HUGO DALTON CONSTRUCTED NATURE
INTRODUCTION
Hugo Dalton was commissioned by the Royal Horticultural Society to create a work for the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show. The monumental twenty-four meter long canvas was hand painted and plays on the juxtaposition between the constructed nature of the flower show and the perceived permanence of the show gardens.
The drawings for Constructed Nature were made from life in two very different locations, which exist almost side-by-side in close proximity to the site of the Chelsea Flower Show. The first is the National Army Museum, where the artist focused on the two cannons displayed outside the Museum. The second was the Chelsea Physic Garden, founded in 1673, the garden is a testament to mankind’s reliance on the natural world’s capacity to heal. For the Dalton these two locations and their polar opposite displays provided the perfect ingredients for his first work on canvas, and as such represents a major development in his artist career.
Dalton is well known for his wall paintings and illuminated drawings. He has created a stage set for Sadler’s Wells in London, painted the walls of the iconic store Barneys in New York and has had solo shows at the Today Art Museum, Beijing and the Fine Art Society, London. He also makes works on a domestic scale and his collectors include Kay Saatchi, Anthony de Rothschild and Sam Parker Bowles and the David Roberts Foundation.
A preliminary drawing made of Iris Germanica in the Chelsea Physic Garden
Education
Goldsmiths College London, 1999-2002
Central St. Martins, 1998-1999
Awards
First Class Honours,Bachelor of Arts, London 2002
Art Scholarship, Malvern College 1992-1996
Solo Exhibitions
Coexistence, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, 2009
The Chaconne Light Drawings, Fine Art Society, London 2008
Hugo Dalton, Kay Saatchi Studio, London, 2006
Group Exhibitions
Hong Kong Art Fair, Hong Kong 2010
British Art Now, Edward Lucie Smith, Berlin 2009
Dream Bigger, Hong Kong 2009
Scope, London 2008
Monochromed 2: Whiteout, Fine Art Society, London 2007
20 Hoxton Square, London 2007
Full Stop, The Arts Club, London 2006
London Art Fair, London 2006
Monochromed, Fine Art Society, London 2006
Chase, Royal College of Art, London 2005
Uth, New Inn Yard Gallery, London 2004
Public Commissions
Today Art Museum, Beijing, 2011
Soho House Group, London, 2011
Park Hyatt, Beijing 2010
Derwent London, Grosvenor Place, London 2010
Sadlers Wells, London 2009
Audi / Red Mansion Foundation, Beijing 2009
The Hospital Club, London 2008
The Quo Vardis Collection, London 2008
The Roundhouse, London 2008
Barneys New York, New York 2008
English National Ballet School, London 2008
Derwent London, Portobello Dock 2007
Liberty of London, London 2006
Residencies
Art Channel, Beijing, November 2008
Dosa 818, Los Angeles, July 2004
Hastings Museum, Sussex 2002
David Roberts Collection
Univertsiy of Arts, London
Nam Lu Pat Collection
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