Sometimes modern art defeats me. Recently on show at the White Cube Gallery in St James’s were abstract sculptural paintings by the Belgian Artist Bram Bogart (1921-2012), almost an exact contemporary of my mother, but she would have not understood Bogart’s art at all. Seen previously at the Saatchi Gallery in 2017 with a theme […]
There is a saying that when God opens closes one door, he opens another. In London this autumn when Antony Gormley closes one exhibition (at the Royal Academy), he opens another (at the nearby White Cube Gallery). The White Cube exhibition is a natural conclusion for visitors to the Royal Academy for the three short […]
With the Frieze 2019 art fair arriving in coming to London in early October, the galleries pulled out all the stops. The White Cube in St James’s was awash with thousands of butterfly wings in every colour imaginable, in Damien Hirst’s first major London exhibition for 7 years, ‘Mandalas’, building on his previous works ‘Kaleidoscope’. […]
The symmetrical white spaces of the White Cube in Mason’s Yard are almost religious in character and this is the first feeling you experience as you enter and experience the work ahead of you, centrally placed like an altarpiece. Move into the room, however, and see the detail and you immerse yourself in Julie Mehretu’s […]
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 […]
"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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