Now we know why there was only a relatively small selection of his Pop works on show at the Andy Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern – this week there were extensive selections on show of Warhol’s Pop prints at Sotheby’s and Christie’s where both had sales of Prints and Multiples, which I guess may be […]
Pop Art is still alive and well. Brigit Riley created her famous painting ‘Pause’ on show in the current exhibition at the Gazelli Art House in 1964. Now in her late 80′s, she has just completed her staircase mural ‘Messengers’ at the National Gallery in London. Brian Clarke produced his ‘Three Hand Grenades’ in 1969; […]
It’s interesting, if you google Damiano Spelta you find two people, one a champion at power-boat racing, the other an artist. Both appear to be larger than life…. Are they the same person? The artist Damiano blows up your Rolex watch into a chair, your ballpoint pen or torch into a massive sculptural light fitting […]
Unit London has always been on the move. Starting with pop-ups in West London in 2013, it has gone from strength to strength, moving to Soho and Covent Garden before it settled in its long term base in Hanover Square. Now it has gone back west, this time to King’s Road in Chelsea and the […]
Gilbert and George were young once! Though they were born in the early 40′s, we are so used to their recent work that it is a surprise to see the artists as young men in their early 30′s as they walk through verdant landscapes describing in drawings and narative a day in their lives from […]
While three of the main auction houses in London concentrating on Russian art this week, Phillips broke out and held one of its regular sales of modern and contemporary limited prints, rugs, ceramics and other works, with sunshine flooding in for short periods through the ground floor windows of their Berkeley Square gallery to illuminate the […]
Outdated, but perfect and unused vacuum cleaners with brand names of “Celebrity” and “Convertible” stand to attention or hang in fluorescent-lit boxes alongside advertising photographs, while intricate reflective stainless steel model railway engines and carriages encase American whiskey, giant eggs in a bowl have sexual innuendoes, basketballs floating in perfect balance are set against photographs […]
It’s a good year for Pop Art and for Andy Warhol with exhibitions at the Gagosian in Britannia Street, London, the Ashmolean in Oxford, plus his massive installation “Shadows” on display in the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Now the two floors of the Halycon Gallery in New Bond Street London are filled with his work from […]
Looking like a young rebel of the 1960’s with his denim suit covered in badges (one of which appears to be of Elvis Presley) and holding a leaflet also with Elvis, Peter Blake’s “Self-Portrait with Badges” in Tate Britain is an appetiser to his exhibition “Peter Blake: Portraits and People”, at the Waddington Custot Galleries, […]
Christian Marclay’s exhibition at the White Cube in Bermondsey London celebrates pop art and the era of vinyl records, with a 21st century twist that also includes video, music, noise and film. The exhibition starts in the main corridor where noisy videos show empty glasses, bottles and cans found abandoned on streets in the East […]
"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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