Continuing the exploration across London for Condo 2020 takes the explorer from Soho across Oxford Street to Pilar Corrias which is hosting the Matthew Brown Gallery from Los Angeles showing work by American artist Sedrick Chisom as he explores the future alongside Greek artist Sofia Mitsola’s bold simple works in ‘Darladildada’, with a delightful discovery […]
Well done to Pi Artworks for a double show of the German-Egyptian artist Susan Hefuna, with her solo exhibition at the gallery in Eastcastle Street and inclusion in the Pi Artworks stand at the recent and new Draw Art Fair. Inevitably what was on show at the Draw Art Fair was limited and acted as […]
Mustafa Hulusi is representative of the rich international cultural mixture of Britain. Born in London, his parents were Turkish-Cypriots and his work crosses the different boundaries. He had the classic London art education, studying first at Goldsmith’s College, where many of the UK’s finest artists honed their talents, before moving to the Royal College of […]
You can see the passers-by in the street outside looking in through the street windows. Why is there is rough brick arch here? Is it an archaeological exhibit? The bridge ‘Troubled Waters’ is structurally quite simple. Held together by gravity, its meaning is quite complex. On the one hand, it represents the past – the […]
Until a few years ago, Chelsea had an annual festival with events across the area. It now seems to have split into a number of different festivals, but over the past two weeks there definitely has been a feeling of festivity, no doubt helped by the weather, with art, flowers and gardening shows bringing adventurous […]
The German artist Paul Schwer (b.1951) has his first solo show in London in the gallery at Pi Artworks, where even the floor is painted white to create a full three dimensional canvas for art installations. Schwer has created installations in a number of German cities, not without controversy. His artwork “Home” which hung over […]
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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