How often do you visit a place, a building or an art exhibition and discover later that you have missed key details? One of the joys of going back again to places where you have been before is that you discover new things that you didn’t spot on previous visits. At Two Temple Place, built […]
If you were to be allowed to freely explore the immense collections of the British Library, how many British authors would you find had in fact come from other countries – Joseph Conrad, for example, the author of ‘Heart of Darkness’ was Polish; Hanif Kureishi author of ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’ is of Pakistani and English […]
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 […]
At the ‘New Now’ preview of the auction next week at Phillips, it is fun to see how many works follow the theme of the King’s College London exhibition ‘The Classical Now’, taking inspiration from classical art and the search for beauty and perfection. Quite a few, it seems. Some are obvious such as Viktor […]
Paul Fryer’s Black Phoenix is perhaps representative of what those affected by the Grenfell tower fire are hoping for the future – that they can recreate a new life from one of the blackest tragedies to affect London. Tacida Dean’s new work “Lay the dust with Tears” portrays the dust clouds that would have swirled […]
It is June and the start of the London summer season with the Royal Academy Summer Show. As usual, the walls of the Royal Academy are awash with paintings, drawings, photographs and other works, set off by sculptures in the centre of the rooms. Many of the artists you would expect are here, such as […]
While politicians are making emotive statements about immigration in the Brexit debate, artists are reminding us that immigration is not just about numbers, it is about people, human beings, who may have sacrificed everything to seek a better life and who often have made – and continue to make – an immense contribution to British culture, […]
Outside is a sandy beach on which, when the tide is out, children will create patterns in the sand and build sandcastles and other structures, until washed away by the sea. Inside, a rake rotates continually across a circular bed of sand creating lines and then smoothing them out, over and over again, a smaller […]
"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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