NÍALL AND RANA BEGUM COLLABORATION ON THE RA SUMMER SHOW
MAY 2022

Artist Rana Begum, the co-curator with Níall for this years Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, working on plans for the curation alongside Holly Galbraith and Alastair Browning.
Artist Rana Begum, the co-curator with Níall for this years Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, working on plans for the curation alongside Holly Galbraith and Alastair Browning.
In their August issue entitled ‘Home’, the Architects’ Journal has featured an article on the practice’s remodelling of Duncan Terrace, a Grade II-listed Georgian house in Islington. After winning a private competition held by the clients in 1999, the residential project has spanned over a decade and is now complete. The internal arrangement of the house has been extensively remodelled and a dedicated gallery space built at the end of the courtyard garden, to house the clients’ collection of contemporary art and ceramics.
The main house is linked to the gallery space through a double-height passageway, formed between the existing listed flanking garden wall and a new screen of cast plaster blocks, set behind translucent glass. The screen gathers light from both sides making the cast volumes appear to float, with light able to penetrate around each block held in the array.
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