Book launch - The Architecture Of Connection by Jen Orpin

Join us to celebrate the launch of The Architecture Of Connection, by Jen Orpin - Thursday 22nd October 2026, 6pm-8pm: all welcome

A debut monograph from landscape painter Jen Orpin, exploring motorway bridges, underpasses and the quiet infrastructure of our journeys as metaphors for memory, loss and connection.

Jen will be available to chat about her work and to sign your copy.

at the modernist
58 Port Street, Manchester M1 2EQ

Following the loss of her father in 2015, Orpin spent three months travelling weekly between Manchester and Surrey. The roads, junctions and bridges she passed became landmarks of grief and reflection — and, over the years that followed, the subject of a body of work that has resonated far beyond her own story. With no human figures in the paintings, the work leaves space for viewers to project their own journeys, memories and losses onto these liminal, overlooked places.

Bringing together eight years of paintings exhibited widely, alongside new creative writing and reader responses, The Architecture Of Connection is published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of her father's passing and Orpin's acclaimed solo show of the same name. Designed by celebrated graphic designer Malcolm Garret, this is a tender, beautifully crafted first book about the roads that carry us through transition — physical and emotional alike.

If you can't make the launch - you can buy at the shop or online.

the modernist
58 Port Street, Manchester M1 2EQ
open 11am to 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday

Book details:

Published by the modernist

£45.00

Design by Malcolm Garrett

Hardback / Clothbound

240 pages; Colour illustrations.

286mm x 243mm

ISBN 978-1-0682995-3-7