Andy Whall

In my painting practice I attempt to migrate experiences of landscape into an experience of painting. I draw my experiences specifically from the landscape and mountains of the Pyrenees and the moorland and coastal landscapes of West Penwith, Cornwall. In working, I start from a memory or the memory of an experience. As I paint, ashes, bitumen and memory accumulate on the canvas, the process and experience of making the painting become paramount. The painting thus becomes a new experience, usurping the vestige of memory and imagination.

I have lived in Ariège since 2016. My current work is concerned with a phenomenological approach to the representation of mountain landscapes. During my postdoctoral period (PhD obtained in 2014) I lived in Cornwall, UK. During this period, my research and practice aimed to appropriate the experience of bouldering for art by considering how the physical demands of bouldering (a form of climbing) might inform concepts of visual representation and performance in art.

2014 Doctorate of Philosophy
Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

1989 MA
Fine Art, University of Wales, United Kingdom

1986 BA
Fine Art, Upper Second, University of Wales, United Kingdom

2018 Performing Mountains, Boulder Being, Leeds, March
2014 Being IN [landscape] Falmouth University, UK
2009 ANTI09, Festival, performance, Kuopio, Finland
2009 INSITE, Performance, Exchange Gallery, Penzance, UK
2007 Art Now Cornwall, Exhibition, Tate Gallery, St Ives, UK
2007 New St Ives School 1997-2007, Exhibition, UWIC, UK