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12/6/2002

Robert Orchardson

The Changing Room, Stirling

News From Nowhere
8 June - 27 July

Orchardson juxtaposes two elements in his work: carefully painted images inspired by or taken directly from classic science fiction films like Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey; and sculptural forms that echo the streamlined aesthetic of design in the 1960's/1970's. The work reflects an interest in the way we constantly re-imagine the future and how we react to our changing relationships with technology, nature and faith.

News From Nowhere consists of a series of new works conceived as a large-scale installation where each piece works with the others on various levels, with the larger pieces functioning as architectural interventions. The exhibition takes its title from a story written by William Morris in 1890 which depicts a utopian world set in the future where people have reverted to life without machines. Disillusion with the progress of the industrial revolution leads them to choose a world devoid of technological advances.

'Orchardson is interested in exploring the expectations, aspirations and fears that are projected onto what we do not and cannot ever really know.' Exhibition guide 'Beyond', DCA, Dundee, 2001

'I can remember when people throughout the world were intensely interested in the future, and convinced that it would change their lives for the better. In the years after the Second World War the future was the air that everyone breathed....confident that we could shape our world in any way we wished, dream any dream and see it come to life. For the first time the future was a better key to the present than was the past.' JG Ballard, intorduction to 'Myths of the near future', 1982

Robert Orchardson was born in 1976 and is based in Dundee. This is his first solo exhibition since graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee in 1998. Previous exhibitions include 'Beyond', Dundee Contemporary Arts, 2001 and 'Tales of Ordinary Madness', Patriothall, Edinburgh, 1999. In the past two years Orchardson has undertaken a number of public commissions including a series of large scale light-boxes at Dundee City Airport, 2000.

For further information or images please contact the gallery.

Private View Thursday 13th June 6.30-8.30pm

Open: Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm Sunday 12-4pm**

Admission: FREE

**PLEASE NOTE SUMMER OPENING HOURS (June - August)**

Exhibition supported by Stirling Council, Scottish Arts Council and Dundee City Council

The Changing Room
Unit 35 The Crawford Arcade, King Street, Stirling, FK8 1AX
Tel/Fax: 01786 479361

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