'Symmetriad'
Robert Orchardson 03.12.04-22.01.05



'Robert Orchardson’s work recalls utopian tendencies described in science fiction imagery and
Futurist design. 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 sug-
gest 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.

(Text by Michelle Cotton, 'Crysal Peaks', S1 Artspace)