Artists

Andrea Mills

Andrea Mills' work investigates the contrast between the viewing experience of mass produced commercial imagery, memory and the physicality and tangible nature of first hand experience.

Andrea Tyrimos is represented by Contemporary Collective. Please visit www.contemporarycollective.com to view her portfolio. A graduate from the prestigious Central St Martins, Andrea pushes the boundaries of portraiture, uniquely combining both visual and audio elements. Through her work, Andrea is able to give mental illness, a seemingly invisible illness, not only visibility, but also presence. Since graduating in 2009, Andrea has exhibited extensively, including London solo shows, and exhibitions in the UK and Europe. She was recently a finalist for the Global Art Awards, and has received the Signature Art People’s Choice Painting Award, and the Art & Escape Award. Her Bipolar Picasso series of art installations has received critical acclaim; featured in publications such as the Guardian and America’s Ability Magazine, and has led to the artist being interviewed live on BBC Global News. Other press includes the Evening Standard, Time-Out and Elle magazine, and London Live TV. Bipolar Picasso is an art installation featuring a series of intimate paintings and audio recordings, of people who have experienced mental health issues. A range of mental health illnesses have been explored via the physical medium of paint, while the creative use of audio reveals the spoken words and innermost thoughts of each sitter. The viewer becomes fully immersed in a sensory exploration of the mind. “Rendered in washed-out oil colours, minimalist detail to hair and clothing bringing out their vulnerability through their eyes. I’ve always felt that mental illness is something you wear on your face. Tyrimos has captured that” - The Guardian

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ANDREA ELLIS

Andrea often begins an idea by taking apart an image digitally, creating layers. These layers then become separate silk-screens. Using dyes and various chemicals, she is able to work in a similar way to oil painting, adding and subtracting colour and texture. Parts of these images are then made transparent, with the technique of dévoré, enabling her to work on two planes – the front image is sometimes enhanced or contradicted by the image behind. Hand painting also plays an important role; Andrea often works onto painted backgrounds or makes a gestural mark which adds spontaneity to the precise printed image. Having worked as a textile designer for many years, Andrea is always collecting ideas in her sketchbook; an exhibition, journey or photograph can all be the inspiration for her pieces. Conveying ideas and creating stories are important elements in her work, on close inspection a seemingly classical landscape can reveal a hidden twist. Andrea’s work is in private collections in Europe and is featured in the book “Textiles, Art of Mankind” by Mary Schoeser.

ANDREA WRIGHT

Andrea uses her camera to document a textural and tonal relationship with the contemporary landscape and can often be found photographing dirt, rust, drips, decay and layers of peeling paint. She discovers beautiful landscapes left by marks on a grubby wall, perceiving the transience of time and memory, the melancholic beauty in loss and neglect, damaged, weathering and withering. In the studio she uses these images and textures as a reference from which she can lose herself in the marks and the process of layering the paint, never quite knowing where it will take her.

andrea cavallari

Andrea Cavallari is a very active composer writing and receiving commissions for important music institutions such as Ex Novo Musica (La Fenice, Venice), London Sinfonietta (London), Kammeroper Frankfurt, Firenze Suona Contemporanea (Bargello Museum in Florence), etc. He is also an active visual artist where his works explore the relation between light and sound, images and music. Cavallari's recent works explore the deep nature of sound through fascinating works and installations which combine visual and sound. His compositions instead often reflect and take inspiration from the visual world, translating images into sounds. He considers his music works to be in line with the new complexity expression, where the technical and expressional limits of the performers are pushed to the extreme.

Andrei

My name is Andrei and I am a professional wedding photographer but I enjoy other types of photography as well as nature ,landscape , fashion , In general I enjoy everything that has to do with photography.

