Look out through the windows from ‘Hysterical’ in Phillips Auction House and you might almost think there is a continuation across the road, with an odd billboard sign outside ‘Open – End of Deep End Street’ outside the window. Push the door open and enter and you are in another mysterious world, not as colourful […]
Some fathers build their children dolls houses or railway layouts, perhaps a racing track for their cars. but Charlie Fox’s grandfather built him a haunted house, in which Charles would let his imagination run wild while he pretended that he was a bat or a ghost or a werewolf. How strange is that? And, it […]
In 1897, H G Wells started to publish the serialisation of his seminal science fiction story ‘The War of the Worlds’, a battle between those of us on earth against invasion by the Martians. Looking to the future, will the battle be about humans and Artificial Intelligence’ (AI)? German artist Lawrence Lek (born 1982), who […]
It feels like another era, several generations ago, but when I first came down from Scotland to London in the ’60′s, my cousin who lived here obviously thought as a young man from the ‘provinces’ I should be shown the delights of Soho with young scantily-clad women on the street waving and encouraging you to […]
The partitions have gone, the rooflights have been filled in, and everything has been painted white above the grey concrete floor. But wait, the walls are covered in black text and coloured illustrations, with arrows like flow diagrams, the floor’s central area is covered with photographic images from night clubs and other places to create […]
Following on from Leonor Antunes’s exhibition at Marian Goodman Gallery, Swiss artist Urs Fisher in his exhibition ‘soft’ at Sadie Coles HQ has also created an exhibition with no electric lighting – in this case, absolutely none at all – nada -, by the choice of the artist. In the centre is a bronze sculpture […]
London born Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, who now lives in Glasgow (hooray), has filled Sadie Coles Gallery with weird and wonderful animals, fish, people and lizards bursting out of a backcloth of Renaissance frescos in her latest exhibition ‘Ze and Per’. Chetwynd was last at Sadie Coles creating a room, full of memories, a stage for […]
Basic first aid: you have a friend who is choking on a lump of food. What do you do? You may think that you just wallop them on the back, but the most effective way is to grab them round the abdomen from behind and, with your hands clenched together in a fist, punch upwards […]
Upstairs you climb into the cool white clean environment of the upper space, with its industrial concrete floor and daylight flowing down through the rooflights. But wait! Why is a lettuce sitting on a stainless steel box, or eggs on another box, or moss on another? Are those food items on the stainless steel table? Are we […]
Hell has only a week to go. On the 13th,, a day considered to be bad luck (even if it is a Saturday), the lights will go out on German artist John Bock’s brooding and sinister “Hell’s Bells” at Sadie Coles HQ. The centrepiece is the dark bloody western full-length film “Hells Bells, starring leading […]
"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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