Iain Andrews
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Biography
Iain Andrews was born in 1974 and lives and works in Manchester, England. He studied fine art at Aberystwyth School of Art. Andrews’ work mixes the colour palette of contemporary abstract painting with the cracked paint and varnish associated with Renaissance masters and nostalgic Victorian painting, from which he also appropriates various compositional and figurative elements. He is a member of Contemporary British Painting and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Andrews 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 Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce GM Art Prize 2016,
Selected collections
Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting
Selected solo exhibitions
2015 - Changeling, York College Gallery, York, England.
2014 - Re:view, solo exhibition, Castlefield Gallery, 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