ARTIST’S BACKGROUND Andrew graduated with a first class degree and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Central England. In 1995 he had a portrait based solo exhibition titled “Sayonara Pet” at the National Portrait Gallery in London following a visit to Japan which was sponsored by B.P. He focused on the cradle to grave work ethic in the Japanese car manufacturing industry initially in Sunderland and shortly afterwards Tokyo and documented the workers and their families. He has exhibited in the B.P. Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery 10 times and has been shortlisted for the first prize on 4 different occasions. In 2006 Andrew took the £25,000 First Prize for his portrait of Lucian Freuds first wife “Kitty” The portrait is a triptych featuring Lucian Freud’s first wife - Kitty Garman, whom he painted many times, perhaps most memorably in “Girl with white dog” (1950-51) (Tate London). She used to live in a small village just outside of Andrew’s home town of Walsall and her family donated a their hugely impressive art collection to The New Art Gallery-Walsall , which is called the Garman Ryan Collection. Andrew has been working on portraits of Kitty for a small show at the gallery and this triptych is part of that series. The feel of this triptych was inspired by John Freeman’s “Face To Face” television interview series from the 1960s. Andrew has also won many other awards including The Japan Festival Award, The European Painting Award at the Frissiras Museum in Athens and the Emerson Group Award at the Manchester Academy of fine Art. In 1998 Andrew painted a portrait of The Rt Hon Tony Benn MP for the House of Commons collection and was also asked by the National Portrait Gallery to paint a portrait of Neil and Glenys Kinnock for their permanent collection which was unveiled in 2002. Andrew is currently painting Lord Chief Justice Woolf for the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. Channel 4 made a television documentary about Andrew and his work which was first screened in 2002. Andrew was invited by his American gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico to produce a body of work based upon the people of New Mexico. The Andreeva gallery hosted Andrew for two months in 2003 while he explored the region looking for interesting faces to paint. This culminated in his first solo exhibition in America during the Autumn of 2004 featuring all the faces that he met in the previous year from Native American Indians to Hippies, Cowboys and Vietnam veterans. Andrew has exhibited at commercial and public galleries and museums in London, Paris, Tokyo, New York, Athens and Santa Fe and has work in many public and private collections including, the National Portrait Gallery, The House of Commons, The Frissiras Museum, The New Art Gallery- Walsall, Birmingham Museum and |Art Gallery, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery.

Biography September 1987-June 1988 Stafford College of Art Foundation Course Diploma - Upper Pass September 1988 – June 1991 University of Central England Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons Illustration) – First Class September 1991-December 1992 University of Central England Master of Arts Illustration - Distinction EXHIBITIONS: GROUP EXHIBTIONS: 1992 June BP PORTRAIT AWARDS, National Portrait Gallery, London 1992 Dec FOUNDRY IMAGES, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall 1993 June BP PORTRAIT AWARDS, National Portrait Gallery, London 1993 July TALKING PIGEONS, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall 1994 Jan 135th MANCHESTER ACADEMY OPEN, Manchester City Art Gallery.Manchester 1994 Mar IN SEARCH OF THE BLACK COUNTRY, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall 1994 June BP PORTRAIT AWARDS, National Portrait Gallery, London 1995 Oct TREASURES FROM THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (6 month touring exhibition of Japan) Koriyama City Museum, Matsuzakaya Museum-Nagoya, Hiroshima Museum, Kita-Kyushu City Museum, Hankyu Museum-Kobe, Daimaru Museum-Tokyo. 1996 Feb 137th MANCHESTER ACADEMY OPEN, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester 1996 July BP PORTRAIT AWARDS, National Portrait Gallery London 1996 Dec 20 BRITISH ARTISTS, The Cork Street Gallery, London 1996 GROUP SHOW Dec Philips Contemporary Art, Manchester 1997 June ROYAL BIRMINGHAM SOCIETY OF ARTISTS, RBSA Gallery, Birmingham 1997 Sept ROYAL OVER-SEAS LEAGUE 14th ANNUAL OPEN COMPETITION 1997, Over-Seas House, London – (and tour, 1997 Oct- Edinburgh College of Art) 1997 Sept GROUP SHOW , Le Capitole – La Defenise Gallery, Paris 1998 April START 2 – Me and You, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery , Walsall 1999 June BP PORTRAIT AWARDS, National Portrait Gallery, London 2000 June BP PORTRAIT AWARDS, National Portrait Gallery, London 2000 June GROUP SHOW, The Air Gallery, London 2000 Aug LABOUR INTENSIVE, The City