The challenge of having a gallery on the 3rd and 4th floor of a building in the heart of London is how to carry huge sculptures by an artist such as Antony Caro up and down the narrow stairs. In Amsterdam, the answer would be opening windows and a hoisting beam (though it would have […]
Founded in 1969 and, until recently, housed in Cork Street, Mayfair, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery is now in Duke Street, opposite Fortnum and Mason. The new gallery, designed by Nick Gowing architects, occupies the former underground car park of the historic French Railways House. The conversion uses a simple palette of materials and cleverly leaves some […]
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 […]
An extensive exhibition of drawings, ceramics and sculptures covering 40 years of work by Ken Price bring the vibrant colours and shapes from southern California and Mexico to brighten up the dark wet winter days of London. One of the most important ceramic artists of the 20th century, American artist Ken Price took influences from […]
What do the objects scattered around an artist’s studio reveal about the artist or what does the clutter of a writer’s den reveal about the writer. An artist’s studio is a very personal space. Stacked along the paint-splattered walls are likely to be canvases, some untouched, some started but un-finished and some perhaps ready to […]
In his series of photographic images, “The World After the Humans” Luis Enguita imagines modernist buildings which have been abandoned by humans in perfect state, and now enjoyed by butterflies and penguins. Enguita is one of the artists on display at “Shaped in Mexico” which has been showing new art from Mexico. While START displayed new […]
Opposite Farrow and Ball, the paint manufacturers loved by historic building owners and interior designers, the West Bank Gallery in an old and prominent bank building, provides an unexpected venue for exhibitions of contemporary and fresh street art and for courses in graffiti lessons. The main banking halls has been subdivided with an additional floor […]
Fighting his way through the urban jungle of Soho, the intrepid explorer climbs up and discovers a brightly-lit clearing full of colourful rock totems on grey plinths. Are these a relic from a previous civilisation or are they natural rocks which have been moulded by the wind and by weathering? But wait! – the rocks […]
Stefan Contini established his London gallery at 105 New Bond Street in Mayfair, London, in 2014, following his other galleries centred in Venice, Italy. As is characteristic of many ground floor units in Mayfair, the space is long and narrow. Unlike many commercial galleries, which have simple staircases in steel with concrete or timber treads, […]
The area north of New Oxford Street in London, around Eastcastle Street, is developing as a centre for art galleries, spreading west from Cork Street and north from Soho. In 2012, the Carroll Fletcher Gallery opened to designs by Allsop Gollings Architects. The galleries are ubiquitous white boxes, but what makes this gallery are 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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