Iain Andrews

Iain Andrews
Education	Aberystwyth University and University of Sheffield
Occupation	Artist, Painter

Iain Andrews is the contemporary English painter. He was born in 1974 and lives and works in Manchester, England. He received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA Hons) in Fine Art and a Master of Arts (MA) in Painting from University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University) and was awarded a Post-graduate Diploma (PGDip) in Art Psychotherapy from University of Sheffield 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. In 2009 Andrews was one of twelve artists chosen to appear in the BBC 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 Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce GM Art Prize 2016,

The Priseman Seabrook Collection of 21st Century British Painting

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

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