Writer: Biba Dow

Dalibor Vesely: Shared Horizons
8 August 2022

Dalibor Vesely: Shared Horizons8 August 2022

– Biba Dow

Looking at these drawings takes me instantly back to 1993. I am sitting next to Dalibor Vesely at my desk in Scroope Terrace in Cambridge. He is talking quietly and drawing on a stack of tracing paper which he has brought with him. He draws with a light hand in… Read More

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Survey: Piazza Grande, Gubbio, Perugia
18 August 2021

Survey: Piazza Grande, Gubbio, Perugia18 August 2021

– Biba Dow

This painting was made in the early evening in the main square of the medieval town of Gubbio, in central Italy (Perugia). Reached by climbing up narrow winding streets, the Piazza Grande opens out as a belvedere to the southwest, looking across rooftops to the plain below the Apennine foothills.… Read More

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Biba Dow on Giorgio Morandi: Group and Threshold
3 March 2020

Biba Dow on Giorgio Morandi: Group and Threshold3 March 2020

– Biba Dow

Giorgio Morandi’s work focused on studying again and again a small group of domestic objects – vases, jugs, bottles – in his home in Bologna. During his adult life, he produced a large quantity of paintings and etchings which together build up a shimmering representation of his field of focus.… Read More

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Six Architects on their Dream Desks
17 December 2019

Six Architects on their Dream Desks17 December 2019

– Roz Barr, Biba Dow, Elizabeth Hatz, Emma Letizia Jones, Stephanie Macdonald and Helen Thomas

Drawing Matter recently acquired this design for a table, below. Although the work’s last sale in 1972 attributed the drawing to Thomas Chippendale, we are (perhaps wishfully) hoping that it might be an architect’s own design for desk. The sheet set off a flurry of chatter about the platonic spaces… Read More

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