Outside, Antony Gormley’s statue stands alone looking out across the courtyard to Bermondsey Street, with the Shard at London Bridge in the distance. Inside, above your head, you might sense traces of a helicopter in the neon rotor arms, the body and the circular wheel – in fact the shapes are derived from drawings of […]
Was it a happy accidental coincidence or was it a plan that there should be exhibitions by the Hungarian artist Dora Maurer (born 1937) at Tate Modern and, a 15 or 20 minute walk away, at the White Cube in Bermondsey? Art aficionados needed to start at the retrospective at Tate Modern and then […]
If you looked carefully, you might have found Cuba hanging from America in Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum’s large glass mobile ‘Map’ with the different continents slowly twirling round the gallery space 0x9x9 at the White Cube at Bermondsey. It has, along with the other works in her recent exhibition, now been packed up and moved […]
Different people see the world through different lenses. Some see it in black and white, precise and factual, as newspaper reporting should be; others see it with feelings and emotions, the two being different ends of the objective-subjective spectrum and, of course sometimes one can move into the other. Objective factual reporting in wars, conflicts, […]
Is a pipe organ a prototype of the modern computer? It has keyboards – often many – and sophisticated mechanisms that could be considered to mimic the earliest computers that, when used at their best, create the most beautiful music, reverberating throughout our ancient cathedrals and churches. The magnificent Father Willis organ of Salisbury […]
Down to London Bridge and then to Bermondsey to find the White Cube which has been taken over by Tracey Emin with ‘A Fortnight of Tears’ showing three massive sculptures, photographs, paintings, drawings and other objects focussed on the themes of love, sex, death and fear. As with the best shows at the White Cube, […]
Sometimes in art, apparently simple ideas, well executed, can be extremely powerful and moving. At the White Cube Gallery in Bermondsey, the floor of the south gallery has been completely paved in stone, on which 300 names of victims of the immigration crisis appear and disappear in an atmosphere of hushed silence within the white […]
Earlier in the week, I had been on a visit to the London Transport Workshop Museum at Acton Town where the original paintings for many of London Transport’s posters are stored in a controlled environment on moveable metal mesh screens, artistic memories of an era which when poster design was at its zenith. The […]
Gilbert & George are back at the White Cube in Bermondsey, their last exploration south of the river being “Scapegoating” in 2014. Some of the same themes are here, such as everyday life with the post office and security companies. But this exhibition is different. They have taken the theme of beards, which for some […]
The Surrealism art movement with its imaginary worlds and creatures, often created by distorting everyday and illogical objects and scenes, developed in the early 1920’s by artists such as Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali and Max Ernst. Exploring the subconscious, there were feminist accusations that the movement often played to masculine stereotypes; on the other hand […]
"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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