Andrew Farmer

Andrew was born in 1985 in South Yorkshire, he studied Fine Art Painting at the University of Canterbury Christ Church (2005-2008), followed by ‘The Drawing Year’ at the Royal Drawing school, London (2008-2009). Painting primarily in oils Andrew tackles a range of subjects including domestic family scenes (Interiors and garden), landscape, cityscape and portraiture. Andrew produces work which is heavily rooted in observation. The Artist thrives on the act of looking, analysing and trying to understand the world around him. “I’m a strong believer in tapping in to my locality for inspiration, to the point of permanently setting up my equipment in the garden. In this way I’m always ready to work directly from highly personal family scenes in the warmer months. It also enables me to experiment on a much larger scale than usual.” Sketchbooks play an important role in Andrew’s creative practice. Drawings serve as a vehicle to solve problems within his paintings, explore new subjects or simply to practice with no end in mind. “I think it’s such an important thing to keep on searching and experimenting and sketchbooks offer me a place to do this, spontaneously and on a variety of scales and formats.” Family is a vital bloodline to Andrew’s creativity he finds great inspiration in his young family, in the form of intimate individual portraits and large scale oil paintings of family life around the home and garden. “I love to paint the ordinary, elevating simple subjects that will cause the viewer to take more notice of the many wonderful and beautiful things surrounding us daily.”

Andrew J Millar

Andrew Millar lives in Whitechapel, East London and uses a combination of instant film, gold & silver leaf and paint to create delicately detailed collage pieces that capture a haunting mix of reality and fantasy. Andrew produces a polaroid collage each with individually hand-applied 24k gold leaf to create a unique aesthetic, with no two the same. Andrew has had solo exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, Barcelona and New York.

Andrew McGibbon

Andrew McGibbon is a photographer based in London. He specialises in photographing animals with flash, human and non-human. He is a lover of light and colour. He shows us that Nature is not abstract, something removed from our existence, but intrinsically linked to humanity. It is through our eyes that nature fully exists. In this, he endeavours to remind us that the earth is an ancient place that we are all privileged to live on, that we didn't get to where we are without the help of animals and that we should honour them for their part. “I began out of a deep interest in the animals themselves, but in the journey, I moved into the relationship between animals and the wild, and then into the connection between animals and humans. I started to realise that the more I looked at the earth and the animals that inhabit it, the more I saw the beauty of human beings.” His work displays a technical level in lighting that, in his context, has few equals. Vibrant colours merge with smoke machines showing us familiar animals in and unfamiliar or even surreal way. Exploring the fine art world since 2012, Andrew's work has been published online on many platforms. Some notable groups that repeatedly write about and interview him are Wired.com, Fubiz, Profoto, Feature Shoot and Peta Pixel. Originally from South Africa, Andrew now lives and works in North London and is a resident artist at The Hornsey Town Hall Arts Centre, Crouch End. In 2015 at HTH, Andrew produced two events called 'Animal Lectures' where he invited an audience in to watch him create Caiman crocodilus and Wolves&Vultres. This helped to show that the images rely heavily on a meticulous photographic process and not much post-production at all. It also shows that there is a journey before the still image, a path that leads to a moment. He is hoping to do one more lecture this year and plans on it being an ode to evolution.

Andrew Newton

Andrew Newton is an award winning fine artist from United Kingdom. He received his 1st class BA (hons) Fine Art degree in 2008, where after he continued his practice as a hyper-realist portrait/abstract painter. Exhibiting all around the country and abroad, whilst winning notable awards such as the 1st prize ROI award at the Mall Galleries, London. Since 2013 Andrew has taught technical painting and drawing skills to students of mixed ages, also working as an art instructor for various charities.. In recent years, Andrew’s art practice consists of different subject matter including portraits, expressive landscapes, distorted figures and interior spaces. His current painting style experiments from abstracted realism, expressionism to technical representation.

