It’s always worth setting aside at least a couple of hours for the London Art Fair, the largest art fair in January held at the Business Design Centre in Islington as you get to see a comprehensive selection of art from the 20th & 21st centuries. Vigo Gallery showed from their regular stable of artists: […]
The London Art Fair
ActionSpace: for artists with learning difficulties
Based at Cockpit Studios in Holborn, ActionSpace puts on a show during the twice-yearly open studios.The work exhibited is overwhelmingly joyful and exuberant yet I had never stopped to find out more as the people there were already busy with other visitors. I didn’t talk to anyone this time either but at least managed to pick up […]
Lumiere London at Kings Cross
Another freezing night saw us explore the Kings Cross area, covering displays before having to take refuge in the recently opened Waitrose cafe for heat and hot chocolate. Again, this is only a selection of what was on offer. Binary Waves by LAb[au] translated waves from surrounding mobile phones into light , creating an ever-changing and non-repeating pattern […]
Lumière London in the West End
London’s first Lumière festival took place over the coldest weekend of the winter. It was a mega-fest of social media images -they’ve been all over the net so I’ve just selected a few pieces for this post. Each piece of work was specifically designed for its site encouraging us to look up at architecture so often overlooked. The tumbling […]
More history in St Pancras Gardens
Not only containing Thomas Hardy’s tree, this former graveyard is dense with history. Sir John Soane’s family mausoleum is here, the roof of which inspired the design of our famous telephone boxes. Original drawing of the tomb.Baroness Burdett-Coutts, the first woman peer, unveiled this grand memorial and sundial in 1879 to commemorate some of the illustrious people […]
St Pancras Gardens – Thomas Hardy’s tree and The Beatles
At St Pancras Gardens near King’s Cross you can find this ash tree which has grown over the years into the surrounding gravestones. They are a record of the work Thomas Hardy, a surveyor and architect’s assistant, supervised when appointed to exhume human remains and dismantle the tombs to make way for the new Midland railway line in 1865. […]