The space is empty, the pool has long since been drained and the tiles are covered in dirt, the ubiquitous turquoise paintwork is peeling and the silent emptiness fills the space which was once alive with chatter, laughter, the splashing of water and the shouting of the lifeguard to try hopelessly to stop the children […]
Many medical schools and institutes have natural history and biomedical collections, used primarily as teaching materials for students, as do veterinary and natural history institutions. Always difficult to show to the public due to the nature of the diseases and abnormalities included in the specimens, Dutch art collector George Loudon was inspired by a visit […]
Remember the days when letters were handwritten or typewritten with copies on thin paper? No email, no computers, no digitisation… and drawings were done with that old-fashioned thing called ink and pens. And, when putting on a major retrospective exhibition of a major international artist would cost less than £2,000? What would it cost today? […]
The Whitechapel Gallery is a hidden gem in the East End of London. Opened in 1901, it was one of London’s leading modern and contemporary art galleries, famously bringing Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ to London in 1938. Constrained for space compared to, for example, the extension of the Tate into the massive Bankside power station in 2000, […]
The exposed brickwork feels like the outer walls of an ancient archaeological ruin which a strange alien force has taken over creating an inner sanctum in which the masters of the universe sit and watch, while mere mortals walk around the space in between. Swirling lights, shadowy twisting worms, strange beasts hatching from eggs […]
It seems astonishing today when visiting the Whitechapel Gallery to imagine it before 2009 when it t took expanded into the former Passmore Edwards Library next door, so that visitors move seamlessly from one building into the other. Perhaps appropriately because it was formerly part of the Library and the new Reading Room adjacent […]
Two energetically-different installations at the Whitechapel Gallery in London: The Whitechapel Gallery has been configured for flexibility – running a major exhibition on one artist such as Eduardo Paolozzi earlier in the year, or up to 8 separate exhibitions in parallel; generally a mixture somewhere in between. While the current focus of the first […]
What a contradictory climate Texas must have. At the moment, it is currently coping with the flooding disaster from the rainfall of almost biblical proportions caused by Hurricane Harvey; at other times it has to cope with immense desert dust-storms, as do other American states such as Kansas, shown in John Gerrard’s simulation of a […]
A few years ago, a brass band marched into a deserted and desolate landscape playing melancholy music, reminiscent of funeral processions in Mexico or South Africa, taking over the whole upper gallery of the Marion Goodman Gallery in Soho, London, in “More Sweetly Play the Dance“. The maverick South African artist William Kentridge (born 1955) […]
Boston has its exhibitions on art from fabric and fibre; London also has exhibitions on art using these and other materials, both natural and artificial, with the work of the American artist, Richard Tuttle at the Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Modern. The Whitechapel Gallery has an exhibition on Richard Tuttle’s work using fibre, thread […]
"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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