JO UNDERHILL / STRUCTURALEYE

Ceramicist Matt Raw is running a series of ceramic workshops at the Barbican inspired by it's brutalist architecture.

I have worked with Matt in the past photographing past exhibitions and his working processes so was thrilled when he contacted me to say he took some inspiration from the photographs I have posted on Instagram of the Barbican for the workshop. The classes look great so if you're a fan of brutalism and ceramics check it out.

For updates from Matt check out his Instagram page.

To see past collaborations with Matt please check out - Manifold in Progress
Manifold - This is how to Live
60/40 - Manifold Unfold

It was great to start the new year with a bit of time to work on my personal project, Beautiful Brutalism and add the very elegant National Theatre Studio to the project. Designed by Lyons, Israel & Ellis in 1958 it was built to house the scenery workshops, painting studio, wardrobe and offices for The Old Vic which later became the National Theatre. It is one of the earliest and purest examples of 'New Brutalism' which emerged from corbusian aesthics of raw, expressed shuttered concrete. It is the only architect-designed theatre workshop ever built in Britain so was Grade II listed in 2006 and carefully refurbished in 2008 by Haworth Tompkins Architects.

To view the rest of the images from this project please visit - structraleye

Last week I photographed the wonderful Sound of Silence. It is a site specific exhibition between painter Alessandra Taccia and ceramicist Akiko Hirai in the beautiful St Peter's Church, Cambridge in conjunction with Flow Gallery, London.

The exhibition groups the work of two different artists working in different mediums but exploring the same themes, the idea of pausing, looking and the connection between object and environment. A moment to stop time. The church has a wonderful calming energy to it and the artwork looked as though it was a permanent fixture within the church. It was an amazing project to photograph and so lovely to work with the artists and Flow Gallery.

The whole project can be viewed here and the exhibition runs until 12th May 2018.

At the end of last year Divisare, who have been great supports of my photography, featured my recently completed Thamesmead project on their Homepage.

They are a great online directory of fantastic architectural projects from all over the world and definitely worth a look!

In October I finally photographed Chichester Festival Theatre for my Beautiful Brutalism project. I had wanted to visit and photograph it since 2011 when the project first started and I wasn't disappointed! It's an extremely elegant theatre and the geometric details in the foyer were beautiful. The new work can be seen here.

My photography of Chichester Festival theatre was also featured on Divisare's homepage last week along with my National Theatre photography.

Last week I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Archinect an online publication that aims to bring architects and designers together.

I spoke about my processes and thoughts on architectural photography. To read the whole feature please visit In Focus.