Commissions, News and Media

Hospital Rooms Fundraiser auction, in partnership with Bonhams and Hauser & Wirth, took place this summer. Over £430,000 was raised for the charity who take world class art into mental health hospitals. Works donated by artists including Martin Creed, Rashid Johnson, Charles Gaines, Chantal Joffe, Do Ho Suh and Caroline Walker.

Hospital Rooms - Rosebud Centre, West Malling, Kent

‘Hospital Rooms envisions a new world where abundant and meaningful creative opportunities are readily accessible to people with severe and enduring mental health diagnoses, and where mental health hospital environments are inventive cultural spaces offering solace, comfort and dignity. Since 2016, Hospital Rooms has undertaken a number of acclaimed projects, completed in some of the most challenging mental health settings. A roster of artists is carefully selected for each Hospital Rooms’ project according to the needs of each community.’

Hauser & Wirth

I was invited to be part of the Hospital Rooms project at the Rosebud unit in Kent, along with four other artists who’s work relates to the environment and sustainability. Winsor & Newton generously sponsored, supplying materials.

Invited international artists exhibiting in a group show, a collaboration between Prof Andrew Parker and Sage Culture, working with the theme of colour and responses to it.

Professor Parker, a UK scientist and artist, has dedicated his life to researching photonic structures and eyes: evolution, development, and biomimetics. His main field of study is the diversity and evolution of structural colour in nature.

‘Very early in his career, Andrew began identifying microscopic structures in animals and plants that reflect the light like tiny prisms and holograms. As a result, the colours perceived by the human eyes have a vivid and bright hue that, until now, could only be found in nature.

After many years of experimentation, Andrew succeeded in reproducing these colours in his laboratory using industrial machines. These are considered the world's brightest coloration and became known as Pure Structural Colour.’

For more information about the participating artists, gallery and Andrew Parker view a digital copy of the exhibition catalogue, link below.

www.sageculture.com

725 E Washington Blvd - Downtown Los Angeles CA. 90021 – USA
By appointment 10th Dec - 25th Feb 2023

Like there is hope and I can dream of another world

Hauser & Wirth, 23 Savile Row, London W1S 2ET
19 August - 14 September 2022

In the summer of 2022, Hopsital Rooms held an ambitious exhibition at Hauser & Wirth to share their work and raise funds for upcoming projects. The show included major new installation based artworks by long term Hospital Rooms collaborators Mark Titchner, Harold Offeh and Michelle Williams Gamaker.

It will also played host to an investigative and collaborative arts programme that engaged wider artists and arts organisations who joined Hospital Rooms and Hauser & Wirth in imagining a new future for mental health services.

My painting ‘Hope Full’ was part of the auction in aid of this brilliant charity.

REWILD

Solo Exhibition at Grove Square Galleries, London

29th April until 11th June 2021

Selected for RA Summer Exhibition

This Winter 6th Oct until 3rd January 2021 #summernotsummer

Evening Standard Feature

Ambiguous Nature

// JULY 19th- AUG 14th // 

Solo Show

An exhibition of new landscape paintings which look towards on uncertain future. Dystopian themes have influenced the theme belying the celebratory feel of these new works.

Read a review here.

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After Eden

April 16-28th // PV 17th 6-8pm //

Curated by Mehta Bell Projects at Herrick Gallery, London

January 2018 Exhibition

FRESH PAINT at Messums Wiltshire

FRESH PAINT at MESSUMS WILTSHIRE 6 January – 4 February 2018 

From Messums website;

Messums Wiltshire is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition of 2018, Fresh Paint. Displayed in the Long Gallery, Fresh Paint will showcase a mixture of established and emerging artists, from Royal Academicians to those just out of degree shows based around the country. Artists will include Orlanda Broom, Tom Hammick and Stephen Chambers RA as well as a slew of exciting new painters including Katherine Maple.

The thematic strand through this diverse range of paintings, which weaves them all together is colour. Apart from being critically lacking in the winter scenery, many cultures mark their New Year celebrations by using bright, cheering colours in the form of fireworks or costumes. The use of optimistic hues symbolise — like our exhibition — the hope and the promise of the year’s opening months.

Fresh Paint nods to these celebratory traditions by noting the important colours of other cultures and focusing on vibrancy, dynamism and saturation in order to banish those cold and grey winter days.

Orlanda Broom’s practice takes two distinct forms: lush, exotic landscapes and abstract pieces. Connecting these bodies of work is a strong sense of colour, references to organic forms and the exploration of the mediums she works with. The abstract paintings are created through a process that involves no intervention with tools or brushes, just the flow and manipulation of the medium on the canvas. Her landscapes represent fantastical, re-imagined places, which in some sense are a rose-tinted view of the natural world. The surface joyousness is tempered by an uneasy sense of abandonment, a place untouched and timeless but a paradise that would ultimately ensnare.

Artists include:

Iain Andrews, Orlanda Broom, Simon Carter, Stephen Chambers, Freya Douglas, Tom Hammick, Kathryn Maple, Wolfe von Lenkiewicz, Wang Yuting

Interview for Jacksons Blog about 2017 highlights and working on Manna Hata

Manna Hata Commission

Large scale painting commissioned for the Four Seasons, Down Town NY. Installed in the lobby of the recently opened hotel. The painting references Manhattan's modern history. Time-lapse and short interview here. 

Money Week

Article by Sarah Ryan, founder of New Blood Art on investing in art.

The Art Masters section of the webiste focuses on mid-career artists and some small scale work is available to buy there

https://newbloodart.com/artist/2626/orlanda-broom

Sir Peter Blake's Collage

I was invited to be included in the giant collage by Sir Peter Blake that covered Mandarin Oriental, London during renovation works (row three, seven from the left!). Five of my paintings hang in the Rosebury Room at the Mandarin.

Commission for Mandarin Oriental London