Exhibitions:
Publications:
November 2024 “Things people say when you say you are autistic.” Self-published zine
Work:
2018 – Current: Various (Commissions for illustrations, packaging, portraits, avatars, brochure cover for specialist holiday company)
2018 and 2023 - Current: This New Ground (collaboration by doing work and design commissions for projects)
2014 – 2020: Kite Studios (Studio Assistant, helping prepare materials for lessons)
2015 – 2017: Kite Studios (Portrait making project and commissions)
27 March – 7 Jun 2026 “Inside, This New Ground” (Commissioned piece telling Ray’s story across 12 panels part of the presentation of an oral history project about learning disabled people in Portsmouth), for Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
1st – 9th November 2025 “Narare la Neurodivergenza” (Narrating Neurodivergence) (Solo Exhibition), Galeria Boragno, Busto Arsizio, Italy
2nd – 30th April 2025: “Autism Acceptance” (Solo exhibition), Sands End Art and Community Centre, Fulham
22nd – 23rd February 2025: Parallax Art Fair, Chelsea Town Hall
30th November 2024: Winter Art Fair, Kite Studios
September 2024: “Celebrating Neurodiversity”, Kite Studios (Askew Road Arts Festival)
16th – 18th February 2024: Parallax Art Fair, Kensington Town Hall
30th June – 3rd July 2022: Greater Brighton MET Graduate show, Regency Town House, Brighton
8th – 11th June 2022: Greater Brighton MET Creative Industries Degree Show
14th – 24th November 2017: Inside Out (Group show with two other ND artists), 83 Askew Road Pop up Gallery
Residencies:
September 2025 – March 2026 This New Ground and Aspex Gallery Portsmouth: Creating large scale text-based artwork that tell the story of a learning disabled person’s life experience that was recorded during This New Ground’s Groundwork project to record the oral history of learning disabled people in Portsmouth. It also includes an image of the main location in that persons life story and two portrait images of the person. The work will be displayed in a walk through structure which will be part of an exhibition held at Aspex in March 2026. For a month between September and October 2025, I did the first part of the residency at Aspex, followed by the remainder in home studio.
Press:
July 2025 Neun Magazine “Orlando Richardson Is Reframing the Narrative Around Autism” by Martina Appendino https://neunmagazine.com/2025/07/18/orlando-richardson-is-reframing-the-narrative-around-autism/
October 2025 Juliet Art Magazine “Narrare la Neurodivergenza” by Martina Appendino Narrare la Neurodivergenza – Narrating Neurodivergence
Education:
2022-2023: University of Portsmouth - MA Illustration (2023)
2019-2022: Greater Brighton Metropolitan College (University of Brighton)
BA Communication Design (Graphic Design) (2022)