In north London we have the Camden Arts Centre; in South London the South London Gallery (SLG), both excellent institutions running programmes of contemporary art away from the crowded art scene of central London. Located in the no-man’s land between leafy Camberwell and colourful Peckham, the original building of the SLG was recently supplemented by […]
A strange story from the archives of the South London Gallery…… When Portuguese artist Joao Penalva was invited in 1997 to create an artwork linked to the archives of the South London Gallery, he discovered a lock of hair of the writer, philosopher and philanthropistJohn Ruskin contained in an old wooden frame and used this […]
When the South London Fine Art Gallery (as the South London Gallery was then called) opened in 1891, the artist Walter Crane designed a patterned inlaid wooden floor for the main hall, which still exists, concealed underneath the modern floor we see today, and the original design for which is displayed across the road in […]
Last year Bloomberg New Contemporaries was at Block 336 in Brixton in South London; this year it has returned to South London, but to the boundaries of Clerkenwell and Peckham at the South London Gallery (SLG) which, with the recently re-opened Fire Station, provides more and a greater variety of space. Bloomberg New Contemporaries showcases work […]
Galleries in South London are like buses. Nothing much happens and then three come along – the CCA at Goldsmith’s in New Cross, the Science Gallery at King’s College London at London Bridge, and now the Firestation at the SLG on the borders of Camberwell and Peckham. The South London Gallery (SLG) was established as […]
"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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