Artists' Homes: Live/Work Spaces for Modern Makers

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Mr Grimshaw admitted the current approach was for agency staff to leave larger complicated claims until later in the year when they had “run out of easy things to do”.

Sir Nicholas Serota director of Tate Gallery and inaugural member of the Culture Strategy Group for London The Mae West Lips Sofa on display at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2017); Sailko, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons In this beautifully illustrated book, writer and photographer Tom Harford-Thompson presents individual, eccentric homes and workspaces, from a music producer’s studio to an ecowarrior’s treehouse. His evocative photographs show how our life/work spaces, whether a tumbledown cottage, a country farmhouse, or a reclaimed factory, are beautiful because of the lives we live in them. With work no longer separate from home life, we see how these artists function the spaces that inspire them, pursuing the life creative.

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Some would argue that Bridges' appointment epitomises the "new CABE": a body that is less about outspoken characters championing the cause of architecture and more about yes men getting down to the nitty-gritty of delivering on the ground.

Artists all have a story on how they arrived at a concept for an artwork or how they became an artist in the first place. I love building a selection of smaller artworks that all tell a beautiful story, sharing that with friends or over a dinner party makes it more interesting and gives artists exposure.” Sunand Prasad founder of Penoyre & Prasad and RIBA vice-president for policy and strategy Les Sparks former director of architecture and planning at Birmingham council and chair of a joint English Heritage/CABE urban panel An excellent example of Functional art is Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí’s lip-shaped red sofa. The sofa is considered a functional sculpture that is made from polyurethane foam, coated with glossy red paint. The lips are inspired by the actress Mae West, who supposedly fascinated Dalí. Dalí painted the actress in 1935. In this painting, titled Mae West’s Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment, Dalí painted the face of Mae West in the form of a furnished apartment, where the lips were sofa, the eyes as framed paintings, and the nose as a fireplace.

Her work was showcased at the 2019 and 2022 Contemporary Istanbul with Berman Contemporary and her latest solo exhibition, titled Sociogenesis: Resilience under Fire, curated by Els van Mourik, was exhibited in 2020 at Berman Contemporary in Johannesburg. Attewell also exhibited at the main section of the 2022 Investec Cape Town Art Fair.