18
March 2025

Thomas Heatherwick - A modern Leonardo

Welcome to The Arts Society Chester
Tuesday, March 18, 2025 - 11:00
Cheshire View
Plough Lane, Christleton, Chester CH3 7PT
Online Event

Explore the meteoric rise of this versatile British designer, looking at Heatherwick’s creative responses to worldwide design challenges

The past decade has seen the meteoric rise of this extraordinarily versatile British designer with his acclaimed Olympic cauldron, the iconic new London bus and designs for a spectacular new HQ building for Google. Over the last twenty years the Heatherwick Studio has used an intriguing combination of curiosity and experimentation to produce a vast range of solutions to design challenges around the world. This talk looks at the problems presented, and the wonderfully creative ways in which Heatherwick and his team have responded. 

THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Ian Swankie

A Londoner with a passion for art and architecture, Ian is an official guide at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Guildhall Art Gallery and St Paul’s Cathedral, and gives tours around each venue. He is also a qualified and active freelance London guide and leads regular tours for various corporations and organisations. Since 2012 he has led a popular weekly independent art lecture group in his home town of Richmond in West London. He is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Art Scholars, one of the City livery companies.