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 almost as architectural interventions. The exhibition takes its title from a story written by William Morris in 1890. It depicts a utopian dream of a 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

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 lightboxes at Dundee City Airport, 2000.