Initially looking like taking minimalism too far, Indian artist Prabhavathi Meppayil (born 1965) links back to her family’s history as goldsmiths, with copper wire embedded in the gesso in several of the paintings, while others are scored with patterns using old jeweller’s tools. Concrete vessels hold copper, reminiscent of the old crucible vessels, while the […]
When I was a boy in the 1960′s, education was different to what it is today. I learnt Latin, played chess and learnt the Morse Code. Looking back, I have no idea why it was the Morse Code was so important then, but I guess it was an era still fresh from the Second World […]
At PACE Burlington Gardens in London, the Israeli artist Michael Rovner is showing her work “Panorama”. Many artists experiment with video work and it achieves success through innovation, shock or a new slant on life; Rovner succeeds because her work is a 21st century interpretation of painting or drawing, they are complex but simple and […]
Following on from three major exhibitions in North America – at the Guggenheim Museum in New York,the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston -, the PACE Gallery at Burlington Gardens is showing four of James Turrell’s installation works. James Turrell is a leading member of the Light […]
The PACE Gallery at Burlington Gardens has a fascinating exhibition “We have Betrayed the Revolution” by the young Chinese artist Li Songsong who takes images that are well know from history, from newspaper reporting or from advertising and, by the way that he deconstructs them and reassembles them using squares and rectangles of heavily-layered paint, […]
"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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