As you entered, you faced a huge rocking structure with strands of barbed wire, a structure full of meaning – the rocking chair of Melvin Edwards’ grandmother Coco, wire fencing used in farm enclosures to keep animals apart, barbed wire used on top of prison compound walls, in South Africa, a symbol of the segregation […]
It is December in London. Out in the countryside, it is a cold evening with a dark winter sky, which at times turns green, and the chilly forbidding landscape appears empty except for the tall shapes of trees, some solitary, some in groups, reaching up so that they touch the darkness above them. But wait, […]
It’s disco time – the colourful, vibrant, electric London reggae and club scene of the 1980′s has come to Mayfair. It’s good to see at least one of the empty spaces at the new 22-24 Cork Street development used, in addition to Stephen Friedman’s other two adjacent galleries. The entire space was used during […]
The ground floor gallery spaces in Native Land’s new development, Burlington Gate, await their tenants, albeit one is being used for a short-term display of new artists, currently Jack Killick’s Collapse II in a collaboration between Native Land and the Royal Academy of Arts. In this difficult climate for retail spaces generally, how long will […]
With the Brexit vote in July, ongoing war and immigration crises, the world economy bumping along and politicians failing to inspire trust or confidence, it’s down to artists to cheer us up and who better than David Shrigley whose ten-metre high bronze thumbs-up sculpture “Really Good” will appear on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in […]
"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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