Introduction:
The work of Neil Gillespie, Design Director, Reiach
and Hall, has probably a diversity of role and function atypical of
most contemporary architects, in this short essay I would like to accept
that as an established factor and focus on his work with artists. Primarily
on the spaces where artists show their work, and in particular The
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh. It is apposite that these spaces are
conceived and built without the notion of architectural pretension, or style.
'Art needs space.
But artists and architects often have wildly differing notions of what
constitutes ideal exhibition space for art’. Although the discussion
about buildings to house art is perhaps almost completely dominated
by the architects' viewpoint’.
