I wonder if Eduardo Paolozzi and Paula Rego ever met. They were born only eleven years apart, Paolozzi in Leith (in 1924), Edinburgh, of Italian parents, and Rego in Lisbon Portugal in1935. Both brought new bold, but different, dynamics into British art, Paolozzi’s work being very masculine and Rego’s focussed on feminist themes. What discussions […]
In the corridor are a number of phrases on the wall in projecting letters. One, ‘The universe lights switched off one by one’ seems uncannily predictive in the current circumstances, whether we think of coronavirus or of climate-change. Scottish artist Katie Paterson (born 1981) takes a long-term view of time and space, both backwards and […]
It seems very strange to reflect that, four weeks ago, we were in a different world of record-breaking rainfall, and, walking along the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, you had to weave round the flooded pathways along the riverbank to make your way up to the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, past Antony Gormley’s ”Six […]
The well-known international artist Loiuse Bourgeois died three years ago at the grand age of 99. Her career therefore spanned almost the entire 20th century, though she only became well-known in her 70′s. Her work is celebrated at two exhibitions in Edinburgh, at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and at the Fruitmarket Gallery. […]
"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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