Artist Statement:
Andrea is a new and exciting emerging artist living and painting in Somerset. Her canvasses consist of several realities, a multiple experience of space, colour language and form. She says "These realities depending on how they are integrated convey different meanings, or if looked at subjectively communicate a myriad of subjective nuances". "The onlooker will make sense of these ambiguous elements depending on his or her personal experiences".
Recently chosen for The Royal Academy Summer Show and described as one of the most exciting and innovative contemporary artsist currently working in the South West, Andreas work is highly regarded and collected.
A week of isolation, walking and climbing in the landscape of North Wales, UK, provided me with a starting point for my latest body of work. Kant wrote ’by the art of the sublime, the spectator is in a predicament that is beyond delight, a kind of negative pleasure’, this was my experience of being alone in the welsh landscape.
The aesthetics are derived primarily from a direct visual experience an autonomous realm of signs suffused with memories of nature. They issue finally in a depiction of subjective feelings and sensations, mental reflections of artists experience of reality. I have strived to imbue honesty in my work; it has to come from within.
Education:
First class honours degree, Fine Art
University of Plymouth 2009
Awards & Distinctions:
First Class hon Fine Art degree
Student of the year 2008
Professional/Teaching Experience:
Artsist in residence
Exhibitions:
CICCIC Taunton
Somerset
"Back and Beyond"
10th May - 2nd June 2018
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Millfield Summer Show
Akinson Gallery
Street
Somerset
11th July - 13th August
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Ilminster Arts Centre
Cafe gallery
'TRUTH'
Solo exhibition
27th November -10th January 20011
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Pecorama
Arts Week
Beer, Devon
11th - 16th October 2010
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The Auction House
Canal Rd
Taunton
'EMERGENCE'
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The John Leach Gallery
Muchelney
Summer Show
26th June - 1st September 2010
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Royal Academy
Summer Show
London
14th June 22nd August
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The Central Gallery
Great Malvern, Wocestershire
'At Natures Font'
29th May - 9th June 2010
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Musgrove Park Hospital Gallery
'TWELVE'
25TH November - 17TH January 2010
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Sue Rider Care
'Liberating Lives' Exhibition
Wed 16 - Sun 20 December 2009
The Mall Galleries (The Mall Galleries are on The Mall towards Admiralty Arch by Trafalgar Square.)
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'VISION'
Ilminster Arts Centre
Ilminster
13th Jan - 20th Feb
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Sue Rider Care
'Liberating Lives' Exhibition
Wed 16 - Sun 20 December 2009
The Mall Galleries (The Mall Galleries are on The Mall towards Admiralty Arch by Trafalgar Square.)
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AIR Gallery
The High St, Wells Somerset
14th Nov - Jan 16th
New pop up Gallery, the brainchild of Jan Ollis and Simon Ledson an excting new venture for arts on Somerset. Work by myself, Jan and Simon Ledson, plus many new and established artists and makers.
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The Cafe Gallery
Meeting House Arts Ctr Illminster.
18th October until 1st Nov 09
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Somerset Arts Week
19th September to 4th October 2009
Venue 1
Somerset College White Space
Venue 2
Artists 303 Open Competition
The Art Pavilion
The Royal Bath & West Showground
Shepton Mallet, Somerset
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The Millfield summer show
Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset
6th July - 8th August
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3rd Year Fine Art Degree Show
Brewhouse Gallery Taunton, 20th June - 27th June 2009
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Needhams Open Art Competiton
3rd April - 14th May 09, 'The Finalists'. Needhams Restaurant & Gallery, 186 Main Street, Witchford, Cambridgeshire.
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Rook Lane Arts
Saturday 21st March - Saturday 4th April 09, Artists 303, , Rook Lane Chapel, Bath Street Frome, Somerset.
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The Hot House,
27th February April 09, 'As you Like It' Exhibition of contemporary artwork. Somerset College, Taunton
Artistic Influences:
Peter Lanyon, Roger Hilton, Sandra Blow, Alfred Wallis, Cy Twombly, Richard Debenkorn, Syliva Plath, Antoni Tapies, Robert Rauschenberg, Degas, Van Gogh, Fiona Rae,
Artist Tags:
andrea rowbotham, acrylic on canvas, female painter, abstract paintings, british art, somerset
