Newport Street Gallery by Caruso St John

摘要

Imagine a ghostly William Blake floating past the Newport Street Gallery in Lambeth. What might he think of it, and the area around it? His shade would certainly have an opinion: at the end of the 18th century Blake lived at 13 Hercules Buildings, two minutes'walk north of Caruso St John's Stirling Prize finalist; and between 1791 and 1800, while producing works including Songs of Innocence and Experience, he watched local arable land and marshes begin their evolution into a proto-industrial area.