Art in the Everyday: an overview of Thadian Pillai’s career and the work of the Studio.
‘...Our everyday lives should be vibrant, ‘sparkling’ even. And they can be if we work with the extraordinary power of the natural world. I get to experience this firsthand every day in the Studio garden, and I believe that through our projects, we’re making it just that little bit easier for people to slow down and experience the same...’
Thadian Pillai
Garden Design Journal
May 2010
Inspired by Water: a review of the Arts & Business mentoring project that placed two undergraduate landscape students with Studio Thadian Pillai.
‘After an eight month assignment with artist and designer Thadian Pillai, two landscape and garden design undergraduate students from the Writtle School of Design have developed a series of art installations that have been viewed by the audience of 25,000 who witnessed Thadian’s own artwork, Chandelier…’
Garden Design Journal
March 2008
Off the Wall: an account of the development and legacy of the artwork, The Wall.
‘…What was formerly an unequivocal spatial boundary, has itself become ‘spatial’, both visually and metaphorically; a space in which the imagination can fly…’
Thadian Pillai
Publications
Acta Horticulturae
2012 Number 954
Digging Deeper: Approaches to research in horticultural therapy & therapeutic horticulture (Proceedings of the Tenth International People-Plant Symposium). Thadian Pillai - Editorial Board.
The Artist in our Midst II
2010
Thadian Pillai commentary concerning leading contemporary East Anglian artists.
‘…The work of Tracey Jennings demonstrates a pioneering engagement with the painted landscape and environment. Deploying pattern as a transformative device, it examines natural phenomena. The viewer is immersed in a wholly satisfying colour-scape, simultaneously spatial, yet owning the surface…’
Thadian Pillai
Lumiere Durham: Four Magical Winter Evenings
2009
Coverage of the illuminated artwork, Flashmob [Pennyferry], commissioned by Artichoke London for Lumiere Durham. Published by Artichoke in partnership with skyARTS.
‘…using low energy lighting technology… these stunning creations are a combination of beautiful artwork and eco-friendly design values…’
Poems Inspired by Plants
2009
An anthology of mesostic poetry with contributions by the Studio Thadian Pillai team. Published by CADE, the Centre for the Arts & Design in the Environment.
Metal Projects
2009
An account of the artwork, Chandelier. Published by Metal Culture.
‘…Along the avenue from the London Road to Chalkwell Hall, a magnificent installation of chandeliers and light fills the trees…’
A Manifesto for the Public Realm
2007
An artist-led publication concerning the role, process and value of public art, with contributions by Thadian Pillai. Published by Commissions East.
‘…public art should challenge our perceptions and effect the idea of possibility…’
Thadian Pillai