It’s one of the amazing things about London, but no matter how well you think you know it, you find something new, often by accident. Having worked at London Bridge for many years, a short walk or tube journey from London South Bank University, I only recently discovered the existence of the Borough Road Gallery, […]
“I liked it because it made me more creative. It was so fun.” (pupil at Kenmont Primary School, London) What do primary school children think of art galleries full of dark old paintings. Is their imagination set alight? Are they inspired to be creative? Children in various different primary schools have taken Joseph Wright of […]
Goodbye white walls. I wonder what the architects Dixon Jones think of Bridget Riley’s addition to their pristine white walls in for the Annenberg Courtyard of the National Gallery in London as part of the East Wing masterplan, created over a decade ago by transforming an unloved external courtyard. Riley’s mural, Messengers, shows that art […]
Two classical porticos, almost facing each other in Trafalgar Square in London, behind which are three exhibitions of Scottish art, running at the same time as the annual celebration of the birth of the Scottish poet Robert Burns. In the National Gallery, Edwin Landseer’s majestic Monarch of the Glen has travelled down from the National […]
It is the last week of the much-acclaimed exhibition ‘Inventing Impressionism’ at the National Gallery in London which is both a stunning exhibition of French Impressionist art and also a fascinating history of the courage and perseverance of the Paris art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel who discovered, supported and promoted emerging and risky new young artists […]
As a young inexperienced graduate architect, one of my first projects was to create an artist’s studio near the east entrance of the National Gallery in London. Now demolished, the first artist in residence was Maggi Hambling in 1980. At that time her focus seemed to be on portraits with a focus on warders during […]
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