Bradley&Bownes are pleased to present #Utopia. This exhibition sees the derelict Clapham Orangery filled with a plethora of plant-inspired artworks as a part of the ‘Art Licks Weekend’.

Using the unused site, which juxtaposes the typical ‘white cube’-esque gallery space, it sits humbly in the Notre Dame Estate. The orangery’s unique attributes including towering Georgian columns, high ceilings and great acoustics are the perfect backdrop for the 16 contemporary artworks.

Forming a conversation between reality and artificiality, in a synthetic garden of paradise; the Latin phrase Hic Ver Assiduum Atque Alienis Mensibus Aestas sits at the top of the orangery’s façade - its translation: Here is ceaseless spring and summer in months in which summer is alien.

#Utopia has become the embodiment of this text, exploring the boundaries between the artificial and manmade, working in conjunction with the derelict state of the site and traditional architecture of this historic building. Injecting highly saturated aesthetics and idealisms, #Utopia encompasses all that is promised in the notion of utopic paradise through the creation of a perpetual synthetic summer.