Andrea Coltman

“I don't know how to love a place...” Andrea Coltman

Andrea has always felt displaced. Belonging nowhere she is a nomadic observer drawn to capturing snapshots of transitional locations through painting.

Absorbed with the notion of places and spaces of transition Coltman has considered the viewable environment and how that relates to Modernism, Geometry, Edges of Portraiture, Architecture, Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism. Her works question places of constant transformation drawing on her own movements, and journeys that intersect with passageways. There are connections yet there is disconnect revealing a state of flux, the crossing of physical and metaphorical boundaries, discovering places of transformation whilst moving between material, physical and emotional states.

Pigments are applied, re-imagined situations and objects are then interrupted and often decontextualized by the addition of minimal bright colours combining figuration and abstraction. Andrea responds to the passer-by, the environment, linear forms including those from construction sites, factual newspaper headlines, re-imagined captions, as well as images from the tabloids.

Editing, re-editing, duplicating, interpreting, and re-interpreting t...

MFA Fine Art, UAL, Wimbledon College of Art 2017

BA Fine Art Practice, First Class Honours, University of Kent 2013

FDA Fine Art Practice, Distinction, University of Greenwich 2012

Upcoming Shows:

2018
R.S.V.P, no format Gallery, Deptford
Community Window, Canary Wharf. London
Edge of Ordinary, Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London

2018
The Locale, Glad Café, Glasgow
Drawing Open, no format Gallery, Deptford
Open Studios, The Koppel Project Hive
TAEAus18, Canberra, Australia
Threads, Dundas St Gallery, Edinburgh
Dame of the Hour, St James Wine Vaults, Bath
Threads, Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London
Liminality, Cass Arts, Glasgow
Unfold, Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London
SVAF Open, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks Selected and curated by Rebecca Fairman, Arthouse1
LVA Gallery, Heathrow, Middlesex

2017
Play, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks
SFSA Painting Open, no format Gallery, London
The Locale Annual Exhibition, Govanhill Baths, Glasgow
Evocativo, Art Gallery 37, Turin, Italy
Edge of the Ordinary, Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London
Sluice Biennal, PIY Paintlounge in conjunction with Hospital Rooms, Arch 11 Bohemia Place, London
Threads, Dundas Gallery, Edinburgh
Signal to Noise, Curated by Charley Peters, Arbyte, Hackney Wick
MFA Fine Art Degree Show, UAL Wimbledon College of Art, London
Threads, Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London
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