WHITE CITY HOUSE
Reimagining British TV Classics
In 2019 I was commissioned by Soho House to create a series of artworks for their new members club that would be inside the old Television House, former home of the BBC.
The largest of these works was my take on the classic ‘Test Card F’, an incredibly nostalgic image for anyone over 30 from the UK. Reinterpreted as a 1.4m x 1m glass, steel and gold artwork, the video below shows how it was made.
This piece ended up being the defining artwork for the House, the first thing you see as you arrive in the lobby.
I also made a triptych of glass, steel and gold pieces that reworked the classic BBC logo. As well as a couple of smaller works on paper that used vintage BBC press images as a base.
Test Card F Editions
In the words of Kate Bryan, head of the Soho House art collection, my Test Card F work is “easily one of the most popular pieces we’ve ever put in a house”.
So when Soho Home launched a new range of screen print editions the Test Card was an obvious choice. The first edition sold out in under 48 hours. A year later a second edition was produced with different palette and gold leaf finish, and that also sold out in a matter of days.
As part of the launch I was featured on the ‘At Home’ section of the Soho Home blog which you can read here.
