Andrew Gifford b. 1970
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Andrew Gifford is 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. 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. Recent exhibitions at Cromwell Place have focused on a remarkable series of woodland and scrub, places of great ecological importance which are often overlooked. The artist's intensive study of the complex tangle of branches, brambles, nettles and filtered light of coppiced woodland led to a remarkable series of large scale, emmerisive paintings exhibited between 2020 - 2024.
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Installation Shots
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Exhibitions
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Andrew Gifford
Painting from the Eagle's Nest 25 Jun - 1 Aug 2025Read more -
Andrew Gifford
New Landscapes - at Cromwell Place 12 - 24 Mar 2024Read more -
Andrew Gifford
4 Dec 2022 - 27 Jan 2023During 2022 Andrew Gifford's new work took him to the fringes of wilderness in Scotland's ancient Caledonian forest, in Ireland and Yorkshire.Read more -
Alone With Trees, Part II
Andrew Gifford 30 Nov - 12 Dec 2021Artist Andrew Gifford's solo exhibition Alone With Trees, Part II that was held at Cromwell Place in December 2021.Read more -
Alone with Trees I
Andrew Gifford 17 - 29 Nov 2020Read more -
A Baltic Journey
Andrew Gifford 19 Nov - 20 Dec 2019Read more -
India
Andrew Gifford 6 Mar - 7 Apr 2018Collectively, the India paintings provide a superb account of the way Andrew Gifford approaches landscape painting and how he succeeds in keeping an enduring tradition relevant, fresh and modern. Painting...Read more -
Paintings of Fès
Andrew Gifford 11 Apr - 5 May 2017Read more -
Singapore, Hong Kong & Tokyo: Street Paintings
Andrew Gifford 20 - 31 Mar 2017Read more -
New York Paintings
Andrew Gifford 8 - 22 May 2015Last year, an artist friend called to say that an English painter, Andrew Gifford, was on his way to New York to create a series of urban landscapes; he asked...Read more -
Cities of the North East
Andrew Gifford 17 Oct - 7 Nov 2014Andrew Gifford Cities of the North East, John Martin GalleryRead more
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Videos
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Andrew Gifford - New Landscapes
March 4, 2024Read more -
Alone With Trees, Part II - The Exhibition
Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022Read more -
Alone With Trees Part II
Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022Read more -
A Baltic Journey
Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022Read more -
Painting in the City
Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022Read more -
Two Cities: Jerusalem and Ramallah
Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022Read more -
London Landscapes
Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022Read more -
French Paintings
Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022Read more
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Biography
“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.”
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 Gallery2014 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 GalleryGroup 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 MidlandsCollections
Middlesbrough Art Gallery
New Art Gallery, Walsall
The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth
The Bowerman Charitable Trust
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Publications
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A Baltic Journey
Andrew Gifford John Martin Gallery, 2019Paperback, 50 pagesRead more
Publisher: John Martin Gallery
ISBN: 978-1-9993013-4-7
Dimensions: 26cm x 20cm -
India
Andrew Gifford John Martin Gallery , 2018Paperback , 52 pagesRead more
Publisher: John Martin Gallery
ISBN: 978-0-9932195-9-7
Dimensions: 24 x 20cm
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