In the past I was a foundation member of Artspace Bristol and later Spike Island. I worked for a London Corporate Art Consultancy and later as a professional artist. I've been a screen printer, etcher, painter and filmmaker.
I have for some years been inspired by different aspects of cultural identity, by the aesthetic and sometimes social markers that may be familiar and yet whose cogency and interest often go unattended. This involves me playing with painterly illusions or symbols, or with details that slowly reveal their secrets.
I like the idea of disclosing through the handmade, images that would otherwise be passed over as a brief digital record. In the cityscapes especially, the self-effacement of painterly expression is deliberate, the brushing muted yet not wholly absent. The works are initially present as architectural generalities and yet as the artist’s hand draws the viewer forward we can see within the grand totality different ephemera on a human scale, a dog walker, a lover in a window or fallen leaves by a subway track. By this then the pictures move from varied and large topographies to incidental scenes of shared experience that link us all wherever and whoever we are.
Running parallel in my works are more general socio-political interests, pieces whose unanswered stories are initially buried and yet partially reclaimed within the decorative symbols of pop culture, or familiar juxtapositions of (for example) writhing skulls and cars or the teeming electrical detritus at local recycling centre. I wish them to pose questions that they do not quite answer.
In all my works I wish to elicit the pure simple pleasure of sight and thought, to re-invest the familiar with a new (to quote the late critic Peter Fuller) “moment of becoming”.
Andy Price 2020
I have for some years been inspired by different aspects of cultural identity, by the aesthetic and sometimes social markers that may be familiar and yet whose cogency and interest often go unattended. This involves me playing with painterly illusions or symbols, or with details that slowly reveal their secrets.
I like the idea of disclosing through the handmade, images that would otherwise be passed over as a brief digital record. In the cityscapes especially, the self-effacement of painterly expression is deliberate, the brushing muted yet not wholly absent. The works are initially present as architectural generalities and yet as the artist’s hand draws the viewer forward we can see within the grand totality different ephemera on a human scale, a dog walker, a lover in a window or fallen leaves by a subway track. By this then the pictures move from varied and large topographies to incidental scenes of shared experience that link us all wherever and whoever we are.
Running parallel in my works are more general socio-political interests, pieces whose unanswered stories are initially buried and yet partially reclaimed within the decorative symbols of pop culture, or familiar juxtapositions of (for example) writhing skulls and cars or the teeming electrical detritus at local recycling centre. I wish them to pose questions that they do not quite answer.
In all my works I wish to elicit the pure simple pleasure of sight and thought, to re-invest the familiar with a new (to quote the late critic Peter Fuller) “moment of becoming”.
Andy Price 2020
RWA OPEN AUTUMN EXHIBITIONS
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2015
- 2018
- 2019
- 1999 Prizewinner; Cuthbert Mill Prize for Printmaking.
-2010 Prizewinner; National Open Painting Competition; Odin Trust Awarded 2nd place.
- 2012 View Gallery, Bristol; “Identity”
Recent shows in Japan
Kintetsu Gallery 2004 Saibi Gallery,Matsuyama, Kobe Diamaru Gallery, 2005 Nihon Garu, Nagoya, Ito Yokado Fine Art, 2006 Nihon Garou Nagoya 2007 Saibi Gallery, Matsuyama. Nishinomiya, Hyogo. 2008 Matsuyaka Gallery Osaka. Tobu, Tokyo. Fukuya gallery, Hiroshima 2009 Umeda Daimaru gallery 2010 Daimaru Gallery, Kobe 2011 Tokyu, Tokyo 2012 Ten Collect Shizuoka, Daimaru Kobe 2013 Ookuni Shoji, Osaka, Saibai Gallery Matsuyama, Charity Sale, Okinawa Naha 2014 Charity Sale, Kurashiki Isetan Gallery, Tokyo 2017 Saibi Gallery Matsuyama 2019 Daimaru Gallery (touring), Kobe, Hakata, Kyoto.
Past Selected Shows
National British Prints, Blackpool: 5th Seoul International Print Biennale, Korea:
12th International Kanagawa, Japan:Jill Yakas Fine Art, Athens:
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London:
London: 17th International Biennale, Llubljana, Yugoslavia: 7th Mini Print International, Barcelona, Spain: 2nd Minature Art Show, Del Bello Gallery, Toronto: 13th International Kanagawa, Japan:Art Expo New York:
12th International Print Biennale, Krakow, Poland: Kansas State University, U.S.A: 5th Internazionale de Grafica, Catania, Italy: 6th Seoul International Print Biennale, Korea: 5th Midwest International, Frostburg State University, Maryland, U.S.A: Royal Society of Printmakers, London: 2nd Irish Mini Print, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin: 16th International Kanagawa, Japan:
Solo Show. Sony Plaza Gallery, Tokyo: Baylor University, Texas:
Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago: Zella Nine Gallery, London:
Solo show. Anna – Mei Chadwick Gallery, London
Gallery 206 Missouri, U.S.A Hay Festival of Art
Collections
National Westminster Bank: General Motors : Visa International: Moscow Narodny Bank: Meryll Lynch: B.O.C: British Telecom: Standard Chartered Bank: National Bank of Detroit: J.P. Morgan Investments: Global Marketing Ltd: Bain and Co: “The Hereford Trust”: Auburn University U.S.A: Bank of Grand Metropolitan PLC: Amoco: Northwestern University, Illinois, U.S.A
ANDY'S LIBRARY
"The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library"
Albert Einstein
ANDY'S PRESENT STUDIO
1996 TO PRESENT
1996 TO PRESENT
SPIKE ISLAND 1995 - 2005
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VIEW FROM ARTSPACE STUDIO; MCARTHUR BUILDING
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LONDON STUDIO.... WAPPING WHARF
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