Staring out into the wintery streets of Mayfair, Zachary Eastwood-Bloom’s statues act as sentinels for what is inside, with a very different work downstairs. Zachary is an Englishman who lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland and his work inspired by classical Greek statuary announces the theme of Unit London’s winter exhibition ‘Beyond Borders’. Not only […]
Do you have an alter ego, another personality, an imaginary friend, someone in your writing or painting that you impart something of your character to give them life? Although the term goes back 2000 years to Rome and the writings of Cicero who described an alter ego as a trusted friend, there are many examples […]
Two artists on show, but two different ways of showing them. Unit London and Blain|Southern face each other across Hanover Street as black taxis, red buses, cars, vans and bicycles wizz through the street, dodging barriers and road works – not a very happy environment for the poor innocent pedestrian, but hopefully some day peace will […]
It seems astonishing, but while there are an amazing number of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, many of them in the Royal Collection and being displayed this year, the 600th anniversary of his death, there are apparently less than 20 of his paintings in existence, which might explain the hype around the controversial sale of […]
At the centre of the deep space is an immense drawing ‘Reverence’, 11 metres long and 2.7 metres tall, covered in many different figures and parts of figures like those preparatory drawings by the great masters such as Leonardo, Michelangelo and Rembrandt, the last having a national and cultural link with the Belgian artist. These […]
Frieze goes from strength to strength, the latest fair being in Los Angeles which, with the hot weather, is quite a challenge for the organisers. The balmy autumn weather of London is much more balanced. It is, of course, not the staff in the art galleries that we care about; it is the sensitive […]
Is a skull a symbol of life or of death….or both. Skulls feature in the cultures of many societies, notably in South America where they form a remembrance back to those who have died, both friends and enemies, and also bring good luck to the for the future. In some parts of Asia they are […]
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 […]
The trappings of a rich and luxurious life, with brightly-coloured beach chairs, umbrellas and inflatable rings alongside or in the sea, in front of the a sleek super yacht, the grand houses – one Palladian; the other modernist in style – and, strangely, sitting in a row in the snow near the ski resorts. But […]
I have discovered that a friend, now retired, used to work in the basement of 3 Hanover Square when it was an HSBC Bank. In Southfields where I live, the HSBC has now become a popular Café Nero and our former NatWest Bank sits empty awaiting a new use. Will it be yet another coffee […]
"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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