With the ongoing extensive renovation of the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London, the bespoke collage ‘Our Fans’ by Sir Peter Blake will be taking up residence on the hotel’s Knightsbridge façade. Sir Peter Blake, a leading figure in the art world, and often referred to as the ‘Godfather of British Pop Art’, has been commissioned by Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group to create the huge collage entitled Our Fans, creating an eye-catching diversion along Knightsbridge. Our Fans is the largest artwork Sir Peter Blake has ever created, and brings together 100 prominent faces, from Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren to Joanna Lumley and Jenny Packham. All are regular guests at Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London as well as fans of the Group’s hotels around the world. “Some of my first works were collages of crowds of people; this piece is in the spirit of The Beatles 1967 Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album,” said Sir Peter Blake. The collage is the size of 38 double decker buses at 70.7m wide and 24.88m high. It weighs over 1055kg and has taken over 10 hours to install. Morgan Freeman, Sir Peter Blake, Sir Paul McCartney are over 15 metres tall. All the confetti pieces are made up of small multi-coloured fans.
