Overlooking Berkeley Square, Yue Min’s Contemporary Terracotta Warriors carry out their exercises, while Duane Hanson’s young Surfer prepares to go out into the cold February weather in London. One of the great joys of Phillips modern building is the view that it facilitates into the adjacent streets, while the other auction houses have exhibition galleries […]
Breathing new life into historic collections is a theme that brings new audiences into historic buildings and museums. Versailles does it on a larger scale than most, as sculptors such as Anish Kapoor in 2015 take over and transform the gardens. But, here in London, Marc Quinn has done the impossible – added more to […]
At the Cini Foundation in Venice in 2013, Marc Quinn exhibited five huge sea shells from his series “The Archaeology of Art” which, set against water, looked as if they had been washed ashore. At the White Cube Gallery in Bermondsey, London, the highly polished floors of the gallery take on the reflective character of […]
A hidden treasure near Edinburgh is Jupiter Artland, “Contemporary Art Orbiting Edinburgh”. This private collection of site-specific sculptures is the private collection of Nicky and Robert Wilson. Five years old, it includes works by Anish Kapoor, Marc Quinn and others and the addition for 2013 of works by Sam Durant and Sara Barker, all set […]
"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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