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Iain Andrews (born 1974) is an contemporary English painter. He lives and works in
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. He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA Hons) in Fine Art and a Master of Arts (MA) in Painting from
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(now Aberystwyth University) and was awarded a Post-graduate Diploma (PGDip) in Art Psychotherapy from
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. Andrews’ work mixes the colour palette of contemporary
abstract painting Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world. Western art had been, from the Renaissance up to the middle of the 19t ...
with the cracked paint and varnish associated with
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masters and nostalgic
Victorian painting Victorian painting refers to the distinctive styles of painting in the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). Victoria's early reign was characterised by rapid industrial development and social and political change, which ...
, from which he also appropriates various compositional and figurative elements. He is a member of
Contemporary British Painting Contemporary British Painting is an artists' collective of over 60 members, founded in 2013 by Robert Priseman with the assistance of Simon Carter. It is a platform for contemporary painting in the UK "seeking to explore and promote critical co ...
and has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2009 Andrews was one of twelve artists chosen to appear in the
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Television series " School of Saatchi", he won the Marmite Prize for Painting III (2010-2011) with his work "The East Me" (500mm x 600mm acrylic on canvas). He was a judge for the Marmite Prize for Painting IV (2012–13) and was runner-up in the
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Chamber of Commerce GM Art Prize 2016.


Selected collections

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The Priseman Seabrook Collection The Priseman Seabrook Collection is a British-based private collection founded by the artist Robert Priseman and his wife Ally Seabrook. It is composed of three distinct categories: 21st Century British Painting, 20th and 21st Century British Wor ...
of 21st Century British Painting


Selected solo exhibitions

2015 - ''Changeling,'' York College Gallery, York, England 2014 - ''Re:view,'' solo exhibition,
Castlefield Gallery The Castlefield Gallery is an art gallery in Manchester, England, located at 2 Hewitt Street, Knott Mill, Manchester. The gallery, a resource for contemporary visual artists The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, print ...
, Manchester, England 2013 - ''Il teatro dei leviatano,'' Man and Eve, London 2013 - ''The Language of Paint'' (with Richard Kenton Webb), Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, England 2012 - ''Mythopoeia'', Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington, England 2011 - Man & Eve at the Manchester Contemporary Art Fair, England 2009 - ''The Pilgrimage of Lost Children and Other Stories'', Bankley Mill, Manchester, England


Selected group exhibitions

2016 - ''Correspond,'' Artworks, Halifax and touring London, Liverpool and Rye, England 2016 - ''Sixty,'' Lubomirov / Angus- Hughes, London 2016 - Finalist in the judged exhibition ''Anthology,'' Van der Plas Gallery, New York 2015 - ''Detail,'' The Usher Gallery, Lincoln, England 2014 - ''Detail,'' H Project Space, Bangkok, Thailand & Transition Gallery London 2013 - ''Beautiful Things'', The Next Door Projects, Albert Dock, Liverpool, England 2012 - ''The Creatures of Prometheus'', International Beethoven Festival, Chicago, USA 2011 - ''Polemically Small'', Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2011 - ''We Are All In This Together'', Bureau Gallery, Manchester, UK 2010/11 ''The Marmite Prize III'', Tameside Gallery, London, UK 2010 - ''The Borrowed Loop'', Man & Eve, London, UK 2010 - ''The Crash Salon'', Charlie Dutton Gallery, London, UK 2009 - ''Salon 09'', Matt Roberts Arts, London, UK 2009 - ''British Art in the Twenty First Century'', Opera Gallery, Hungary


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Priseman Seabrook Collection

Contemporary British Painting
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