Gallery, Leicester 2000 Nov FACE TO FACE, The Shire Hall Gallery, Stafford 2000 Nov IN MEMORIAM, The New Art Gallery, Walsall 2001 Sept GROUP SHOW, Philips Contemporary Art, Manchester 2001 Dec CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION, Philips Contemporary Art, Manchester 2002 Jan ART 2002 (BUSINESS DESIGN CENTRE) , London 2002 Feb EIDETIC (Photorealism), Brit Art Gallery, London 2002 April NEW ACQUISITIONS, National Portrait Gallery, London 2002 Jun BP PORTRAIT AWARDS, National Portrait Gallery, London 2002 Oct THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR, Pier 97, New York 2002Dec CHRISTMAS SHOW, Philips Contemporary Art, Manchester 2003Mar BRIT ART AT SELFRIDGES, Brit Art, London 2003Apr MAKING PORTRAITS, Bodelwyddan Castle, N.P.G. (Wales) 2003Jun ART LONDON, Jonathan Cooper/Park Walk Gallery, London 2003 Dec EUROPEAN PAINTING AWARDS, Frissiras Museum, Athens 2004 Jan MAKING FACES, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery /N.P.G., Sunderland 2004Apr GROUP SHOW, Philips Contemporary Art, Manchester 2004 Jun BP PORTRAIT AWARD, National Portrait Gallery, London 2005 April FRANKFURT ART FAIR, Philips Contemporary Art, Frankfurt 2005 Jun BP PORTRAIT AWARD, National Portrait Gallery, London 2006 Mar THE WALES PORTRAIT AWARD, Bodelwyddan Castle and tour, Wales 2006 Mar 150th ANNIVERSARY POSTCARD EXHIBITION, National Portrait Gallery, London 2006 Feb ANTHROPOGEOGRAPHY 3, Frissiras Museum, Athens 2006 Jun BP PORTRAIT AWARD , National Portrait Gallery, London SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1995 June SAYONARA PET: FROM SUNDERLAND TO TOKYO AT THE NISSAN CAR FACTORIES, (Sponsored by BP)National Portrait Gallery London(& Tour) 1995 Oct SAYONARA PET: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen 1996 Sept SAYONARA PET: Walsall Museum and Art Gallery,Walsall 2004 Aug FACES OF NEW MEXICO, Andreeva Fine Art, Santa Fe, U.S.A 2006 Dec SOLO SHOW, Andreeva Fine Art, Santa Fe, USA 2007 May KITTY, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, Walsall AWARDS: LOUISA ANNE RYLAND AWARD – University of Central England EMERSON GROUP AWARD – Manchester Academy of Fine Art (COMMENDED) BP PORTRAIT AWARD 1994 – National Portrait Gallery BP TRAVEL AWARD 1994 (4 weeks painting study in Japan) – National Portrait Gallery SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE ARTS SPONSORSHIP – South Staffordshire County Council THE JAPAN FESTIVAL AWARDS 1997(VISUAL ARTS) – The Japan Festival Awards BP PORTRAIT AWARDS 1999 ( 3RD Prize) – National Portrait Gallery BP PORTRAIT AWARD 2000 (COMMENDED) – National Portrait Gallery (3RD PRIZE) THE EUROPEAN PAINTING AWARD, 2003- Frissiras Museum, Athens. (FIRST PRIZE) BP PORTRAIT AWARD 2006 – National Portrait Gallery, London PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: The National Portrait Gallery Jersey Museum and Art Gallery Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery Royal Over-Seas League The House of Commons The Santa Fe Institute The New Art Gallery, Walsall Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Frissiras Museum The Honourable Society of The Inner Temple The Old Bailey NOTABLE COMMISSIONS: Rt Hon. Tony Benn MP – House of Commons Neil and Glenys Kinnock – National Portrait Gallery Sir Patrick Cormack FSA MP – House of Commons Sir Clifford Boulton – House of Commons Sir Colin Imray – Royal Over-Seas League Professor Carlos Brebbia – Wessex Institute of Technology Murry Gellman (Nobel piece prize winning scientist) – Santa Fe Institute, USA Cormack McCarthy – Author – Santa Fe Institute, USA Lord Chief Justice Woolf – The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple His Honour Judge Michael Hyam – The Old Bailey PUBLICATIONS: Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery – National Portrait Gallery Publications (1995) Tony Benn, A Political Life – Continuum (2001) IBSN 0 8264 5699 5 BP Portrait Award 1990-2001 – NPG Publications (2001) IBSN 1 85514 3283 BP Portrait Award 2003 – NPG Publications (2003) IBSN 1 85514 5057 Frissiras Contemporary European Painting Award – Frissiras Museum (2003) BP Portrait Award 2004 – NPG Publications (2004) IBSN 1 85514 3445 Never to be Forgotten, Joe Miere - Channel Island Publishing (2004) IBSN 09542 669 8 6 BP Portrait Award 2005 – NPG Publications (2005) IBSN 1 85514 365 8 Wales Portrait Award (2006) IBSN 1 900941 90 2 The Portrait Now, Sandy Nairne/Sarah Howgate – NPG Publications (2006) IBSN 10: 1 85514 358 5 Statement ARTISTS STATEMENT I am a figurative realist painter and predominantly specialise in portraiture. I work in a highly detailed, intensely realistic manner and aim for an absolutely pure and objective likeness. Specific environments and narrative objects are often extremely important ingredients to my portraits as they can help to reflect and reinforce the sitters identity. I seek to convey people in the most understanding, intimate and sympathetic way that I can .