Approved: 16.08.2006

Andrew Smith

Artist, Maker

Approved: 16.08.2006

My painting methodology of working on location is defined as creating ‘scapes’ (involving multiple facets of a subject) evolved through both exploratory studies and in the production of a definitive project portfolio for exhibition. Following a series of residencies beginning with Sauerbier House, South Australia in 2018, the move away from geometric abstraction was facilitated by the response

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    Artist Statement

    My painting methodology of working on location is defined as creating ‘scapes’ (involving multiple facets of a subject) evolved through both exploratory studies and in the production of a definitive project portfolio for exhibition. Following a series of residencies beginning with Sauerbier House, South Australia in 2018, the move away from geometric abstraction was facilitated by the response to the different place. Colour, Surface, Light, the exhibition title at the Australian residency, describes main concerns of my painting practice that has evolved as a studio based enquiry. Through a desire for more flexible and less structured ways of working, my painting has developed to a fluid and expressive idiom. 

    CV & Education

    EXHIBITIONS

    2022 Abstract: Then and Now. TAG online gallery with publication of painters TUBES

    2022 Paper After All. Royal Cambrian Academy, Saul Hay Gallery, Paper Gallery Manchester

    2022 Celebration, Storiel Gallery, Bangor

    2021 - 22 17th International Painting Symposium Mark Rothko Exhibition, Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia

    2021 TAG gallery online. Painters TUBES Abstract Group

    2020 "60 Days of Lockdown" A4 Luxelakes Art Museum Chengdu China. AIRE Program online presentation

    2020 Pandemic Art, CAM Museum, Region of Campania and the Municipality of Casoria City, Naples

    2019 Vision and Form, Alliance Francaise de Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India (joint)

    2019 Jingkieng, Artist Point International Residency, Meghalaya, India

    2019 SFSA Paint Open, noformat gallery, Deptford, London

    2019 3rd International Painting Plein Air “Valdis Bušs 2019”, Vilaka Municipality in collaboration with Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia

    2019 bauhaus100 CARN, Caernarfon

    2019 PAINT PS Mirabel, Manchester

    2019 Colourscapes, Royal Cambrian Academy (solo)

    2018 - 19 Colour Surface Light, Sauerbier House AiR, South Australia (solo)

    2018 - 19 A Liverpool Bestiary. Liverpool John Moores University Print Project presented at IMPACT 10 Palacete Del Embarcadero, Santander; ATINER Athens; Avenue HQ, Liverpool; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; The Williamson Gallery; The Walker Art Gallery; 500x gallery, Texas.

    2018 Royal Cambrian Academy 136th Annual Exhibition

    2018 Colour Equilibrium, noformat gallery, Deptford London (solo)

    2018 Insight with Helfa Gelf at Oriel Mostyn

    2016 R E-T A K E / R E-I N V E N T, Storiel Bangor, Oriel Ynys Môn, Royal Cambrian Academy

    INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCIES

    2021 Faberllull Olot. Institut Ramon Llull. Olot, Garrotxa, Girona, Catalunya

    2021 17th International Painting Symposium Mark Rothko, Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia 

    2019 Artist Point International Residency, Meghalaya, India

    2019 3rd International Painting Plein Air “Valdis Bušs 2019”, Vilaka Municipality in collaboration with Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia

    2018 Sauerbier House AiR, Port Noarunga, South Australia. Three month residency and exhibition. Supported by an International Opportunities Fund Grant from Wales Arts International

    2016 El Arreciado V International Wool Sculpture Symposium, Spain

    PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

    2020-21 Hygeia Frieze seven panel artwork at Llandrindod Wells. Celf o Gwmpas Walkway Project. Llandrindod Wells. Celf o Gwmpas. Powys County Council. 

    2019 Dhrupad Sansthan, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. Joint mural with Siraj Saxena as tribute to Pandit Ramakant Gundecha

    2019 Llawn Festival Mural Project: John Street Mural, Llandudno

    2014 Seven Traces Contemporary Arts Festival, Caernarfon in association with Bocs

    2013 WAVY BANNERS, ET4U contemporary art, West Jutland, Denmark

    2011 LONG STORIES FOR PERM: SPEED OF COLOUR. Perm, Russia. Public Art project with Museum of Contemporary Art Perm.

    GRANTS & AWARDS

    2021 International Opportunities Fund Grant from Wales Arts International for 17th International Painting Symposium Mark Rothko

    2018 International Opportunities Fund Grant from Wales Arts International for Sauerbier House AiR, Port Noarunga, South Australia

    2014 – 17 Arts Council of Wales, Large Organisation Grant for project RE-TAKE/RE-INVENT

    CURATION

    2022 Paper After All. Co curator Royal Cambrian Academy with Saul Hay Manchester and Paper gallery Manchester

    2014 - 2016 RE-TAKE / REINVENT Curator and Project Coordinator. 16 artists make new work from Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales collection with partner galleries Oriel Ynys Môn Royal Cambrian Academy, Storiel.

    PUBLICATIONS

    2022 painters TUBES magazine 31. Lead cover feature Abstract: Then and Now

    2021 painters TUBES magazine 23. Abstract Special Issue

    2021 17th International Painting Symposium Mark Rothko Exhibition, Mark Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia ISBN 978-9934-595-23-6

    2021 “60 Days of Lockdown" A4 Luxelakes Art Museum Chengdu China

    2019 3rd International Painting Plein Air “Valdis Bušs 2019”, Vilaka Municipality in collaboration with Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia. ISBN 978-9934-535-97-0

    2019 Srinivas, Eesha CROSSING REALMS A tribute in color to Pandit Ramakant Gundecha by Siraj Saxena and Andrew Smith. DHRUPAD  JOURNAL. Dhrupad Sansthan November 2019

    MEDIA COVERAGE includes

    2019 Vision and Form at Alliance Francaise de Bhopal. DD Madhaya Pradesh public broadcast 17.11.19

    2019 The Times Of India. Artist Pays Tribute in Colour. 19 November 2019 (print)

    2019 The Adelaide Review. January 2019. Review of Colour Surface Light, Sauerbier House December 2018 to March 2019