Architect: Deanna Petherbridge

In Defence of Metaphor
9 December 2021

In Defence of Metaphor9 December 2021

– Deanna Petherbridge

This text concludes Deanna Petherbridge’s series Drawing as Metaphor. The complete series will appear as a printed publication in the new year, designed by Studio Christopher Victor; the drawings will be on show at the Art Space Gallery (84 St Peter’s Street, London N1 8JS) in an exhibition titled Deanna Petherbridge: Drawing… Read More

art practice drawing as metaphor (series)

Architectonic Landscapes
9 November 2021

Architectonic Landscapes9 November 2021

– Deanna Petherbridge

This text is the fifth in a series by artist Deanna Petherbridge in which she comments on a number of her recent pen and ink drawings. The drawings use imagined architectural imagery as a metaphorical means to deal with complex subject matter about social and political issues. Read the introduction to the series, here.… Read More

art practice drawing as metaphor (series)

The Order of Terror
28 September 2021

The Order of Terror28 September 2021

– Deanna Petherbridge

This text is the fourth in a series by artist Deanna Petherbridge in which she comments on a number of her recent pen and ink drawings. The drawings use imagined architectural imagery as a metaphorical means to deal with complex subject matter about social and political issues. Read the introduction to the series, here.… Read More

art practice drawing as metaphor (series)

Unpeopled Places
23 August 2021

Unpeopled Places23 August 2021

– Deanna Petherbridge

This text is the third in a series by artist Deanna Petherbridge in which she comments on a number of her recent pen and ink drawings. The drawings use imagined architectural imagery as a metaphorical means to deal with complex subject matter about social and political issues. Read the introduction to the series, here.… Read More

drawing as metaphor (series) art practice

Drawing on History: Mirages, Interventions and Contestations
10 June 2021

Drawing on History: Mirages, Interventions and Contestations10 June 2021

– Deanna Petherbridge

This text is the first in a series by artist Deanna Petherbridge in which she will comment on a number of her recent pen and ink drawings. The drawings use imagined architectural imagery as a metaphorical means to deal with complex subject matter about social and political issues.  Late last… Read More

drawing as metaphor (series) art practice

Crossing the Abyss
1 May 2021

Crossing the Abyss1 May 2021

– Deanna Petherbridge

This text, first published in Women Writing Architecture (2021), introduces a new series by artist Deanna Petherbridge in which she will comment on a number of her recent pen and ink drawings. The drawings use imagined architectural imagery as a metaphorical means to deal with complex subject matter about social… Read More

drawing as metaphor (series) Extracts: Women Writing Architecture art practice

Talking to Drawings
8 June 2018

Talking to Drawings8 June 2018

– Sam Jacob

Talking to Drawings was produced to accomapny the exhibition Disappear Here (RIBA, 2 May – 7 Oct 2018), which explored the history, application and implications of perspective, how it spans truth and illusion, linking the disciplines of art, architecture and mathematics, through material from the RIBA and Drawing Matter collections.… Read More

disappear here (exhibition)

The Destruction of the City of Homs
28 November 2016

The Destruction of the City of Homs28 November 2016

– Deanna Petherbridge

A photograph of the bombed-out shell of Dresden, destroyed in February 1945 when I was six years old, has lived potently in my life-long memory bank. This, like other black and white photographs of the time, depicted a ghastly desolation in which empty-windowed facades tapering sharply from jaggedly pointed upper… Read More

projection (axonometric isometric) art practice