The Palace Hotel / Refuge

Commissioned installation and public campaign — Manchester, 2016
In 2016 I completed a major commissioned project for the Palace Hotel, now known as Refuge, working with Kimpton Clocktower Manchester ahead of its reopening. The project centred on the transformation of a large-scale mural into a striking acrylic mirror installation for the building’s reception area, blending architectural presence with pattern, reflection and colour.


Alongside the permanent installation, the project expanded into a city-wide public intervention. In the lead-up to the opening, I launched a guerrilla-style marketing campaign across Manchester, designing and hand screen-printing my own wallpaper. Bold, vibrant and deliberately out of place, the work was installed across boarded-up windows throughout the city, creating moments of colour and disruption within areas undergoing construction and regeneration.


Rather than operating as conventional promotion, the campaign functioned as a temporary public artwork — a dispersed extension of the main installation that allowed the project to exist beyond the building itself. For those encountering it by chance, the work offered a brief interruption to the visual monotony of the urban landscape.
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Together, the installation and campaign explored repetition, surface and reflection at both architectural and street level, positioning pattern as a way of engaging public space and inviting attention through accumulation rather than spectacle.