Digital Pigment print on Somerset Photo 300gsm with one colour silkscreen and glaze
30.7cm x 43cm [12.1 x 16.9 inches]
Edition of 75, signed and numbered verso.
About the work
Robert Orchardson's work draws on a range of sources from modernist architecture and futuristic design, including utopian manifestos, stage sets and details from science fiction films. This cultural flotsam surfaces in architectonic sculptural installations and his prints, where he uses vivid block colours and sharp silhouettes to invoke the legacies of geometric and biomorphic abstraction. This work refers to a group of architects working in Germany in the 1920s for whom the crystal represented values of truth, transparency and transcendence in modern architecture.
This work has been included in the Government Art Collection.
About the artist
Robert Orchardson was born in 1976 in Glasgow. He is represented by Wilkinson Gallery, London.
Selected exhibitions
Robert Orchardson was born in 1976 in Glasgow. He has had solo shows at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver and Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin. Selected Group shows include Cornerhouse, Manchester and Barbican and BloombergSPACE, London. Orchardson's work is in several public and private collections including British Land PLC, London; Government Art Collection, London; Saatchi Gallery, London and Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Recent public commissions include works for The Hive, Worcester; British Airways, Heathrow Terminal 5, London and British Land PLC.
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