New Artists: Orlando Campbell at 33 Tite Street
Channel: NewArtistsNA
Date: 2012-06-06

Orlando Campbell talking through his work in the New Artists exhibition The Space Between.

The Space Between is an exhibition of new paintings and sculpture by British artist Orlando Campbell (b. 1985) presented by New Artists at the Chelsea studio once used by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent, who lived and worked there for nearly 30 years.

After studying painting at Central St Martins, Campbell moved to Helsinki, Finland, where his work was influenced by the barren landscapes and remoteness of Finnish life. On his return to London he spent three years studying historic carving and restoration. Among other commisions Campbell Orlando Campbell worked on preparatory drawings for John Reyntiens who designed and made the Diamond Jubilee Stained Glass window presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a gift from Members of both Houses of Parliament on the  occasion of her Diamond Jubilee.

33 Tite Street was commissioned by the Oxford Street furnishers Jackson & Graham in 1880 and designed by the architect Robert Edis.The American painter James McNeil Whistler lived in the building from 1881 to 1885 and fellow American painter John Singer Sargent purchased it in 1896. Sargent was born in Florence in 1856 and traveled the world establishing himself as the foremost portraitist of his generation, before settling in london at Tite Street. Another notable resident on Tite Street during this period was the writer and poet Oscar Wilde. Margaret Thatcher and Princess diana both sat for portraits in the studio and painter Augustus John used it in the 1940s. Sargent lived and worked in the building until his death in 1925, since when it has remained a private residence.