Andrew Cole

Andrew Cole is a British artist currently living and working in Shanghai, who has previously lived in Oman, Thailand and South Africa. His work is generally abstract in nature, drawing on Minimalism, Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism, as well as the primacy of the idea for the conceptual artists. Although he is primarily a painter, he also works in digital media and installation.
While his overarching theme is humanity, he tends to concentrate on humans and human action as an absence rather than a presence, through traces left behind on ruined and damaged forms, rather than the human form itself, which, if it is used, tends to be abstracted, distorted or disrupted in some way. He explores the impact and processes of human thinking, either as an abstract conceptual space or through the lens of history, politics, philosophy, literature and so on as represented by marks on textured surfaces designed to evoke landscape, either natural or constructed, virtual or actual.
His work has been shown and collected in Europe, Africa and Asia.

"Frames of Mind" Group Exhibition at Deheart Centre (Shanghai China) May-June 2019
"Sort de la Nature Dans la Nature" Group Exhibition organised by FRONT at RenRen Gallery (Jiaxing, China) May 2019
"Opening Exhibition" Group Exhibition at MUSEu&m Creative Space (Shanghai, China) May 2019
"EASACI Content Online Exhibition 1st (experimental)” Online Group Exhibition organised by EASACI March 2019 (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YEUvA3oskFDcABmucdysPA)
“Experience Outside” Group Exhibition at Gui Zhi Gallery (Wanzhou, China) March 2019
“Visual Field” Exhibition organized by FRONT at the Tianjin Binhai Art Museum (Tianjin, China) December 1st – 16th 2018
“Free Voice” International Contemporary Art Exhibition organized by Yinuo Gallery (Shanghai, China) December 1st -12th 2018
“Unbounded” Online group exhibition organised by FRONT (China), October 2018 (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/IjHVXQbqn6efOo3fkUoZUQ)
Art Laozi Online Exhibition (China) from August 2018 (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3xlfD0BUfRrFkHlgpL5mx)
'On the Scene' group show at Yinuo Gallery (Shanghai, China) August to October 2018
Eighth Star International Art Union Contemporary Art Online Exhibition (Shanghai, China) - June 2018
'On The Way' group show at Rove Art (Beiji...