Andrew Painter

Andrew Painter was born in Wolverhampton in 1957. He studied at Goldsmith\'s College before setting out to travel the world and develop his own artistic style. After some years teaching, he took up painting full time and for over 20 years has shared his time between England and France where his work has attracted many collectors. Andrew has in the past exhibited his work in London and the UK through Enid Lawson, now retired. He is now represented by the Linda Blackstone Gallery in the UK and in several galleries all over France. He enjoys showing his work in unexpected venues such as hospitals, and occasionally takes on very large scale commissions, one of which adorned the Galeries Lafayette Department Store in Paris with a \"constellation of large striped socks!\" The artist recently exhibited at the Florence Biennale, as well as creating the décor for the Nice Jazz Festival. An artist unlike any other: an original talent with an instantly recognisable style! Andrew\'s work is \"a joy\" and we look forward to representing him in the UK and at art fairs all over the world in the coming years.

Andrew Paul Hayward

Creating contemporary works using traditional methods. Film is always the first option and whether Large Format Black and White or Medium Format Colour it is the essential medium. Creating works which explore areas very little known such as conservation areas at the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth. Drawing attention to the things we may not consider but that are right in front of us such as needle bins in public toilets.

Andrew J Millar

I live in Whitechapel, East London and produce work only using vintage Polaroid SX-70 cameras whilst exploring manual manipulation techniques using analog instant film. I use Instant film to achieve effects by manipulating the emulsion during the developing process, separating the image emulsion from the film base, double exposing the film, overlaying the transparencies or by varying the temperature and the developing time to enhance the films surreal mood. I have had Solo exhibitions in Vienna, Barcelona, New York, Paris, Berlin and taught workshops at The Photographers Gallery in London.

Andrew WENRICK

Andrew Wenrick received a Masters in Architecture from the University of Oregon and moved to Massachusetts to become a licensed Architect. Currently he is living and working in London, England where his intense focus and motivation continues to fuel art and building projects. In architecture the projects become rich through the process of design. Working and re-working iterations through models and drawings develops the project from a simple idea into an interweaving of informed decisions that transcend the project into something great. Furthermore, the more constraints placed on an architectural project from the beginning inform the design and guide the process towards a better project. The process of making art is the same way. Discoveries are made and built upon during the total immersion of making a piece that informs that piece or contributes ideas for the next. Like architecture, craft is an important component in working. This thorough mindset of craft that is practiced throughout the process yields pieces that are just as important as the finished piece that is being constructed. Jigs are made. Waste is collected. A book has been cut in order to extract the words or names needed for a drawing. Something from everything and everything is a project. Collections: germany, france, sweden, switzerland, japan, united kingdom, canada and america

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Andrusha

Free artist, living in Egypt (Hurghada). Oil paintings on canvas.

Andrzej Szymczyk

MY SCULPTURE IS FOUNDED IN HYPERREALISM IN HUMAN AND ANIMAL FORMS WHICH I THEN BLEND WITH VARYING DEGREES OF EXPRESSIVE INTERPRETATION. CAREFUL STUDY AND DEEP ANALYSIS OF THE ANATOMY OF EVERY SUBJECT I SCULPT ENABLES ME TO RECREATE THE SUBTLEST TENSIONS OF MUSCULATURE AND MOVEMENT AND TO ARTICULATE MY VISION WITH HIGH LEVELS OF ACCURACY. THIS DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS GIVES ME THE ABILITY TO MANIPULATE AND CREATE SOMETHING NEW, RATHER THAN SIMPLY REPLICATE EXISTING REALITY. IN DOING SO, I STRIVE FOR MY SCULPTURES HAVE AN EMOTIONAL IMPACT ON THE VIEWER, TO CALL TO MIND MEMORIES OR TELL STORIES, AS IF EACH HAS ITS OWN SPIRIT THAT EMERGES FROM WITHIN. MY CURRENT WORK REPRESENTS MY PERSONAL EVOLUTION AS A SCULPTOR. MY EARLIER ANIMAL AND FISH SCULPTURES ARE AS RELEVANT TODAY AS WHEN I CREATED THEM, SYMBOLIZING MY REVERENCE, FASCINATION AND DEDICATION TO PROTECTING THE NATURAL WORLD, WHILE REMINDING US OF ITS FRAGILITY AND NECESSITY. I NOW ADD TO THAT BY FOCUSING ON ASPECTS OF THE HUMAN FORM. NOT AS A STATIC POSED FIGURES, BUT RATHER AS ENTRY POINTS FOR CONTEMPLATION AND DIALOGUE ON SOCIAL AS WELL AS POLITICAL ISSUES.

