Andrew Gifford b. 1970

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Andrew Gifford

 

Andrew Gifford is internationally recognised for his innovative paintings and light installations based on the landscape. His work has been widely exhibited, including solo public shows at Leeds City Art Gallery (2004), Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh (2001) and Middlesbrough Art Gallery (2000). In 2014 his exhibition Two Cities: Paintings of Jerusalem and Ramallah toured with the British Council to Al-Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem and the A. M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah.  Also in 2014 an exhibition, ‘Cities of the Northeast’ was shown at the University of Northumbria and in 2016 his exhibition ‘New York Paintings’ was exhibited in New York at the Spring Masters in the Armory building.  Other exhibitions have taken place in Hong Kong, Singapore and Houston. 

 

Over the last three years, the artist has been immersed himself in the landscapes & woodlands of Sussex and Yorkshire. Choosing to paint unassuming, almost incidental subjects, Andrew Gifford focuses in on the complexity of lichen clad trees, the quality lof ight falling on the woodland floor and so on, building up dense, keenly observed canvases.

 

‘The composition, like many of the tree paintings I have made over the last two years, is intentionally uncomposed, in an attempt to give the viewer the feeling of an incidental view, echoing the way you observe nature when surrounded by it. In my painting, which begins with small studies made outside in all weathers,  I am trying to show that there is  soul and beauty everywhere you look and to encourage you to stop and look harder.’

 

Andrew Gifford 2022

 

His work is included in the collections of the New Art Gallery, Walsall and Chatsworth House and in private collections in Europe, USA and Asia. A monograph on the artist was published in 2005.

 

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Andrew Gifford

“Painting is an attempt to show the power of these ancient trees. The bark is covered in scales that reflect a myriad of colours, it involves such a build up of colours that it has been quite mentally exhausting to paint. The boughs of the tree have such warmth of colour that they seem to glow with light.”

ANDREW GIFFORD. b. 1970, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024                New Landscapes, John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place

2022                 Andrew Gifford, John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place

2021                 Alone with Trees: Part Two, John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place
2020                 Alone with Trees: Part One  John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place
2019                 A Baltic Journey, John Martin Gallery, London
2018                  India, John Martin Gallery
2016                  Singapore, Hong Kong & Tokyo: Street Paintings:  

                        John Martin Gallery, Singapore and Hong Kong
2015                 New York Paintings, Spring Masters, Park Avenue Armory with John                          Martin Gallery

2014                  Cities of the North East, University of Northumbria, UK
2013                  Two Cities: Paintings  of Jerusalem and Ramallah, 

                        Al Ma'maal Foundation, Jerusalem and Qattan Foundation, Rammallah,                      in Association with the British Council

                        John Martin Gallery, London
2013                 Glyndebourne Festival, East Sussex
2012                  London Landscapes, John Martin Gallery, London
2011                 Spring, Amman, John Martin Gallery, London
2011                 Pigment & Light, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2010                 Budapest, John Martin Gallery, London
2008                 Istanbul Light Series, John Martin Gallery at ArtLondon
2007                Tyne Bridge Tower Paintings, John Martin Gallery, London
2005                 Paris Paintings 1, John Martin Gallery, London
2004                Leeds /Bradford Paintings part of ‘Tales of the City’,

                         Leeds City Art Gallery
2002                Berlin Paintings, John Martin Gallery, London
2001                 Fontaine Line Paintings, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
2000                 Paintings from the Sellamoto Studio,  Middlesbrough Art Gallery
1999                 The Limehouse Series, John Martin Gallery, ArtLondon
1993                 Artist in Focus, Middlesbrough Art Gallery

 

Group Exhibitions

2013                 32 Paintings, Phoenix Art Center, Brighton
2000                Blue, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
1996                 The Discerning Eye, selected by Susan Moore, Mall Galleries, London
1996                 Northern Lights, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1994                Laing Art Exhibition, University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1994                 Fantastic, nine artists, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands

Collections     

Middlesbrough Art Gallery

New Art Gallery, Walsall

The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth

The Bowerman Charitable Trust

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