts brave the cold January weather to reach Piano Nobile’s gallery spaces in Holland Park for a welcome warm drink or glass of champagne and to explore the work of Scottish painter Craigie Aitchison (1926-2009) who grew up in Edinburgh then moved […]
It was a cold misty January morning and a few brave souls ventured to a corner that appears to be one of Stratford’s best-kept secrets – Lothar Götz’s ‘Porte de Couleur’ at Lend Lease’s new development Glasshouse Gardens in the International Quarter, which even the concierge in Glasshouse Gardens had to look up in the internet to find […]
It’s January, with a new year and a new decade and Islington is awash with curators, artists and collectors flocking towards the Business Design Centre for this year’s London Art Fair. Will the new certainty on Brexit damp down collectors or will it give them new encouragement for a brighter and better and future – […]
The 30th annual London art fair with a varied mix of modern art including Picasso, Miro and Brigit Riley plus new art from galleries around the world including Hassan Hajjaj fresh from his success at Somerset House. To celebrate, the Fair includes an exhibition ‘Art of the Nation’, a selection of modern British art chosen […]
It’s January and the start of the 2017 art cycle with the London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre in Islington. Now in its 29th year, the Fair presents galleries showing work from modern artists such as Eduardo Paolozzi (“Richard Rogers as Newton”) and Alexander Calder (“The Yellow Shock Absorber”) plus artists such as Picasso and Joan […]
Towers of computer cables and accessories become works of art, reinforcing the potential to re-use the electrical, computer and mobile phone connections that modern society discards, in part designed by computer companies to have a limited life and with a cable for one device not connecting into another, often even from the same company. Thus […]
In London, the first art fair of the new year is the London Art Fair held earlier this month. A wide range of galleries, mainly British and European, displayed an extensive range of works: photography, prints, painting, oil and sculpture. It had a mixture of the well-known contemporary and modern artists, such as Peter Blake, […]
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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