Andrew Curtis

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Humanities

  Programme

  MA Printmaking, 2009

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  http://www.andrewcurtis.net/

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• I produce images of suburban dissonance by blurring physical and psychological reality. Using our shared knowledge and preconceptions of suburbia, I want to question contemporary notions of anomie, the abject and the exotic. Recurrent motifs are the shadow and anachronistic signs of cultural appropriation; significantly the monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria Araucana), used to decorate Victorian suburbia, and now a reminder of British colonial activity in the nineteenth century. Via autographic marks and hand processing, this recent series of photo etchings record the interplay of my personal encounters, consequential research and studio practice. They are archivally mounted on untreated wooden tray supports to imply a sense of the provisional, a hybrid aesthetic of Arts and Crafts and the local architects’ planning office.

• Degrees

• BA (Hons) Fine Art: Printmaking, Winchester School of Art, 2002; Foundation Degree, Fine Art: Printmaking, Kent Institute of Art and Design, 1999

• Experience

• Tutor, University College for the Creative Arts, Canterbury, 2008-Present; Studio Assistant, Coriander Studio, London, 2007-8; Tutor, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 2005-7; Printmaker, Curwen Studio, Cambridge, 2002-7

• Exhibitions

• Stone.Plate.Grease.Water, MOMA Wales, Powys, 2007; Stick*Stamp*Fly, Gasworks, London, 2007; Jetlag, Arts Picture House, Cambridge, 2006; A2V, BLOCspace, Sheffield, 2005

• Awards

• Student Printmaker, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Prize, 2009; Shortlisted, 20/21 Art Prize, 2008; Work on Paper, Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust Award, 2006