Andy Allen

Andy Allen, Born 1989, lives and works in Prague, since graduating he has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and internationally. His Paintings are held in prestigious public and private collections throughout the UK and Abroad Allen continues to explore painting with an emphasis on the key elements of painterly language: materiality, colour and composition. Allen's work focuses on the process of painting from the initial building of compositions, to their transition into paint. The works take a diverse approach to oil painting investigating different ways of engaging with the viewer, whilst exploring the relationships between architecture, design and the tradition of oil painting.

Andy Owen

I am interested in our urban environment, the sprawling metropolises, the infrastructure that feeds them and how we experience it all. I find an uncanny beauty in London's ever changing landscape and am fascinated by glimpses of spaces that are just out of reach and the ever present neon glow. Taking inspiration from my everyday surroundings, I collect snapshots of this banal yet beguiling landscape using the immediacy of the camera on my mobile phone. This imagery undergoes digital manipulation before being translated into painterly gesture, alluding to the notion that we increasingly encounter our environment mediated through technology. Evidencing connections diverse as 19th Century Sublime, optical abstraction and Science Fiction, I construct new spaces within my work which engage with the city through digital, cinematic and painterly space. Andy is a Contemporary Collective Artist

Andy Rhodes

The sole focus of my practice explores the traditional inquiry of painting, concentrating on space in representation, the illusion of the picture plane, the command of the gaze, a theory explored by Jacques Lacan, and the creation of tension and atmosphere within the surface of the canvas. I use a process of fragmentation and manipulation of photographic imagery, both found and self-taken, as a starting point, and transform the composed photographic imagery further during the translation into paint, creating my own pictorial language. The result of this is an amalgamation of the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, hope and despair, the familiar and the unfamiliar, feelings that are echoed in the Freudian concept of the uncanny, an optimistic vision of an oblivious future, devoid of human presence, both in subject and on an emotional platform. These are places and vistas that were once occupied but now are not, a visual utopia not for the future of humanity but solely for the beauty of the landscape. Born 1981. Currently living and working in Norwich, Norfolk 2012 – 2014 Norwich University of the Arts – MA Fine Art. 2006 – 2009 Cambridge School of Art – BA (Hons) Fine Art.

Andy Short

I began studying art quite late in life. My first attempt at a painting was in 2003. I love the old masters, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Titian etc. "My works are very traditional in style and method, but with a modern world depicted within their subjects and concepts. Sometimes analytical, sometimes symbolic, I draw my inspiration from many sources, including mannequins in shop windows, still life objects and other subjects that intrigue me. My works play with confusing visual perceptions. Usually involving two or more images that relate or conflict with in an image. For example a sharp focus painting of a mannequin placed on a blurred background with a floating still life, such as, a post-it note seemingly stuck on the canvas creating three different spaces yet all relating in some way, the painting 'Attraction' is a good example. The confusion comes when the viewer believes the post-it to be real, or that the Mannequin has been stuck on to the background, when, in reality none of it is real it is all just paint! Within the images (paintings) there are also elements of humor, sometimes irony but always balance. The objects that I paint usually relate to something. I find an image/person I like, and then find an object that makes it something more, and then place them together in some and that is how my paintings develop. Usually there is a little message within the collection of images, some may say there’ a Sinicism in the message, I would say their a humours ironic look at today’s society, through an attractive image!