Robert Orchardson
London
Robert Orchardson makes sculptures inspired by science fiction imagery and futuristic design, using lo-tech materials such as wood and resin or found objects. He has a nostalgia for the Utopian tendencies of the modernist period and focuses on shapes and objects which defined that aesthetic.
Forms pictured briefly in novels or film are crafted as abstracted sculptures; a pattern from a film still is rendered as a wooden screen, low-tech resin casts playfully suggest mineral forms in an alien landscape or vintage curios.
Freeze-framing fantasy, Orchardson explores the spiritual and conceptual investment in the formal language of the modern. His work often has a spiritual quality to it and a kind of optimism, drawn from an interest in modernist and futurist architecture and design. (Michelle Cotton)
Protected Programme Projects (PPP)
2005 - Interview, Flash Art
Qualifications and training
2004 - PGDip Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London
Solo exhibitions
2011 - Endless Facade, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
2011 - Endless Facade, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2007 - Edge of the superstructure, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Berlin
2005 - Beyond, Monitor Gallery, Rome
2005 - Perfect Vacuum, Wilkinson Gallery, London
2004 - Symmetriad, Galerie Ben Kaufmann, Munich
Group exhibitions
2008 - Let me show you some things, CCA, Glasgow
2007 - Robert Orchardson and Sarah Tripp, Generator Projects, Dundee
2006 - Robert Orchardson and Alexandra Mir, International Project Space, Birmingham
2005 - New Contemporaries, Barbican, London then touring to Manchester and Bristol
Public commissions
2006 - Nexus, British Land/Seymour St, London
2005 - Carousel, The Economist Plaza, London
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